Article: Comerica Park to Hold Fourth Annual Autism Awareness Day on September 9, 2008 hosted by Jack's Place for Autism.

Article: Continental Sponsors Jack's Place for Autism Charity at 2007 Dream Cruise.
PR Newswire;  August 17, 2007 ;     700+ words ......supporting local charity Jack's Place for Autism's dream to build a center for...Continental has donated space to Jack's Place for Autism to raise awareness and funds...also made a donation to Jack's Place for Autism. Continental makes safety devices...

Article: Jack's Place for Autism to Bring Sports Celebrities and Unique Auction Items for its Annual 'Detroit Teams Up for Autism' Fundraiser February 9.
PR Newswire;  January 15, 2008 ;     508 words ......leading charity for autism, Jack's Place for Autism, will be holding its annual major...President and Founder of Jack's Place for Autism. Attendance is limited to 500...still available at $3,000. Jack's Place for Autism February 9 Fundraiser Major sponsors...

Article: Making Peace With Autism: One Family's Story of Struggle, Discovery, and Unexpected Gifts.(Book review)
Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities;  June 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ......live with and adapt to the reality of having a child with autism. Once the couple began to imagine what their child was...not seeking help earlier. However, through meetings with autism support groups, Ms. Senator started to feel inspired and...school. She offers steps that parents of children with ...

Article: Rare No More; With Research Up and Stigma Down, Autism Sheds More of Its Mystery
The Washington Post;  February 27, 2007 ;     700+ words ......ages 3 to 22 who had been given the official coding for autism in the Maryland public school systems, a rate of 1 in...most of the illnesses psychiatrists treat, you cannot see autism under a microscope or discover it through a lab test...there was little agreement about what was and was not autism. Even ...

Article: U.S. Autism diagnosis increases
Indianapolis Recorder;  March 25, 2005 ;     645 words ......Indianapolis Recorder 03-25-2005 In 1998, the prevalence of autism was reported to be 91 per 100,000 in the general population...epidemiologists reported in the March issue of Pediatrics. Autism is a complex developmental disability that affects an...many as 1.5 million Americans -- children and adults have ...

Article: Autism's cell off: neural losses appear in boys, men with disorder.
Science News;  August 5, 2006 ;     462 words ......Previous studies of six preserved brains of individuals with autism had hinted at a lack of amygdala neurons, compared with the brains of people without autism. However, that work identified amygdala areas with low...Moreover, most of those brains came from people who had both autism and epilepsy, which ...

Article: Autism more common than first thought
Yorkshire Post;  July 9, 2007 ;     530 words ......specialist autism schools, even special needs academies and autism units equipped with sensory rooms in mainstream primary...to provide labour market opportunities for people with autism who are able to work." Benet Middleton, from the National...was an urgent need for a clear Government strategy on ...

Article: Optimizing metabolism: The new understanding of autism underscores the promise of integrative treatments such as nutrition.(Report)
Townsend Letter;  July 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ......Implications for Clinical Practice Ideally, each patient with autism should undergo a comprehensive assessment, which reasonably...treated per standard clinical guidelines, not specific to autism. Reducing the infectious burden of disease may potentially improve autism. Here's the salient question; If ...

Article: Camp promotes autism awareness, education
Indianapolis Recorder;  July 27, 2001 ;     700+ words ......educational, and vocational fields, remain unaware of how autism affects people and how they can effectively work with individuals with autism, according to Arc of Indiana officials. Kim Peak, an individual with autism and one of the models that Dustin Hoffman used in his...said. "When I started the ...

Article: Working for a living Workplace awareness helps those with autism become valued employees
The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  March 31, 2009 ;     700+ words ......over and may have trouble changing their daily routine. Autism symptoms range from profound to mild. People with mild...adults with Asperger Syndrome, a higher-functioning form of autism. Strategies to help workers with autism Strategies to help people with autism in the work place include: ...

Article: When autism is made too easy.(BOOKS)
The Washington Times;  November 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Indiana congressman Dan Burton to investigate the cause of autism, John Tierney, a congressman from Massachusetts, asked...questionable modern-day medicine men offering alleged autism cures have become the chief stockholders in this enterprise...the child and, hence, the logic goes, the incidence of ...

Article: Help Virginia's children who have autism.(Local)
The Virginian Pilot;  January 13, 2009 ;     683 words ......that states early detection and early intervention for autism is critical to the long-term functioning of individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders. If, in effect, you can reach into...grandparents and friends all set out to find the best autism services available. This is when the stark reality ...

Article: Detection of autism in pre-school children. What's needed?
Community Practitioner;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS Abstract Studies indicate that early diagnosis...to better long term outcomes for pre-school children with autism. It enables development of communication skills and helps...visitors are in an ideal position to identify features of autism in the pre-school population. They are then ...

Article: Autism on-line
Jerusalem Post;  October 12, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Jerusalem Post 10-12-2001 Headline: Autism on-line Byline: Hannah Brown Edition...headline, chances are you have a child with autism or know someone who does. Remember, the Internet is a good place to acquire a general background on the subject of autism, not to discover the secret of a ...