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Bowie Baysox Host 2nd Autism Awareness Night

Monday, August 4th, 2008

Baysox Host Second Annual Autism Awareness Night
Baysox.com
August 4, 2008 - The Bowie Baysox, Class AA affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles, is proud to host the second annual Autism Awareness Night at Prince George’s Stadium on Friday, August 8. Gates will open at 6 p.m. and the Baysox will take the field to take on the […]

Loudoun County Autism Summit

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Loudoun Families Mobilize to Cover Treatment for Autism
Sydney Wilmer | LoudounExtra.com | Washington Post
Parents of autistic children packed a meeting Monday evening at Lansdowne on the Potomac to rally support for legislation that would ease the disability’s financial burden on families.
Appearing at an event billed as the Loudoun County Autism Summit, they spoke about the […]

Michael Savage, Autism Expert

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Savage on autism: “A fraud, a racket. … In 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out”
Media Matters
On the July 16 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage claimed that autism is “[a] fraud, a racket.” Savage went on to say, “I’ll tell you […]

Support?

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Autism: Where’s the Support?
Ann Bauer | Washington Post | Opinion
There is a family down the street whom I envy.
I’ve never met them. They live in a two-story white house — a mother, a father and their grown son. Outside is a trimmed yard with rosebushes and a wooden arbor where the men work on weekends.
The […]

PA Passes Autism Bill

Friday, July 11th, 2008

Autism law praised as model for other states
Liz Hayes | Valley News Dispatch | Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Autism advocates are hailing the long-awaited passage of a state bill that requires insurance companies to start covering autism treatments next July.
House Bill 1150 — named for the estimated 1 in 150 children now diagnosed with the neurological disorder […]

Boy Wanders Away From Camp onto Rt. 100

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

People often think that we parents of kids with autism are too overprotective…if we are then this is why.
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Wandering boy stirs camp concerns
Larry Carson | Baltimore Sun
Kristen Detwiler had just merged onto busy Route 100 in Ellicott City one afternoon last week when she saw a shocking sight: Her 7-year-old autistic son was running against […]

College

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Autistic students get help navigating college life
Melissa Kossler Dutton | Associated Press | USA Today
When Dan Hackett started college, he didn’t make the grades he knew he could.
Hackett, who has Asperger’s syndrome, found at the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh that some of his symptoms were holding him back. He had difficulty organizing […]

Fathering Autism

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Fathering Autism | A Scientist Wrestles With the Realities of His Daughter’s Illness
Shankar Vedantam | Washington Post
In Bethesda, a 15-year-old girl talks to her television set. Often, she seems more connected to the tube’s ghostly embrace than to her own father, mother, brothers and sister. She flushes household items down the toilet. She has no […]

Complex Care Program

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Complex Care Program
Children’s National Medical Center
The Complex Care Program (CCP) at Children’s National Medical Center has been providing a “medical home” for children and youth with special health care needs since 2002. A “medical home” is defined as family-centered, coordinated, compassionate, comprehensive, and continuous care for children with special health care needs.

New Device To Help Find Lost Children

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

New Device Helps Find Lost Autistic Children
MyFoxDC.com
An estimated 1 in 150 children is diagnosed with autism and many parents have experienced the frightening reality of losing a child with autism, even if just for a few minutes. A new technology is already being used to find and save people with autism. Fox 5’s Will Thomas […]

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