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	<title>Claudia Wallis on Autism</title>
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		<title>Infertility and Autism Risk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does being treated for infertility raise the risk that your child will have an autism spectrum disorder? A number of mothers I have interviewed have voiced this concern. Now two new studies&#8211;one that looks at in vitro fertilization and the other at ovulation-stimulating drugs like Clomid&#8211;suggest that it may be so. These are preliminary studies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://claudiawallis.com/autism/?p=404</link>
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		<title>What Treatment to Choose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With more than 400 kinds of treatment available for autism, ranging from traditional behavioral therapy to restrictive diets to extreme options like chelation and hyperbaric oxygen, parents often find it hard to know what choices to make for a child on the spectrum. And even after a family commits to an intervention and sees progress, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://claudiawallis.com/autism/?p=393</link>
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		<title>Blue Lights for Autism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blue lights blazed at landmark buildings, bridges, museums and other notable spots in 25 U.S. cities and 15  countries to mark Autism Awareness Day on April 1 and 2,  kicking off April as Autism Awareness month. The &#8220;Light It Up Blue&#8221; event is the project of the research and advocacy group Autism Speaks. Among the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://claudiawallis.com/autism/?p=384</link>
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		<title>Temple Grandin, the Movie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Temple Grandin is America’s best-known autistic person, and she’s about to become much more famous. On February 6, HBO debuts a feature film that stars Claire Danes as the gawky, socially impaired but brilliant animal scientist who, despite her disability—or actually because of it—has achieved enormous success in two arenas: as designer of humane [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://claudiawallis.com/autism/?p=371</link>
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		<title>Clusters in California</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two new studies take a look at what appear to be unusually high concentrations of children with autism in certain parts of California.
The first study, published in the journal Autism Research by a team from the University of California, Davis, identified ten autism hotspots or clusters in the Los Angeles and San Francisco regions, where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://claudiawallis.com/autism/?p=365</link>
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		<title>A Promising Intervention For Toddlers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, autism was rarely detected before ages 3 or 4. Now, thanks to growing awareness and widespread screening at 18 and 24 months, more children with autism are being identified when they are toddlers. But for all the emphasis on early detection, very little research exists on how to intervene effectively for children [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://claudiawallis.com/autism/?p=357</link>
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		<title>Farewell to Asperger&#8217;s?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ One of the most fascinating conditions known to psychiatry may be headed for obsolescence. Asperger&#8217;s Syndrome will likely be folded into the more general category of Autism Spectrum Disorders in the next edition of the DSM&#8211;psychiatry&#8217;s diagnostic manual. PDD-NOS will likely share its fate.
The reason? “Asperger’s means a lot of different things to different [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://claudiawallis.com/autism/?p=347</link>
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		<title>Fear and Fundraising in Autism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A fascinating controversy has erupted in the autism community over a new video produced for Autism Speaks. The slickly produced video, written by songwriter Billy Mann and directed by Academy Award-winning director Alfonso Cuarón, carries an ominous voice-over declaring that &#8220;I am Autism&#8230; I know where you live&#8230; I work faster than pediatric AIDS, cancer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://claudiawallis.com/autism/?p=335</link>
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		<title>The One Percent Convergence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Today, the U.S. government updated its official estimate of autism prevalence to 1 out of 100 children, up from the 2007 estimate of 1 in 150. The figure is based both on the latest data collected by CDC&#8217;s  intensive ADDM monitoring network and on a large, but less rigorous telephone survey of more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://claudiawallis.com/autism/?p=316</link>
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		<title>Is Autism Just as Common in Adults?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Among the many great mysteries of autism is this: Where are all the adults with the disorder? In California, for instance, about 80% of people identified as having an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are 18 or under. Studies by the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) indicate that about 1 in 150 children in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://claudiawallis.com/autism/?p=312</link>
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