Autism affected artists assisted by PARTnerships!

People like to expresses themselves through their art and for many artists like Kathy Donahue, art is much more than an option to put together a living, it is an option for them to treat their passions. The same holds true for those affected with autism, a development disability. Kathy has proved that even those who are afflicted by autism can be successful in their careers. A glance at the artwork prepared by her will give no clues that she has got autism. A program known as PARTnerships is enabling…

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Oxygen For Autism TREATMENT

Ivanhoe Newswire – There’s no cure for autism and treatments are experimental at best; but one new treatment is bringing hope to families desperate for any improvement they can get. Carman Inclan’s son Michael is four. Just like any other child, he reads, plays with toys and loves to use the computer; but Michael isn’t like other four-year-olds. “The greatest struggle is not knowing if he will be able to say when he’s older that he’s happy,” Carmen told Ivanhoe. “It’s devastation — fear.” Everything he’s able to do now…

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Does vaccination cause Autism?

No body knows the answer to a question that has been haunting parents for close to a decade. There are some who doubt that vaccinations can cause autism. This is a fuzzy query because nobody knows for sure at the moment. Nowadays children have to take immunizations for mumps, measles and hepatitis  before they are allowed to join public schools. Many people are of the opinion that these vaccinations are associated to the increase of another grim diagnosis, namely, autism. According to some schools of thought, it was assumed that…

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Teenager defies autism to graduate high school.

The parents of Eric Hollingsworth had never imagined in their wildest dreams that he would graduate, but he is going to prove them wrong. On Monday, the 20th of June 2008, he will be graduating. Seventeen years ago, when he was just 2 years old, Eric was suffering from severe autism and according to the doctors attending him, this disease would thwart him from either talking or even attending school. Obviously, this news had depressed his parents. Today, the 19 years old is finishing his last days in class. A…

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Treating autism through oxygen

H-BOT, commonly known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy is giving hope to autism patients. As of date, despite many experimental treatments there is no guaranteed method of curing autism. H-BOT which has been used to cure scuba divers is being tried on an experimental basis on kids affected with this deadly disease and the end results of the trials look encouraging. Autism is a disease which is considered to be worse that both AIDS and cancer. In this method of treatment, kids are placed within a special chamber where they are…

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Major conference on Autism

More than 6 decades and a half have passed since the word autism was used by Leo Kanner to identify precise traits in a group of children which was hardly known to the public in general. Nowadays this term is being widely discussed by the media. In fact these reports by the media along with a resolution passed by the United Nations which marks the 2nd of April as an annual World Autism Awareness Day will go a long way to highlight this variety of disorder before the general public….

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Oxygen For Autism

TAMPA, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) — There’s no cure for autism and treatments are experimental at best; but one new treatment is bringing hope to families desperate for any improvement they can get. Carman Inclan’s son Michael is four. Just like any other child, he reads, plays with toys and loves to use the computer; but Michael isn’t like other four-year-olds. “The greatest struggle is not knowing if he will be able to say when he’s older that he’s happy,” Carmen told Ivanhoe. “It’s devastation — fear.” Everything he’s able to…

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What is Autism?

Autism is a brain development disorder that inhibits a child from having a normal social life. Autistic children tend to develop a restricted and repetitive behavior, all starting before the age of three. Generally, autistic children are divided in two categories of autistic disorders, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), which is rather a milder case of autism, and Asperger syndrome. Autism has a strong genetic basis, and although it is unclear how much impact do genetic disorders have on autism- is it better explained by multigene interactions or by rare mutations….

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Brain study suggests way to measure, treat autism.

Researchers have pinpointed subtle deficits in the brains of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) that they say could aid more precise diagnoses and perhaps improve treatment of ASD. The researchers discovered characteristic patterns of brain activity in people with ASD that reflect an inability to perceive themselves as social creatures. P. Read Montague and colleagues published their findings in the February 7, 2008, issue of the journal Neuron, published by Cell Press. Their experiments involved asking groups of high-functioning people with ASD and normal people to play a “social…

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