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High-tech company Interbots are working with the Autism Center of Pittsburgh to supply some robot style therapy to children.
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A stick figure drawn by an autistic child and identified as "me" is shooting a gun at the head of another stick figure, identified as "hartman," a reference to one of the boy's teachers. A tombstone bearing the letters "R.I.P. can also be seen.
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Gina Marie Incandela didn’t speak until she was 3-years-old, and by the age of 7 she's become a talented singer. She gave a brilliant rendition of the national anthem during the playoffs between the Orlando Magic and Boston Celtics.
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As if John and Kelly Preston haven't had enough tragedy, it turns out they were victimized in the Bahamas by people in the government.
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Gary McKinnon is autistic. He hacked into U.S. military systems in 2001 and 2002 and faced extradition to the U.S. and a lengthy prison term.
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Hamilton police are looking for Austin Large, 13. Austin is believed to be with his father Elias Large. The two left on Friday for a fishing trip.
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John LeSieur has created a new Web Browser for autistic kids so his grandson could enjoy the Internet. The Zac Browser For Autistic Children is free and named after the child it was designed for, his grandson Zackary.
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Orange County sheriff's deputies on Tuesday defended their decision to use a stun gun on a 15-year-old autistic boy who ran away from his parents and later dashed into traffic.
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Their public announcement of a desire to have another baby has spawned discussion regarding the couples denial of their 14 year old son Jett's apparent autism. Their religious beliefs will not allow them to acknowledge such a condition in their son.
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A northern Ontario M. P. P. continues to pursue the question of how much it has cost the Ontario government to fight a class-action lawsuit against parents of autistic children.
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Mothers of autistic children earn 56 percent less on average than the mothers of children with no health limitations.
 A Saint John mother says she felt pressured by teachers and school administrators to double her autistic son's Ritalin dose to keep him in school.
 Canadian researchers have carried out the first study of a play-based therapy program that has had some remarkable success in drawing some autistic children out of their solitary worlds. The CBC's Ioanna Roumeliotis offers a moving look inside floortime therapy.
 A new book tells the story of an autistic Toronto teenager who was born without the ability to speak out loud, who lived for years having her voice unknown to the world until she began to convey her thoughts through a computer.
A New Jersey dad who suspected something was "horrifyingly wrong" at school when his autistic son began acting violently sent his son to school with a digital recorder and discovered teachers verbally abusing him.
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ABOUT J. THOMAS SHAW J. Thomas Shaw was born in Quincy, Illinois, and attended the University of Oklahoma and...
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