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		<title>Psychologist did pioneering work in autism</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/08/25/lovaas-obit-30085/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times: Ole Ivar Lovaas, a UCLA psychologist who developed one of the most widely used therapies for children with autism, has died at the age of 83.  Dr. Lovaas was the first researcher to suggest that autism can be treated. He is credited with helping to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>District pays $5 million in alleged abuse of students with autism</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/06/04/5-million-settlement-29661/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Philadelphia Inquirer: A Pennsylvania school district has agreed to pay a $5 million settlement in response to a federal civil rights suit filed by parents who said their children with autism had been tied to chairs with bungee cords and duct tape. Defendants in the lawsuit, which included the Scranton-area school district as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;What would you do?&#8217; Reactions to staged abuse of clerk with DS</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/05/20/what-would-you-doabuse-of-clerk-with-ds-29593/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 06:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Down syndrome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a segment of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;What Would You Do?&#8221; that aired Wednesday, customers in a Brooklyn grocery store found themselves trapped in a checkout line behind rude shoppers who berated a bagger with Down syndrome. The customers didn&#8217;t know that the clerk and the rude shoppers were all actors. Hidden cameras recorded everyone&#8217;s reactions to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feds: Company cheated workers, violated ADA in Atalissa case</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/05/13/ada-violations-atalissa-case-29580/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 04:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Des Moines Register, AP/Bloomberg Businessweek: A federal agency has concluded that a Texas company cheated its workers with disabilities out of at least $1 million, subjected them to abuse and humiliation, and committed numerous major violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The company, Henry&#8217;s Turkey Service, had housed at least 65 men [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NJ to create registry of abusive caregivers</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/05/04/nj-abusive-caregivers-29518/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 16:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From NJ.com: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has signed legislation designed to identify caregivers who neglect or exploit people with disabilities under their care. The measure will create a statewide registry, as well as an emergency hotline for reports of suspected abuse. It follows the 2008  death of Tara O&#8217;Leary, a 28-year-old woman with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: Too many adoptive families are kept in the dark</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/17/opinion-too-many-adoptive-families-are-kept-in-the-dark-29244/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the New York Times&#8217; Room for Debate blog, law professor David Smolin says the case of the boy who was sent back to Russia by his adoptive mother highlights the risks inherent in foreign adoptions. Many of these children, he says, have serious psychological, behavioral, cognitive and educational issues, the legacy of traumatic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feds: Many states don&#8217;t regulate seclusion, restraint in schools</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/25/many-states-dont-regulate-seclusion-restraint-in-schools-28640/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/25/many-states-dont-regulate-seclusion-restraint-in-schools-28640/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From AP/Los Angeles Times: A report from the U.S. Department of Education this weeks shows that 19 states do not in any way regulate their schools&#8217; use of seclusion and restraints on misbehaving students. And even though 31 states do have some type of policy, the report found, many are weak and do not clearly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google execs convicted over bullying video</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/24/google-execs-convicted-28566/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:57:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Company sees threat to free speech on the Internet From Reuters/New York Times, AP/Forbes.com, CNN: A judge in Milan has found three Google executives guilty of criminal privacy violation charges for allowing a cellphone video of the bullying of an Italian youth to be displayed on a company website in 2006. Press reports said the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>States do little to stop restraint of students with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/14/school-restraints-26618/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From USA Today: In hearings seven months ago, congressional investigators disclosed evidence of widespread restraint and seclusion of students by school staff around the country, most of it involving students with disabilities. Some of the cases ended in death. Since the hearings, advocates say, only a handful of states have moved to restrict or regulate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill aims to protect students from abuse in schools</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/09/seclusion-restraint-bill-26431/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/09/seclusion-restraint-bill-26431/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Hartford Courant, Contra Costa [CA] Times, NPR, Muskegon [MI] Chronicle, press release from the House Education and Labor Committee: A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers has introduced legislation aimed at protecting students in the nation&#8217;s schools from harmful uses of restraint and seclusion. The legislation follows congressional hearings and a report by the Government [...]]]></description>
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