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		<title>Paul K. Longmore, disability advocate and historian, was 64</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Shapiro, writing on NPR&#8217;s &#8216;Shots&#8217; health blog, salutes the legacy of disability advocate, scholar and historian Paul K. Longmore, who died Monday at the age of 64. Longmore was a professor of history and director of the Institute on Disability at San Francisco State University. He lived with complications of polio contracted when he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clara Claiborne Park, 86; Author raised awareness of autism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Berkshire [MA] Eagle: Clara Claiborne Park, a college English instructor who wrote deeply personal and poetic books about her quest to understand her daughter&#8217;s autism, has died at the age of 86. She was regarded as an international leader in advocating on behalf of people with disabilities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Narrators, characters with autism add something extra</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/04/11/book-review-autismr-29147/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As people with autism spectrum disorders take a more prominent place in society, Los Angeles Times reviewer Sonja Bolle finds a crop of books for kids and young adults that explore their world. These books can help, she says, by perhaps giving us all a better sense of the variety of human experience. Among her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinion: It&#8217;s time to stop saying &#8216;retard&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/02/23/opinion-istop-saying-retard-28501/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg says the word &#8220;retarded&#8221; may have started out as a clinical term, but it has been twisted into a taunt over the past half century and should be put to rest. Were developmentally disabled people secure in the mainstream alongside the Irish and accountants, we could happily debate the cultural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elementary, my dear</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing the New York Times &#8216;Diagnosis&#8217; column,  Dr. Lisa Sanders ponders whether Sherlock Holmes might have had Asperger&#8217;s syndrome. The fictional private eye, to be featured in an upcoming film starring Robert Downey Jr., had many symptoms of the syndrome, she says, including an obsessive focus on narrow subjects, mood swings and an apparent inability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book: Howie Mandel on OCD, ADHD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From USA Today: Comedian Howie Mandel answers questions about his new book, &#8220;Here&#8217;s the Deal: Don&#8217;t Touch Me&#8221; , arriving in stores today. The book details his lifelong struggle with obsessive-compulsive disorder and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. An excerpt: Q: In your book, you say any public restroom freaks you out because of the germ factor. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excerpt from &#8216;Going Rogue&#8217;: Sarah Palin on life with Trig</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The [UK] Sunday Times carries an excerpt from Sarah Palin&#8217;s memoir in which she describes the &#8220;the problems and the joy of living with her special needs son.&#8221; &#8220;Did I have enough love and compassion in me to do this? Don&#8217;t you have to be wired a little differently to be gifted with the ability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mom&#8217;s book honors boy who fought disease, sought peace</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/11/03/messenger-jeni-stepanek-24946/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Baltimore Sun, Good Morning America, Fox News and elsewhere: Mattie Stepanek was a boy with muscular dystrophy who wrote six best-selling books and inspired millions with his messages of hope and peace. He died five years ago just short of his fourteenth birthday. Now his mother Jeni Stepanek, 50, has written a book [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Journalist Tim Page explores Asperger&#8217;s from the inside out</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/31/tim-page-24874/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Washington Post: Tim Page, author of &#8220;Parallel Play: Growing Up with Undiagnosed Asperger&#8217;s&#8221; and a Pulitzer Prize winning music critic, answers readers&#8217; questions about Asperger&#8217;s syndrome and its effect on his life. Some excerpts: &#8220;The diagnosis was helpful in a lot of ways &#8212; mostly in explaining some of the things that had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books: Music critic finds relief in Asperger&#8217;s diagnosis</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/17/music-critic-24041/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From &#8220;Fresh Air&#8221; on National Public Radio: Music critic Tim Page didn&#8217;t find out that he had Asperger&#8217;s syndrome until he was 45, three years after winning the Pulitzer Prize. He writes in his new memoir, &#8220;Parallel Play: Life As An Outsider,&#8221; that the diagnosis helped him to accept parts of his nature that were [...]]]></description>
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