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		<title>Sundance film features leading man with Down syndrome</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From EITB.com: Among the featured offerings at this year&#8217;s Sundance Film Festival is Yo, TambiÃ©n (Me, Too), a Spanish film about a college-educated man with Down syndrome who falls in love with his free-spirited co-worker. The film explores themes of conformity and difference, and challenges public perceptions about the capabilities and needs of people with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dad&#8217;s op-ed: &#8216;Normalizing&#8217; autism is a mixed blessing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Isolation, scarce resources are still big problems Marketers of specious miracle cures woo desperate parents Michael Fitzpatrick, a London doctor, says autism has become better known and accepted in the 15 years since his son was diagnosed with the condition. But has increased awareness improved the quality of his son&#8217;s life? Not really, he says. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book probes treatments aimed at making kids &#8216;normal&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["Normal at Any Cost"]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Efforts of well-meaning doctors, parents often had tragic results, authors find In the San Francisco Chronicle, Heidi Benson reviews &#8220;Normal at Any Cost: Tall Girls, Short Boys, and the Medical Industry&#8217;s Quest to Manipulate Height.&#8221; Authors Susan Cohen and Christine Cosgrove trace the history of height manipulation over the decades, interviewing men and women whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Autism culture&#8217; movement seeks acceptance, not cure</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/04/30/autism-acceptance-2-15362/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;I am not a puzzle, I am a person&#8217; By Elizabeth Svoboda in Salon.com: A growing group of advocates say people with autism should be valued and celebrated for their uniqueness, not aggressively treated in hopes that they will become &#8220;normal.&#8221; Proponents are skeptical of therapies that force people with autism to behave like typical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British actress says her CP is just a part of her</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/03/03/francesca-martinez-10861/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the death of Ivan Cameron, British comedian and actress Francesca Martinez reflects in the  [UK] Telegraph on her life with cerebral palsy. She says her disability is &#8220;like hair color, eye color, height or weight, just another arbitrary feature that those around you cease to focus on and which, ultimately, becomes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;How&#8217;s Your News?&#8217; opens window on an unfamiliar world</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/02/20/hows-your-news-opens-window-10285/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Huffington Post, James Moore introduces family friend Jeremy Vest, left, one of the hosts on MTV&#8217;s new show &#8220;How&#8217;s Your News?&#8221; All the show&#8217;s hosts have disabilities of one kind or another. Jeremy&#8217;s is Williams syndrome. An excerpt: Most of us do not have a handicapped person in our lives and, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The tyranny of normal</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/03/22/the-tyranny-of-normal-1802/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 23:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asperger's]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an interview on Wisconsin Public Radio, author Jonathan Mooney says our culture&#8217;s concept of normal is damaging to everyone, not just people who are identified as different. Mooney, who had dyslexia and didn&#8217;t learn to read until he was twelve, is the author of &#8220;The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal.&#8221; His book documents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Baby Miracle&#8217; brought to Florida for surgery</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2008/02/28/baby-miracle-brought-to-florida-for-surgery-1578/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Tampa Tribune, USA Today: A baby girl who was born with severe deformities in Samoa and refused medical treatment in New Zealand has been brought to Florida for surgery with the help of THORN Ministries, an American faith-based group. Miracletina Nanai, also known as &#8216;Baby Miracle,&#8216; is now six months old. (At left, [...]]]></description>
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