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		<title>Heroes? Victims? Or just plain parents &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/10/13/heroes-victims-parent-30237/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Down syndrome]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do parents of kids with disabilities deserve admiration? Pity? Are they courageous? Self-important? Preachy? The public debate on these weighty topics has been raging for the past month over at the New York Times&#8217; Motherlode blog site, and shows no signs of letting up. It all started when Amy Julia Becker wrote a guest blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Industrial chemical marketed for use on kids with autism</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/01/18/industrial-chemical-autism-27206/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Created for use in mining, compound now sold as dietary supplement Parents desperate to treat autism in their children are turning to an industrial chemical that has not been proven safe or effective for use in humans, the Chicago Tribune reports. Called OSR#1, the substance is being marketed as a dietary supplement by Boyd Haley, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infant with disabilities is subject of dark off-Broadway comedy</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/01/14/off-broadway-comedy-27135/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writer was &#8216;inspired by the most horrible thought she ever had,&#8217; says New York Magazine Emmy-winning Rachel Axler made her off-Broadway debut this week with Smudge, a dark comedy about a couple who give birth to a child with one eye, missing limbs and multiple disabilities. In an interview with New York Magazine, Axler says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court to decide: Does disability make mom an unfit parent?</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2010/01/05/custody-disability-26936/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Lisa Belkin in the New York Times Motherlode blog: Kaney O&#8217;Neill, an Illinois mom who was injured in a fall a decade ago, is locked in a custody battle with the father of her 5-month-old son. David Trais is arguing that O&#8217;Neill is not fit to have custody of the boy because she is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Probe: Many &#8216;treatments&#8217; for autism are risky, unproven</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/11/21/risky-autism-treatments-25775/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So-called &#8216;therapies&#8217; amount to uncontrolled experimentation on children, experts say Thousands of American children with autism are being subjected to &#8220;therapies&#8221; that are costly, unproven and may cause harm, an investigation by the Chicago Tribune has concluded. Physicians are trading on hope to promote vitamins, intraveneous injections and even pressurized oxygen chambers to parents, saying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosa Monckton: Caregivers driven to the breaking point</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/11/10/rosa-monckton-25190/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rosa Monckton, whose 14-year-old daughter has Down syndrome, writes in the [UK] Daily Mail that the parents of children with disabilities face a shameful lack of support that is &#8220;driving some to breaking point &#8211; and even murder.&#8221; Monckton&#8217;s new documentary, &#8220;When Mother&#8217;s Love Is Not Enough,&#8221; documents the pressures faced by parents who have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Op-ed: People with Down syndrome surpass expectations</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/15/op-ed-surpassing-expectations-24180/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Buffalo [NY] News, Geralyn Spiesz salutes the &#8220;astounding achievements&#8221; by people with Down syndrome over the past few decades, thanks to parents and advocates who have pushed boundaries, opened doors and rejected society&#8217;s &#8220;outdated ideas.&#8221; Where once these people were routinely institutionalized, she says, they are now increasingly receiving the health care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mom, daughter challenge conventional thinking about parenting</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/10/06/mom-daughter-23566/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[intellectual/developmental disabilities]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bonnie Brown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Single mom with intellectual disability is raising daughter &#8216;A lot of my friends don&#8217;t have a mom who is always there for them the way my mom is for me. I&#8217;m so lucky.&#8217; From People magazine (on newsstands) and NBC Philadelphia: Bonnie Brown, a Pennsylvania single mother with a developmental disability, is raising her 12-year-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Article: &#8216;Will babies with Down syndrome slowly disappear?&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/14/will-babies-with-down-syndrome-disappear-22323/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Archives of Disease in Childhood (subscription required for full text), Dr. Brian Skotko reports that the number of babies born with Down syndrome has been steadily decreasing around the world as prenatal testing and selective termination have become more widespread. Skotko reports that a trend toward later childbearing in the United States [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Educators weigh impact of high court special ed ruling</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/09/high-court-special-ed-22106/</link>
		<comments>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/09/09/high-court-special-ed-22106/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Chicago Tribune: As kids across the nation go back to class, school officials worry about the financial impact of last June&#8217;s Supreme Court decision on special education. The ruling allows the parents of students with disabilities to seek reimbursement from their districts for private school tuition, even if they did not first try [...]]]></description>
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