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		<title>Government crackdown on autism â€˜therapies&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 01:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Chicago Tribune, ABC News, Washington Post The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned eight companies to stop marketing unproven over-the-counter chelation&#8221;therapies&#8221; as treatments for autism, cardiovascular diseases, Alzheimer&#8217;s and other conditions. The products&#8217; distributors have claimed they cure a range of diseases by removing heavy metals from the body. &#8220;These products are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obit: Stanley I. Greenspan, creator of &#8216;Floortime&#8217; method</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excerpt from the Washington Post&#8216;s obituary, by Emma Brown: Stanley I. Greenspan, 68, a child psychiatrist who wrote more than a dozen parenting books and developed the popular &#8220;floor time&#8221; method for reaching children with autism and other developmental disorders, died April 27 at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda of complications from a stroke. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mind like a pinball machine? Maybe it&#8217;s adult ADHD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Wall Street Journal: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has often gone undiagnosed in adults, according to government figures, but that is beginning to change. It&#8217;s estimated that some ten million American adults have the disorder, but fewer than a quarter are aware of it. Experts say adult ADHD often accompanies depression, anxiety and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Op-ed: MD is wary of relying on drugs to fight autism</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/12/14/autism-drugs-26601/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Boston Globe, pediatrician Claudia M. Gold says she&#8217;s worried about the potential for over-reliance on drugs for the treatment of autism. Already, she says, children with ADHD are getting too much medication. A recent study in the journal Pediatrics found that intensive and focused play, with parent, child and therapist participating together, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PA governor pushes tax hike for autism treatment</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/06/22/governor-autism-18906/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Philadelphia Inquirer: Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell, a Democrat, warned voters yesterday that budget cuts would reverse years of progress in autism treatment unless state lawmakers hike income taxes by 16 percent for three years. Speaking at an autism rally at Bryn Mawr, Rendell urged voters to lobby their lawmakers. One theme emerged: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan insurer to begin offering autism coverage</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/05/12/blue-cross-michigan-16196/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 21:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Detroit News: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has announced plans to offer coverage for Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) for children with autism who are between 2 and 5 years old. The announcement comes as the insurer is being sued over its previous refusal to cover ABA claims. The company had maintained that [...]]]></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>New IL law expands insurance coverage for kids with disabilities</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/04/16/illinois-insurance-14512/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judith Graham writes in the the Chicago Tribune Triage blog that a new Illinois law will require insurance companies to provide &#8220;habilitative&#8221; therapies for youngsters with developmental disabilities to gain new skills. Previously, coverage was limited to children receiving &#8220;rehabilitative&#8221; therapies to recover lost skills. Coverage will be extended to children with cerebral palsy, autism, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents say music therapy helps kids with autism</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/03/18/music-therapy-12148/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the [NJ] Star-Ledger: Parents and therapists say music helps children with autism build communication skills &#8211; even though they concede that more research needs to be done to support the theory. Parents say they&#8217;ve observed that music therapy helps children with autism focus; that it relieves anxiety and frustration; that it decreases agitation; that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columnist: CA autism insurance ruling isn&#8217;t fair</title>
		<link>http://www.patriciaebauer.com/2009/03/12/sandy-banks-11665/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patricia Bauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Sandy Banks slams a ruling by California regulators that insurance companies must pay for speech, occupational and physical therapies for kids with autism, but not for their behavioral therapies. An excerpt: State law says insurers must cover mental and behavior disorders the same way they cover other medical conditions. [...]]]></description>
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