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September 2009



Special Report: What Happens When Stress Doesn't Go Away?

Wednesday, 30 September 2009 6:26 P GMT
 Depression and Anxiety Special Report What Happens When Stress Doesn't Go Away Can constant stress literally cause a mood disorder? Possibly. Of course, not everyone with depression or anxiety has experienced a very stressful event --

Seclusion and Aversive Methods are Harmful to Special Needs Kids

Wednesday, 30 September 2009 5:21 P GMT
 September 29, 4:51 PMElizabeth BrownSeclusion is an abuse of power. The threat and the use of time out rooms with special needs kids is an ineffective method that puts the child at risk for psychological and physical harm. A report on

BBC Radio 4 Broadcast "Adults with Autism"/Chris Goodchild on Diagnosis and Meeting his Father

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 4:36 P GMT
By Sara Parker Producer, Adults with Autism Chris felt desperateTuesday, 29 September 2009 09:22 UK 'Meeting my

Hailey's Comets: The Pupils Heading Down Under For The Race Of A Lifetime

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 4:20 P GMT
By Matt SandyLast updated at 1:22 AM on 27th September 2009It is the latest craze to give daredevil participants a huge adrenaline rush – racing space-age tricycle 'pods' at high speed. Now, a group of teenagers is preparing to travel

Education: Special Needs System Shake-Up to Improve Support of Pupils

Tuesday, 29 September 2009 4:13 P GMT
  Ed Balls to announce new measures providing more help for disabled children and those with special educational needs Monday, 28 September 2009 Ed Balls, the schools secretary

The Job Place and Ticket To Work Program

Monday, 28 September 2009 4:59 P GMT
 Job Place helps find work for differently abled By Cierra Putman The Baytown Sun Published September 26, 2009 Music plays quietly as a 21-year-old Jacob Peterson diligently completes his job shredding paper for a Highlands comp

Thorkil Sonne: Recruit Autistics

Monday, 28 September 2009 4:34 P GMT
  By Drake BennettMost occupations require people skills. But for some, a preternatural capacity for concentration and near-total recall matter more. Those jobs, entrepreneur Thorkil Sonne says, could use a little autism.

A World of Difference

Monday, 28 September 2009 3:59 P GMT
 When difficulties at school led to Kenneth Hall's eventual diagnosis with Asperger syndrome, writes Joy Orpen, his mother little expected to receive the self-same diagnosis By Joy Orpen Sunday September 27 2009 <!-- // a

Bipolar Disorder: What's in a Label?/Spotlight on a Live Journal -Comic Strips & Reducing Stigma

Friday, 25 September 2009 4:19 P GMT
 Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.Bipolar disorder affects approximately 6 million adults in the United States alone (National Institute of Mental Health). There is a lot of stigma around the label bipolar disorder, but what is it exactly? Is it a psychol

Autism Care Provider Welcomes Publication of NHS Report Into Prevalence of Autism in the Adult Population

Friday, 25 September 2009 4:01 P GMT
 By: PR Newswire Sep. 24, 2009 12:22 PM LONDON, September 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Brookdale Care, one of the UK's leading providers of residential support services for people living with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD), has welcomed the pu

Avoidant Personality Disorder and Social Phobia

Friday, 25 September 2009 10:26 A GMT
 Simone Hoermann, Ph.D.Avoidant Personality Disorder is one of the more common personality disorders. Experts estimate that about 5% to 7% of people on the community can be diagnosed with Avoidant Personality Disorder (APD).  Based on the d

NYTimes: Dr. Leon Eisenberger, Pioneer in Autism Studies, Dies at 87

Thursday, 24 September 2009 11:19 P GMT
By BENEDICT CAREY Published: September 23, 2009 <!--NYT_INLINE_IMAGE_POSITION1 --> Dr. Leon Eisenberg, who conducted some of the first rigorous studies of autism, attention deficit disorder and learning delays and became a prom

Latest Stress & Anxiety Studies: Adolescent Anxiety, Panic Disorder, Emotional Eating, Social Anxiety Disorder, Naturopathy & More

Thursday, 24 September 2009 4:02 P GMT
 Adolescent anxiety, depression two distinct disordersWiley-Blackwell Adolescent depression and anxiety disorders are two distinct psychiatric disorders, according to Dr William W. Hale III (a researcher of the Langeveld Institute for the Study

Latest Studies: Managing Depression in Pregnancy, Valdoxan, US Suicide Trends & Online Screening Interventions & More

Wednesday, 23 September 2009 4:01 P GMT
 U.S suicide trends and online screening interventionsPsychiatry Weekly 2009 Sep 21; 4(21) Gebbia R. Executive Director, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, New York Introduction Only about half of Americans who die by suicide had been

PRESS RELEASE(Includes Updates): Autistic Community Condemns Autism Speaks "I Am Autism" Campaign

Wednesday, 23 September 2009 9:55 A GMT
 Press Contacts: Ari Ne’emanThe Autistic Self-Advocacy NetworkPhone: 732.763.5530E-mail: aneeman@autisticadvocacy.orgFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEAutistic Community Condemns Autism Speaks’ “I am Autism” Campaign“We are the

Autism Rates Back MMR Safety

Tuesday, 22 September 2009 4:20 P GMT
  By Michelle Roberts Health reporter, BBC NewsLatest autism figures should dispel any fears about t

Education: Striking A Student Is Never Acceptable/Abuse, Neglect Claims Not Reported At 2 Miami Schools

Tuesday, 22 September 2009 3:57 P GMT
  Lawyer: Teacher's action not a crime Now-retired Perry educator asks that felony charges of hitting mentally disabled man be droppedBy Jon Murray Posted: September 22, 2009A former Perry Township teacher accused of twice striking a dis

Diagnosis Difficulties: Leyton Mother Speaks Out

Monday, 21 September 2009 5:05 P GMT
 By Claire Hack A Leyton mother claims she 'went through hell' to get a diagnosis of her daughter's learning difficulties A MOTHER claims she went through 'three years of hell' before her daughter was finally diagnosed

The Novelty Warehouse: Sensory Toy Shop

Monday, 21 September 2009 4:39 P GMT
  <!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> The Novelty Warehouse, an online store selling sensory toys for children with special needs, celebrated its first birthday back in March

Housing Options: Building Support

Monday, 21 September 2009 4:20 P GMT
<!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> <!-- @page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } -->  Building Support   Mike MacCallam repo

Dealing with Stress & Anxiety? Take A Walk In The Park

Friday, 18 September 2009 6:48 P GMT
 Good Medicine, A Stroll In the ParkAllan Schwartz, LCSW, Ph.D.In our rushed and busy lives who has time to contemplate nature? We live in big urban centers, rush to work, rush home to do household chores and many of us even go to a second job i

Men With Mops Employs Autistic Adults

Friday, 18 September 2009 6:44 P GMT
  Friday, September 18, 2009 Karen Keller STAR-LEDGER STAFF For an autistic worker, the hardest part of a job is often the easiest for everyone else: Joking with co-workers, sharing desserts on a special day, instinctively treating your boss wi

News 17th September, 2009.

Thursday, 17 September 2009 3:41 P GMT
 HEADLINES “Susan Lister guilty of assault, deprivation of liberty”: http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,20797,26025434-952,00.html?from=public_rss “Nashville school bus sex-abuse case drags on”: http://www.ten

Fwd: Join Us On September 21 NYLN Teleconference on Disability and Media

Thursday, 17 September 2009 1:33 P GMT
  Join National Youth Leadership Network (NYLN) on Monday, September 21, 2009 at 8:00PM Eastern to discuss Independent Media 2.0. Using blogs, video and free social media tools (podcasting, twitter, facebook) to revolutionize and remix a powerfu

Melon Derived Antioxidant Relieves Stress

Wednesday, 16 September 2009 11:14 P GMT
 BioMed CentralA dietary ingredient derived from a melon rich in antioxidant superoxide dismutase enzymes has been shown to relieve stress. In a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial, published in BioMed Central's open access Nu