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Brian Field is the co-founder of the Autism Support Network, a global community providing free guidance and support for families and individuals touched by autism spectrum disorder. He can be reached at brian@autismsupportnetwork.com.

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Autism and IEP help

Navigating your way through the public school process for individualized education plans (IEPs) can be a frustrating process, and one that parents can...
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Disclosing the best kept secret of autism

What’s the best-kept secret of autism? Well, it may very well be the one that you’re keeping. Whether you’re a parent of a child...
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Autism and the double standard of discrimination

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Did you hear the news recently that told of the business executive -- at his company for 12 years -- who goaded his (white) co-workers to ostracize...
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Platinum record producer on hunger strike for autism

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In the landscape of autism-advocating celebrities so familiar to mainstream America, and mainstream media – Jenny McCarthy, Amanda Peet, Toni...
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Multi-year divide exists between possible and actual autism diagnoses

A key success factor for helping those with autism better cope and interact in the world is early identification, analysis of that child’s...
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New autism research studies brain imaging, finds neurological markers

A recent study conduced by the Kennedy Krieger Institute, and published in the April 23 issue of Brain Advanced Access, has taken a first step in...
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No, I’m not drunk, I’m autistic

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In the realm of the grossly inappropriate we rarely think of our neighbors to the north; we here in the States typically consider Canada as a more...
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Parenting and the high cost of autism

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The cost of raising a child is one of the archetypal concerns that looms over parents. Food, clothing, education, a release to adulthood. When upon...
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Pop media’s efforts key driver of autism awareness

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With the increase in diagnosed cases of autism today, it is startling that April -- World Autism Awareness Month -- has received so little global...
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Fever, autism and the basis for new research

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Two doctors from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have published a study, published in the March 2009 Brain Research Reviews,...
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