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Autism Speaks: Early Intervention Found Cost Effective Through School Years | May 1, 2013 #BanABA #AutisticHistory
Early Intervention Found Cost Effective Through School Years Early Start Denver Model not only achieves optimal outcomes in IQ, social interaction and brain activity, but minimizes therapies required through school years following intervention (NEW YORK, N.Y.) May 1, 2013 – The Early Start Denver Model (ESDM), a comprehensive behavioral early intervention program that is appropriate for…
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Research Projects Cure Autism Now Funded in 2000 | #AutisticHistory
Research Projects Cure Autism Now Funded in 2000 Conditional Neurotrophin Knock-out Mice as a Model for the Developmental Neuropathology of Autism Schahram Akbarian, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital (Young Investigator) Dr. Akbarian’s group has recently generated a mutant mouse that lacks the developing brain neurotrophin-3 (NT-3), a growth factor molecule. The mice are viable and have…
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Cure Autism Now | Overview of Autism Research 1998 – 2000 | #AutisticHistory
What’s New, What’s Old and What’s Next? 1998-2000: Overview of Autism ResearchBy Portia Iversen After forty years in the desert, major change has been underway in the field of autism research. The past two years in particular, have seen a major increase in autism research. Significant new data are beginning to accumulate, laying the ground…
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Cure Autism Now | Whose DNA Is It, Anyway? | Oct. 24, 1997 #AutisticHistory
Oct.24th, 1997Whose DNA Is It, Anyway?Eliot Marshall Three NIH institutes are trying to open up collections of DNA to spur hunts for disease genes, but clinicians fear that molecular biologists will skim the cream off years of their painstaking work “I thought the movie business was rough,” says Los Angeles filmmaker Jon Shestack, but in…
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Gorton Testifies Before Senate Panel on Autism Research | Sept. 16, 1999 #AutisticHistory #AutismPolitics
Gorton Testifies Before Senate Panel on Autism Research September 16, 1999 Actor Anthony Edwards and UW Scientist, Geraldine Dawson Join in Support for Gorton’s Autism Research Bill WASHINGTON DC–Senator Slade Gorton (R-WA) testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Health today about the need for increased efforts to research the causes and possible prevention methods for…
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Gorton Bill Seeks $46 Million for Autism Research | Feb. 23, 1999 #AutisticHistory #StopBigAutism
Gorton Bill Seeks $46 Million for Autism Research FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFebruary 23, 1999 Washington, D.C. — Senator Slade Gorton (R-WA) introduced the Advancement in Autism Research Act today, a bill that would target $46.5 million in federal research dollars to help autistic children. “Even today, with advances in therapy and early intervention, few autistic children…
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Cure Autism Now Board Of Directors, Honorary Board, AGRE Steering Committee & More | 2000 #AutisticHistory
DIRECTORS THE CAN BOARD OF DIRECTORS Portia E. Iversen President (parent) Jonathan Shestack Vice President, Treasurer (parent) Ricki Robinson, M.D. Medical Liaison (parent) Ellen Bolte Secretary (parent) Sallie Bernard Board Member (parent) Andrea Bertrand Board Member (parent) Anthony Edwards Board Member Elizabeth Emken Board Member (parent) Nanci Fredkin Board Member George Jones Board Member (parent) Jonathan Kaunitz, M.D. Board Member (parent) Marianne Lynch Board Member (parent) Jerome Shestack,…
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