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News Archive
March 2007
Let your fingers do the talking
March 2007
If you don't understand Makaton, you could soon be in a minority.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/primaryeducation/story/0,,2038054,00.html
Walking back to happiness
March 2007
Professor Sir Al Aynsley-Green likes teachers. He now wants teachers to be given training to help them recognise autism and know what to do.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2037469,00.html
Autism and the Rain Man Syndrome
March 2007
Fiona Leney on the problems for parents of hasty diagnosis.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/main.jhtml?xml=/education/2007/03/17/eautism17.xml
Scientists offer hope of cutting risk of having an autistic child.
March 2007
Researchers have found a clue to the cause of the most common forms of autism.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/16/ndowns16.xml
Patients with learning problems left to die
March 2007
The charity MENCAP last night exposed a scandal of neglect in NHS hospitals that allowed six people with learning disabilities to die because of lack of proper care.
John Carvel, Social affairs editor
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2031574,00.html
Mencap report on 'shocking' deaths sparks enquiry
March 2007
Patricia Hewit, the Health Secretary, has anounced an independent enquiry into allegations that six patients died in hospital as a result of institutional discrimination.
Jeremy Laurence, Health Editor
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article2350078.ece
Death by indifference
March 2007
Six deaths that are a national disgrace.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/12/nmental112.xml
Think of a Number
March 2007
Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet; read by author Hodder & Stoughton £14.99, 3 CD's. In Daniel Tammet's world, the number 9 is blue. The number five is loud and the word 'hat' is yellow.
By Kim Bunce
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/roundupstory/0,,2031073,00.html
The woman who unlocked her daughter's mind
March 2007
By the time her daughter was three, Sophie Dow knew something was wrong. Annie was monosyllabic, and it would be a long time before she could string words together...
Alexander Linklater
http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,2029145,00.html
Early fears about MMR in secret papers
March 2007
Mark Watts reports on the potentially dangerous side-effects of the MMR Vaccine.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/main.jhtml?xml=/health/2007/03/05/hmmr105.xml
Beyond Diagnosis
March 2007
Rose Ballard always found her son Theo's behaviour disturbing and difficult, and thought she must be a terrible mother. Then, when he was 22, he was diagnosed as having Asperger's.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/family/story/0,,2025123,00.html
When hard work is not enough
March 2007
At University the burden of organising study falls on the students not the teachers. It is a massive challenge if you have learning difficulties explains dyspraxic student Maxine Roper.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/student/student_life/article1423907.ece
