Topic: Learning and Developmental Disorders
Reuters US Online Report Internet News | 2010-02-23 12:40:50
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian Facebook group proposing that children with Down's syndrome be used for target practice has been shut down and Italy's equality minister threatened the "thousands of idiots" involved with legal action on Tuesday. The page, which showed a photo of a baby with Down's with the word "imbecile" written on its forehead, said an ...
AFP Global Edition | 2010-02-22 01:10:19
Politicians and Internet activists in Italy have denounced a page on the social networking site Facebook that calls for children with Down Syndrome to be used for target practice. Police were trying to track down who set up the page, which features a photo of a Down Syndrome baby with the word "idiot" superimposed on it, and by late Sunday ...
AP News | 2010-02-17 15:41:21
<div id="subtitle">'Aspies' cling to Asperger's as an elite diagnosis and balk at proposal to lump it with autism</div><div><p>In the autism world, "Aspies" are sometimes seen as the elites, the ones who are socially awkward, yet academically gifted and who embrace their quirkiness.</p> ...
Reuters US Online Report Science News | 2010-02-16 13:37:35
<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A hormone thought to encourage bonding between mothers and their babies may foster social behavior in some adults with autism, French researchers said on Monday.</p><p>They found patients who inhaled the hormone oxytocin paid more attention to expressions when looking at pictures of faces and were ...
