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show first aired March 18, 2010
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There are very few non-emotional discussions about Autism. Most of the controversy surrounds the question about the cause of the condition...but for families who live with it every day the question of cause is less important than this question: “what can we do to live with Autism?”. On this week’s Health Show, we’ll follow a family who is doing just that. We’ll also hear from a journalist who set out to write a book about the over-medication of today’s children...and wound up coming to a totally different conclusion.
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LIVING AND LOVING WITH AUTISM
Autism has been in the news a lot recently with the Temple Grandin biopic on HBO and the retraction by the journal "Lancet" of it's published research linking childhood vaccines to autism. And just this month the federal "vaccines court" ruled that the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal does not cause autism, a finding that supports the broad scientific consensus on the matter but that greatly disappointed parents who are convinced that their child's illness was caused by vaccines. And then there's the proposal by the American Psychiatric Association to drop certain autism subtypes, including Asperger's Syndrome, from it's diagnostic and statistical manual. But one thing is certain: scientifically proven behavioral interventions for children with autism do exist. Jacqueline Froelich reports.
We've Got Issues - Part 1
Talk about emotional discussions. Try starting a conversation about not only Autism, but A-D-H-D or Dyslexia or any number of other learning disabilities and the opinions will start to fly...everything from “there’s an epidemic” to “it’s just drug companies trying to sell pills”. When Judith Warner set out to write a book on the subject, she was leaning towards the pill-selling side of the argument. Judith Warner is a best selling author and journalist who has written for Newsweek and Time magazines. The book that came out of her research is called “We’ve Got Issues - Children and Parents in the Age of Medication”.
We've Got Issues - Part 2
This is part two of our interview with Judith Warner, a best selling author and journalist who’s new book is called “We’ve Got Issues - Children and Parents in the Age of Medication”.
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