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PUBLIC HEALTH
* MMR Critics 'Irresponsible'
* The Discomfort Of Patient Power
* Brief Commentary on Patient Insubordination
* (Not German) Measles Outbreak Hits German Region
* Court Challenge On Single Vaccines
* MMR Vaccine Remains A
Concern Reveals Latest Survey
RESEARCH
* The Neurobiology Of Social Cognition [Review]
* Neurosteroids: Biochemistry And Clinical Significance [Review]
* Brain Mechanisms In Normal And Dyslexic Readers [Review]
* Human secretin (SCT): Gene Structure, Chromosome Location,
And Distribution Of mRNA
* Newly Formed Hippocampal Neurons Function Like Mature Cells
EDUCATION
* 'Distance Education' to Teach Parents and Professionals About
Autism
* NCD Calls for Accountability, Achievement, Fidelity for
Students
with Disabilities
* Education Funding Shortfall Misses Opportunity
* Reform Leaders Call for Major Changes in Federal Special
Education
Policy
* Irish Government 'Has No Coherent Strategy' For Autistic
Education
* Forging Links Between Biomedical And Educational Approaches
* Reader's Posts
MMR Critics 'Irresponsible'
[By Jonathan Walker in The
Birmingham Post - United Kingdom.]
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020227010527&query=mmr
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A Birmingham MP who nearly died due to measles as a baby
condemned
critics of the MMR vaccine
as 'irresponsible' yesterday.
Lynne Jones (Lab Selly Oak) said the risks of refusing to
immunise
children with the triple
vaccination were far greater than the risks of
accepting the treatment.
She was speaking in an adjournment debate in the House of
Commons on
the controversy surrounding
the measles, mumps and rubella injection, known
as MMR.
Julie Kirkbride (Con Bromsgrove) argued that the NHS should
offer
parents a choice between
single injections and MMR.
A study has linked MMR to autism, although most independent
medical
organisations insist the
injection is safe. Ms Kirkbride has refused to
allow her 16-month-old son
Angus to receive the triple injection. He is
being treated with separate
injections instead. And last year she put the
spotlight on Tony Blair,
demanding he reveal whether his son Leo had
received the MMR injection.
Yesterday she led a debate in which she called on the
Government to
'live in the real world' and
recognise the fact that many parents did not
trust MMR, rightly or
wrongly.
In the circumstances, the best way to ensure as many children
as
possible were immunised was
to allow parents to choose the treatment they
wanted, she said.
However Dr Jones told the debate she nearly died as an infant
from
pneumonia arising from
measles, and condemned Ms Kirkbride. She said: 'I
think she is being very
irresponsible in the way she is raising issues.
'Of course there is concern. But the fact is that the risks
associated
with not having the MMR jab
are far greater than the risks associated with
having it.'
Peter Bradley (Lab The
Wrekin) said that, as a parent, he was angry with Ms
Kirkbride as well as with
the media.
'In the face of overwhelming evidence that MMR is safe, some
newspapers have
sensationalised largely refuted research by one doctor, and
some opposition MPs I'm
sorry to say have jumped on the bandwagon.'
The medical establishment
was certain MMR was safe, he said.
The focus on Leo Blair gave the impression that Mr Blair was
the
expert on MMR when the views
of medical professionals were far more
important, he said.
'I would suggest some elements of the press and indeed some
members
should search their
consciences.'
Ms Kirkbride said: 'Single
vaccinations used to be available on the NHS
until this Government came
to power in 1997 and the Department of Health
then changed the guidance,
and only MMR was then available. That was a fatal
mistake.'
Even if MMR was safe the
Government should 'live in the real world' and
recognise the fact that parents
did not trust it. I don't believe it will be
effective in persuading
parents to do something that goes against their gut
instincts,' said Ms
Kirkbride.
She added: 'The way we do boost immunisation levels is to
give parents
a choice.' The triple
vaccination was being blamed for causing autism in a
court action bought by 2,000
parents, she said.
'We do not know whether MMR caused that problem, but
thoseparents
believe it did,' she said.
She was supported by Bill Wiggin (Con Leominster)
who said: 'We are not
debating whether MMR is good or bad. We are debating
whether we can give people a
choice.'
While the proportion of
children being immunised continued to fall 'lives
are being put at risk', he
said.
Health Minister Yvette Cooper said offering single
vaccinations would
create three problems.
Some children would not get all three injections, there would
be a gap
between injections during
which children were vulnerable to illness, and it
would demolish confidence in
MMR which was undoubtedly more effective than
single jabs.
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The Discomfort Of Patient
Power
Medical authorities will
have to learn to live with "irrational" decisions
by the public
[BMJ 2002;324:497-498 ( 2 March ).]
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/324/7336/497
Patients will often chose to ignore their doctors' advice and
do
something that their doctors
regard as odd, even crazy. The BMJ described
the case of a young man who
lost blood after a road crash, declined a blood
transfusion, and died in
front of disbelieving and disturbed doctors. He was
a Jehovah's Witness, and
nobody disputed his right to do as he did. This is
the reality of patient
autonomy and power. But does it extend beyond
individuals? Does patient
power mean that large groups of patients should
have the right to behave in
a way that "the authorities" think misguided? We
see more and more examples
where groups of patients chose to ignore the
advice of authorities, and
it seems likely that this will happen
increasingly.
The most prominent example in Britain at the moment concerns
MMR
(measles, mumps, and
rubella) vaccine. The authorities,
including the BMJ,
are unanimous in seeing it
as a highly effective vaccine with minor side
effects. Following a report
in the Lancet, the public and the media have,
however, become increasingly
worried that the vaccine may cause bowel
disease and autism.
Increasing doubts about the vaccine seem to stem from
conflicting
scientific evidence over
possible side effects, longstanding anxieties over
vaccination, declining folk
memory of the potential horrors of the
infections being prevented,
distrust of the authorities (fuelled by the
government's mishandling of
bovine spongiform encephalopathy), and a media
campaign motivated partly by
a correct instinct to side with the governed
rather than the government
and partly by newspapers who seize any
opportunity to oppose the
Labour party. The result is a fall in the number
of children being vaccinated
and more outbreaks of measles.
The government has responded by gathering together ever
larger groups
of authorities to back its
line that the vaccine is safe and that it would
be folly to offer parents
the choice of having their children vaccinated
separately against each
disease. The authorities' case is strong and
supported by the BMJ. But
would any doctor respond to the doubts of an
individual patient by
assembling authorities to tell the patient of the
foolishness of his or her
thinking? Perhaps initially, although any doctor
should recognise that
excessive reassurance may be counterproductive
The
doctor would eventually do
what the patient chose. Should the government do
the same for the population
and offer a choice that it thinks misguided?
The government's own rhetoric on patient partnership suggests
that it
should. Patients come first
and are free to make silly choices. The
government should also
recognise, as the Royal Society has concluded, that
when it comes to assessing
risk experts are no better than the population at
large. This is mainly
because assessing risk is not simply a matter of
statistics: it also involves
factoring in the "horror" of the risk. A very
low or perhaps highly
uncertain risk of a dreadful outcome may feel to the
public like a high risk and
who is to say that it isn't? It may even be as
the proponents of "lay
epidemiology" argue that the
public is good at
combining confused and
conflicting information to reach a conclusion.
The first argument against the government giving way is the
scientific
case that more choice is
likely to lead to lower levels of protection and
more infections. Another
argument is that giving way to the few may cause
harm to the many. The result
of one set of parents deciding not to get their
children vaccinated may be
that somebody else's child suffers brain damage
from measles. The doctors
who watched the young Jehovah's Witness die went
along with undoubted harm to
the man's young children, but the scale is
quite different with public
health problems.
MMR vaccine is not the only example of authorities and the
public
taking different views. A
dispassionate examination of the evidence suggests
that routine screening for
prostate cancer with prostate specific antigen
may cause more harm than
good. But particularly in the United States those
who argue that case may find
themselves howled down and abused. Many men,
particularly those who have
had prostate cancer, resent greatly any attempt
to restrict the availability
of the test.
Arguments over the effectiveness of mammography are more
complicated
because there are experts
and patients on both sides. Although the big money
is on one side, a united
patient view might eventually prevail. Views of
patients are certainly
beginning to prevail with chronic fatigue syndrome.
England's chief medical
officer took the bold step of setting up a working
party on the condition that
included every shade of opinion. One result was
that half the members
resigned before the working party reported but another
was that the patient view,
based on what experts see as anecdote, was given
the same credibility as the
evidence based view.
This is the way that the world is going. It's called
postmodernism.
There is no
"truth" defined by experts. Rather there are many opinions based
on very different views and
theories of the world. Doctors, governments, and
even the BMJ might hanker
after a world where their view is dominant. But
that world is disappearing
fast.
Richard Smith, editor. [Reference deleted.]
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Brief Commentary on Patient
Insubordination
By Lenny Schafer
It's only human, but not very scientific, to dismiss one's
detractors
as "irrational",
or suffering some other form of mental incompetence because
they disagree with one's
conclusions, as Mr. Smith does in his editorial
(above) bemoaning his
profession's loss of patient subordination.
In a
rational world, the expert's
informed opinions could only prevail over those
of the public lemmings, is
the plaint.
When patients, in growing numbers, see before their own eyes
their
children disintegrate
mentally after receiving an MMR inoculation and are
then summarily dismissed as
anecdotal hysterics by the experts, it is only
natural for these parents to
lose respect for the authorities. The
expert's
unwillingness to even listen
to the "anecdotes" before dismissal is the
public health equivalent to
being told "let them eat cake."
Mr. Smith should not be so irrational himself to think that
the
medical experts can slap
down the noisy rabble with such condescension and
then expect them to salute
their "evidence based" conclusions in response.
Instead they will find their
authority so guillotined. This is
nothing as
fancy as
"postmodernism" as it is plain old grievance based rebellion that
the experts brought onto
themselves with their autocratic presumptions that
they can only be right and
the rest, mad.
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(Not German) Measles
Outbreak Hits German Region
[By Ned Stafford at Reuters Health.]
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020228/hl_nm/germany_6
An outbreak of measles in a rural district of southern
Bavaria is at
least partly due to
"militant" opposition to the combined measles, mumps and
rubella (MMR) vaccine,
according to Germany's Professional Association of
Pediatricians (BVKJ).
More than 600 cases of measles have been reported in the past
few
weeks in the district of
Coburg, which has a population of about 135,000,
the BVKJ said in a
statement.
Dr. Waltraud Knipping, head of the Bavarian branch of the
BVKJ, said
that as the number of
opponents to MMR vaccination has risen, the readiness
of parents in Bavaria to
have their children vaccinated has declined.
Opponents of MMR vaccinations believe the combination vaccine
is not
safe, and that the dangers
outweigh the benefits. MMR vaccinations have
become a major issue in the
UK after research suggested they might be linked
to inflammatory bowel
disease and autism in some children.
Knipping said on Thursday that she strongly disagrees that
the
vaccinations are not safe,
and encourages all children to be vaccinated.
She told Reuters Health that at least 90% of all children
need to be
immunized to effectively
fight against measles epidemics.
In Germany, the MMR vaccination normally has been given in
two doses,
the first for infants and
the second when the child is around 6 years old.
In 2000, about 80% of
children in Bavaria were vaccinated with the first
dose of MMR, and only 60%
had taken the second dose, she said.
An effort will be made to promote MMR vaccinations in
Bavarian schools
by the BVKJ, the Bavarian
Health Ministry and other health organizations,
Knipping said.
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Court Challenge On Single
Vaccines
By Nicole Martin
A father is seeking to take
the Government to court for refusing to provide
single vaccinations for
measles, mumps and rubella on the National Health
Service. Gareth Fairhurst,
who has a 13-month-old son, believes that the
Government's rejection of
the vaccinations is in breach of the Human Rights
Act…
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MMR Vaccine Remains A
Concern Reveals Latest Survey
PR Newswire
http://globalarchive.ft.com/globalarchive/article.html?id=020301003460&query
=mmr < - - address ends
here.
Recent research carried out
by Martin Hamblin GfK has revealed that the
Government has not fully
reassured the public about MMR and its safety.
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RESEARCH
The Neurobiology Of Social
Cognition [Review]
Ralph AdolphsCurrent Opinion in Neurobiology, 2001,
11:2:231-239
Abstract Recent studies have
begun to elucidate the roles played in social
cognition by specific neural
structures, genes, and neurotransmitter
systems.
Cortical regions in the temporal lobe participate in
perceiving
socially relevant stimuli,
whereas the amygdala, right somatosensory
cortices, orbitofrontal
cortices, and cingulate cortices all participate in
linking perception of such
stimuli to motivation, emotion, and cognition.
Open questions remain about
the domain-specificity of social cognition,
about its overlap with
emotion and with communication, and about the methods
best suited for its
investigation.
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Neurosteroids: Biochemistry
And Clinical Significance [Review]
Synthia H. Mellon and Lisa
D. GriffinTrends in Endocrinology and Metabolism,
2002, 13:1:35-43 Abstract
The brain, like the adrenals, gonads and the placenta, is a
steroidogenic tissue.
However, unlike classic steroidogenic tissues, the
synthesis of steroids in the
nervous system requires coordinated expression
and regulation of genes
encoding the steroidogenic enzymes in several
different cell types
(neurons and glia) at different locations in the
nervous system, often at
some distance from the cell bodies.
Furthermore, the synthesis of these steroids might be
developmentally
regulated and related to
their functions in the developing brain. The
steroids synthesized by the
brain and nervous system, given the name
'neurosteroids', have a wide
variety of diverse functions. In general, they
mediate their actions not
through classic steroid hormone nuclear receptors,
but through other
mechanisms, such as ion-gated neurotransmitter receptors
or direct/indirect
modulation of other neurotransmitter receptors.
We summarize the biochemistry of the enzymes involved in the
biosynthesis of
neurosteroids, their pharmacological properties and modes of
action. The physiological
relevance and potential uses of neurosteroids in
certain human diseases are
discussed.
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Brain Mechanisms In Normal
And Dyslexic Readers [Review]
Elise Temple
Current Opinion in
Neurobiology, (February 18, 2002),
10.1016/S0959-4388(02)00303-3
Abstract
Developmental dyslexics, individuals with an unexplained
difficulty
reading, have been shown to
have deficits in phonological processing — the
awareness of the sound
structure of words — and, in some cases, a more
fundamental deficit in rapid
auditory processing. In addition, dyslexics
show a disruption in white
matter connectivity between posterior and frontal
regions.
These results give continued support for a neurobiological
etiology of
developmental dyslexia.
However, more research will be required to determine
the possible causal
relationships between these neurobiological disruptions
and dyslexia.
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Human secretin (SCT): Gene
Structure, Chromosome Location, And Distribution
Of mRNA.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_ui
ds=11060443&dopt=Abstract
<- - Address ends here.
Whitmore TE, Holloway JL,
Lofton-Day CE, Maurer MF, Chen L, Quinton TJ,
Vincent JB, Scherer SW, Lok
S. ZymoGenetics Inc., Seattle, WA 98102, USA.
Secretin is an endocrine hormone that stimulates the
secretion of
bicarbonate-rich pancreatic
fluids. Recently, it has been discussed that
secretin deficiency may be
implicated in autistic syndrome, suggesting that
the hormone could have a
neuroendocrine function in addition to its role in
digestion.
In the present study, the human secretin gene (SCT) was
isolated from
a bacterial artificial
chromosome genomic library. SCT contains four exons,
with the protein coding
regions spanning 713 bp of genomic DNA. Human SCT is
similar structurally to the
secretin genes of other species.
Amino acid conservation, however, is most pronounced within
the exon
encoding the biologically
active mature peptide. Northern blot analysis
shows that human SCT transcripts
are located in the spleen, intestinal
tract, and brain. Radiation
hybrid mapping places the SCT locus on
chromosome 11p15.5.
Copyright 2000 S. Karger AG, Basel.
PMID: 11060443 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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Newly Formed Hippocampal Neurons
Function Like Mature Cells
http://www.thelancet.com/journal/vol359/iss9308/full/llan.359.9308.news.2021
9.6
…Neurons newly formed in the
adult mammalian brain not only look
like …studied newly
generated neurons in the dentate gyrus of adult mouse
hippocampus and compared
their structure and function with that of mature
neurons…
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EDUCATION
'Distance Education' to
Teach Parents and Professionals About Autism
A SUNY-Albany Program
[By Brock Read.]
http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002022801u.htm
The difficulties of understanding and educating children with
autism
can make parents and
teachers "desperate," says Sarah Roche, a project staff
assistant at the State
University of New York at Albany. Through a
three-course certificate
program, the university uses a variety of
distance-learning media to
provide instruction in what can be an exhausting
field.
The university's project, the Autism Distance Education
Network,
offers two of its three
courses this spring: "Autism I: Foundation Course"
and "Autism II:
Introduction to Intervention." In the first course, students
discuss the causes of
autism, historical views of the disorder, treatments
drawing on psychology and
biology, and recent research. In the course on
intervention, they learn to
plan programs that monitor autistic students'
communication, behavioral,
and social skills.
V. Mark Durand, a professor of psychology and interim dean of
the
university's College of Arts
and Sciences, developed the courses, which are
based on his lectures. When
the foundations course made its debut in the
fall, students watched and
interacted with the lectures through
videoconferencing technology
at 13 university classrooms and health centers
located throughout New York.
Now, students receive CD-ROM's on which Mr. Durand's
lectures,
recorded from the fall
sessions, appear as video files. At the beginning of
the course -- and after each
of its four exams -- the university sends three
disks, each with one lecture
and a set of notes, to every student. Both the
lectures and notes are also
available on the course's Web site, but the
university decided to adopt
CD-ROMs, because they allow students to review
material more easily at
their own pace, according to Ms. Roche.
The lectures and self-administered exams form the bulk of the
course,
but Mr. Durand holds online
chat sessions and moderates a discussion board
as well. Graduate students
earn credit by completing a research paper of 8
to 10 pages in which they
formulate a plan for teaching a specific skill to
an autistic child.
Students in "Autism II" still meet through
videoconferences, which are
now held at 12 locations in
New York. (Online lectures are available for
students who must miss a
session.) Mr. Durand does not simply lecture,
however; he holds
interactive sessions modeled after hospital rounds. In the
"eRounds,"
students present case studies taken from their experiences and
lead discussions about
treatment and education issues.
Mr. Durand says the interactive sessions are productive
because
parents, teachers, and
students bring different experiences and ideas to the
discussions. "A parent
can say, 'This is what I used in my house,'" says Mr.
Durand, "and teachers
can suggest certain other things."
He developed the online autism program after participating in
an
assessment of autism
education in New York state. The report, which was
sponsored by the state's
department of education, recommended a series of
steps that educators could
take to improve programs for autistic children.
Mr. Durand used the
suggestions as guiding principles for the courses at
Albany.
Response to the certificate program "has exceeded our
wildest dreams,"
according to Mr. Durand. More
than 160 people enrolled in the introductory
course in the fall, and the
figures have held steady this semester. "We're
turning people away at this
point," Mr. Durand says.
The majority of the students in the course are graduates
working as
special educators and
looking to obtain certificates as associate behavior
analysts. Many, however, are
undergraduates, and some are parents who audit
the class seeking
alternative methods of helping their own children. That
concerned parents can
participate reflects Mr. Durand's concept of the
course, which is
"designed to help people, not just as an intellectual
exercise," he says.
The Autism Distance Education Network
Institution: State
University of New York at Albany
Instructor: V. Mark Durand, a
professor of psychology
When offered:Fall and spring
sessions
Cost: Each course costs $639
for graduate students in New York, $411 for
undergraduates.
Enrollment: 150 to 200
students enroll.
Information about the
program is available
http://www.albany.edu/psy/autism/aden_courses.html
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NCD Calls for
Accountability, Achievement, Fidelity for Students with
Disabilities as IDEA
Reauthorization Looms
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020227/180/16v0u.html
U.S. Newswire
... Special education is
statutorily defined as "specially designed
instruction" that meets
the "unique needs" of...
* * *
National Education
Association: Education Funding Shortfall Misses
Opportunity to Truly 'Leave
No Child Behind'
U.S. Newswire
..." The
Administration's budget is a good first step in boosting Title I,
special education and literacy funding, but overall is the
smallest
increase since 1996 and far
short of promised...
* * *
Reform Leaders Call for
Major Changes in Federal Special Education Policy
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020227/180/16qqz.html>Educati
on
Source: U.S. Newswire
Three prominent leaders of
the education reform movement have called for
major changes in
federal special education policy they say are needed to
ensure the program lives up
to the "promise of its principles."
* * *
Irish Government 'Has No
Coherent Strategy' For Autistic Education
www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=697764&issue_id=6958
…Services for children with
autism are in crisis and are getting worse by
the day, campaigners claimed
yesterday …A dedicated Autistic Unit opened in
Lucan, Co Dublin, last
September may have to close for the second time in
less than six months because
of uncertainty over funding, it has emerged…
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Forging Links Between
Biomedical And Educational Approaches: Talks with
William Shaw and Eric
Schopler in LOOKING UP
Latest Edition of 40-page
Monthly International Autism Newsletter, LOOKING
UP, Is Out Now.
It features a special section: Building Bridges in Barcelona
- Forging
links between the biomedical
and educational approaches to autism.
You can read a full report from the recent autism conference
in
Barcelona.
Dr William Shaw, director of the Great Plains Laboratory in
Kansas,
and many others discuss
biomedical methods for treating children with
autism.
A Spanish mother describes the exciting improvements in her
severely
autistic son following a
gluten- and casein-free diet.
Dr Eric Schopler, founder of the TEACCH programme in North
Carolina; a
leading Spanish TEACCH
proponent, Dr Juan Martos, and a prominent Spanish
LOVAAS practitioner, Dr Asun
Puche, explain why educational methods are such
powerful tools for bringing
about improvements in children with autism.
Adam Feinstein, Editor of LOOKING UP, spoke to William Shaw,
Eric
Schopler, Juan Martos, Asun
Puche, Isabel Bayonas (president of APNA - the
Spanish national association
of parents of autistic children) and Kalle
Reichelt, the Norwegian
expert on the opioid peptide theory of autism.
Feinstein also visited a remarkable residential centre for
adults with
autism near Gerona.
ALSO INSIDE THIS LATEST EDITION OF LOOKING UP: The very latest on the
MMR vaccine debate,
including the implications of Dr Andrew Wakefield's most
recent study on the measles
virus.
Why an abnormal glutamate pathway in the brain could provide
a clue to
autism.
Autism Awareness Year 2002:
Britain's largest-ever autism movement
Autistic adults
'misdiagnosed as schizophrenic and locked up' in Scotland.
Diagnosis of autism in US 'rising by 20 per cent a year'.
Why and how do weighted vests help some children with autism
and other
disorders to focus? Amazing mother-and-daughter team defies the
odds.
Autism and siblings: helping the children who get lost in the
shuffle
AUTISM AND THE ARTS: The new Sean Penn movie - Oscar-winner or
cynical
sell-out? You can find more
information at the LOOKING UP web site:
www.LookingUpAutism.org
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content including over 100
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parents with children on the diet. There is a wealth
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Looking for anyone who has
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son tried it out
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