60 Minutes, Anesthesia, and the ATEC

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60 Minutes

The 60 Minutes segment on the autism-vaccine connection is scheduled to

air on Sunday, November 12 (CBS, 7 pm). This will be an extra-long

segment that will be a real shocker and eye-opener to most viewers.

IMPORTANT! If you think 60 Minutes did a good job on the autism-vaccine

issue, please let them know:

By phone: 212-975-3247

By fax: 212-977-2019

We need to encourage autism coverage!

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Anesthesia and Autism

A useful new article titled ‘Anesthesia and Autism,’ written by Louise

Kirz, M.D. was recently added to ARI’s web site

<http://www.autism.com/ari>.

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Control Group Children Needed for ATEC

The Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist (ATEC), developed by the

Autism Research Institute, is a one-page checklist designed to evaluate

the effectiveness of various treatments for autistic individuals. The

ATEC is available on the Internet at http://www.autism.com/atec and can

be

scored online. We are now gathering control group data to see how well

the ATEC differentiates autistic children from their normal,

non-autistic

siblings; other normal, non-autistic children; and non-autistic children

diagnosed with AD/HD, dyslexia, ADD, mental retardation, etc. You can

help us in this effort by filling out ATEC forms for one or more

non-autistic children. Ask your friends with non-autistic children to

fill out an ATEC

on each child at our Non-Autistic Control Group web site. Once you enter

the data for a child, you will immediately be given the child’s scores

on

four subtests: (1) Speech/Language/Communication, (2) Sociability, (3)

Sensory/Cognitive Awareness, (4) Health/Physical/Behavior, and a Total

Score. The ATEC for control group data is located at:

<http://www.autism.com/atec/control>