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  2. The High Cost of Autism: One Parent's Tale - AOL

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    Autism Spectrum Disorders. Having an autistic child can be as big a challenge financially as it can be psychologically. Parents often spend thousands of dollars in the hopes, fleeting as they may ...

  3. Cost-shifting - Wikipedia

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    During discrimination, each segment of the market is offered a price so that the amount of surplus received from each customer group is at its highest level [11] and none of the market segments is unprofitable to a predominantly monopoly producer while cost-shifting is a solution to compensate for one group's lack of payment through another. in ...

  4. Discrimination against autistic people - Wikipedia

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    Stigmatization of autism can also be perpetuated by advertising from autism conversion organizations, such as Autism Speaks' advertising wherein a mother describes having considered murder-suicide in front of her autistic daughter or the NYU Child Study Center's advertisements where autism is personified as a kidnapper holding children for ransom.

  5. Talk:Ethical challenges to autism treatment - Wikipedia

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    Ehm, do you have any sources that show that all ethical issues regarding autism treatment are autism rights related. You can disagree, but if you want a merge, you need to show why. The issue of ethics is a bit wider then ABA and the Autism rights movement, consider for instance facilitated communication. Fenke 19:09, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

  6. Combating Autism Act - Wikipedia

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    The Combating Autism Act of 2006 (Public Law No: 109-416) is an Act of Congress public law that was passed by the 109th United States Congress (Senate Bill 843) and was signed into law by President of the United States George W. Bush on December 19, 2006.

  7. Societal and cultural aspects of autism - Wikipedia

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    Societal and cultural aspects of autism or sociology of autism [1] come into play with recognition of autism, approaches to its support services and therapies, and how autism affects the definition of personhood. [2] The autistic community is divided primarily into two camps: the autism rights movement and the pathology paradigm.

  8. Controversies in autism - Wikipedia

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    The number of children diagnosed with the autism spectrum has increased dramatically since the 1980s, at least partly due to changes in diagnostic practice; it is unclear whether prevalence has actually increased; [3] and as-yet-unidentified environmental risk factors cannot be ruled out. [4]

  9. Michelle Dawson - Wikipedia

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    Michelle Dawson (born 1961) is a Canadian autism researcher who was diagnosed with autism in 1993–1994. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Since 2004, she has worked as an autism researcher [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] affiliated with the Autism Specialized Clinic of Hôpital Rivière-des-Prairies in Montreal, Quebec , Canada.