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  2. Autism in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The popular book Population One: Autism, Adversity, and the Will to Succeed [22] was released by 17 year old American author Tyler McNamer in August 2013. In the UK, April 2014 saw the BBC broadcast an episode of Horizon entitled "Living with Autism", featuring Uta Frith. [23] [24] The French novel La Surface de reparation was released in 2015.

  3. Facilitated communication - Wikipedia

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    In 2010, Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Reference Handbook mentioned the Autism National Committee (AutCom), a parent-led nonprofit, as the main example of an organization that continued promoting facilitated communication, despite research in the mid-1990s which found that facilitators were doing the communicating rather than the children ...

  4. There's a viral post about a missing autistic child in ... - AOL

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    A viral Facebook post about a supposedly missing child is a scam. It turned up on July 15, 2024 claiming the child is from Mishawaka, but similar posts claim he's from cities all over the United ...

  5. 25 Celebs Who Fell Victim to Scammers - AOL

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    Sidney Poitier. In the late 1980s, a scam artist named Charles Agee Atkins scammed several celebrities into joining a fake tax shelter. This scheme generated phony losses totaling more than $1.3 ...

  6. Controversies in autism - Wikipedia

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    [40] [citation needed] These advocates believe that medical research is necessary to address the rapid rise in autism diagnoses (sometimes referred to as the "autism epidemic"), [40] reduce suffering, and provide the best outcomes for autistic individuals. In addition to etiological research, other areas of focus may include biology, diagnosis ...

  7. Rapid prompting method - Wikipedia

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    [12] [13] Vyse has noted that rather than proponents of RPM subjecting the methodology to properly controlled validation research, they have responded to criticism by going on the offensive, claiming that scientific criticisms of the technique rob people with autism of their right to communicate, [9] while the authors of a 2019 review concluded ...

  8. Societal and cultural aspects of autism - Wikipedia

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    The pathology paradigm advocates for supporting research into therapies, treatments, and/or a cure to help minimize or remove autistic traits, seeing treatment as vital to help individuals with autism, while the neurodiversity movement believes autism should be seen as a different way of being and advocates against a cure and interventions that ...

  9. Autism Research Institute - Wikipedia

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    Its "highest rated" autism treatment was chelation therapy, which involves removing heavy metals from the body. [7] Its chelation treatment was not supported by mainstream doctors. [8] Doctors told the Chicago Tribune the treatments were dangerous and that misleading tests were used to show that those with autism had a high rate of heavy metals ...