Tag: Awareness
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15 Tips for Teaching the Highly Functioning ASD Child
The needs of a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the classroom can be very different from those of typical students in the class—even high-functioning…
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Understanding Asperger’s: A Teacher’s Guide
Students with Asperger’s syndrome present a unique set of challenges—challenges that many teachers are not provided with the appropriate training for. This can make welcoming a…
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What is PDD?
Pervasive developmental disorders (often shortened to PDD) is a term used to refer to a group of conditions that cause a delay in the development of…
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Using Awareness Days To Raise Funds
Do you have a cause you support? Do you want to support the cause, but have no money to donate yourself? Do you want to earn…
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Pediatric Cancer: Managing the Side Effects of Treatment
Thanks to great strides that have been made in cancer treatments, more children who get cancer survive now than ever before—more than 80 percent of children…
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How Wearing Your Cause Supports and Spreads Awareness
These days, almost every supports at least one cause. Whether you focus your time and energy on autism awareness, animal rights, finding a cure for cancer,…
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Interacting With Autism
If you are a parent, hearing a diagnosis of autism in your child can be a scary situation. Older teens and adults who are diagnosed later…
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Autism and Immunization: Is There a Connection?
In the later part of the 1990s, parents suddenly began to fear for the health of their children based on a research paper that claimed to…
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Are Children Conceived in Winter More Likely to Develop Autism?
Expecting parents are always concerned with whether or not there is something they can do to ensure the health of their children. Recently, studies have turned…
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