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Tree ID & Tree Art for Autistic Teens and Families
2014-06-02 21:20:04| PortlandOnline
Chesapeake police play, learn with autistic kids
2013-11-04 04:10:22| Paper - Topix.net
Chesapeake police Officer Jennifer Land spent part of her shift on a recent Friday night watching children play at a bounce house.
Transit worker army fans out in hunt for missing autistic teen
2013-10-14 06:07:00| Railroads - Topix.net
New York City transportation officials recently suspended overnight track maintenance and ordered at least 200 workers to hunt through train tunnels for Avonte Oquendo, an autistic teen who vanished on Oct. 4. A Metropolitan Transportation Authority memo spoke to "all-out blitz to locate Avonte .
Deaths of wandering autistic kids prompt action
2013-08-11 18:41:19| Biotech - Topix.net
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated last year that 1 in 88 children are affected by autism, and a federal survey this year pegged the prevalence rate at one of every 50 schoolchildren - more than 1 million children in all.
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SAP Seeks Autistic Employees
2013-05-23 19:37:49| TechNewsWorld
German software heavyweight SAP plans to recruit hundreds of people with autism in a quest to staff employees who "think differently." Autism affects people's ability to communicate and interact socially but has the knock-on effect of creating repetitive -- to the point of obsessive -- behavior. This makes autistic people particularly adept at analyzing data and picking up on details.
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