Archive for April, 2009
Anti-Gay Bullying Leads To Suicide
Eleven-year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover hung himself after enduring daily taunts at school about being gay. This child’s death is one of several middle-school aged child suicides linked to bullying this year. Carl, a junior at New Leadership Charter School in Springfield, MA, who did not identify as gay, would have turned 12 on April 17 […]
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April Is Autism Awareness Month
Today, 1 in 150 individuals is diagnosed with autism, making it more common than pediatric cancer, diabetes, and AIDS combined. And according to the U.S. Department of Education, autism is growing at a rate of 10-17% per year.
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are pervasive development disorders that characteristically include communication and social interaction impairment, and repetitive […]
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