Contents of Volume 5 Number 8

[Autism Announcements]

Hi everyone,
The contents of Looking Up Volume 5, Number 8 are now available via our Back Issue page at http://www.lookingupautism.org/Back-Issues/ or directly from http://www.lookingupautism.org/Back-Issues/vol05.08.html
See below for a copy of the contents.
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VOLUME 5 NUMBER 8, 2012, 40-page Print Edition

AUTISM AND THE EMERGENCY SERVICES:

• Police who handcuffed autistic boy fight ruling against them
  
• Autistic teenager wrongly taken for drunk
• Spanish firemen to the rescue - thanks for autism course
  
• DENNIS DEBBAUDT, the world’s leading authority on training the emergency services to recognise and understand autism, tells Looking Up about some of the latest developments
  

GARY McKINNON:  THE END OF THE STORY?

RESEARCH NEWS:

• Use of folic acid linked to lower risk of autism
• Hopeful results from language study
  
• New valproate exposure finding
  
• Timing within sections of brain's 'orchestra' is off in autism
  
• Over-active brain region 'hinders social interaction'
• Scientists identify genetic mutation that may underlie autistic behaviours
• Could some girls be 'protected' from risks of autism?
  
• Experts urge caution over 'recovery' study

AROUND THE GLOBE:

• How Asperger's syndrome saved a life
  
• Italian police arrest autism 'curer'
  
• Japanese court reduces jail term of killer with Asperger's syndrome
  
• Tapas for autism - an appetising way to raise funds for autism in Zaragoza
  
• Epic walk for autism in China
  

AUTISM IN RUSSIA:

• Battle is still being waged against social stigma
  
• A very 'special' school

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONIQUE:   Monique Post on 'Unexpected lessons'

FEEDING PROBLEMS IN AUTISM:   Handy tips on how to deal with complex eaters

EMPLOYMENT:    How jobs are growing with the plants