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Special education teachers badly needed: Teaching for autistic children hampered

Autistic Kids Education: Todd Yocum’s autistic 8-year-old son has had six teachers since he started pre-school at age 3. Only two of them were licensed to teach autistic children, Yocum said, and the rest were substitutes.
As an assistant principal at Scherkenbach Elementary School, Yocum is sympathetic to the school system’s plight: “They can’t give you [...]

Experienced developmental pediatrician with austism spectrum experience: cure autistic symptom and anxiety

Experienced developmental pediatrician with austism spectrum experience: cases and treatment of autistic symptoms and anxiety
My son is almost 10 and I’ve always known he was never quite the same as other kids.  He’s exceptionally intelligent; he’s in the school district’s gifted program, but his social skills seem to have stopped developing at about age 7.  [...]