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		<title>Autistic Boy Charged with Making Terroristic Threats Over Stick Figure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a story about a school disciplinary action from Sandy Springs, Georgia about an autistic student drew an objectionable sketch.  The story is notable for the school&#8217;s excessive, over-reaching reaction.  In Autistic Boy Charged With Making Terrorist Threats Over Stick-Figure Sketch, one learns that a fourteen-year old boy is 

facing terrorist charges after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=81</link>
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		<title>Oakstone Academy Promotional Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, I posted an Associated Press story about Oakstone Academy, an elementary and middle school with a mixture of autistic and non-autistic students.  The story did not describe the proportion of each group, and neither does a promotional video from the school.
Still, the video is suggestive of a large number of autistic students. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=80</link>
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		<title>Ohio School Mixes Autistics and Non-Autistics Together</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a very brief story from the Associated Press about Oakstone Academy in central Ohio.  The school has reportedly become popular for its approach of mixing autistics and non-autistics in classrooms, with a significant portion of autistics.
Well worth learning more.
The story is available at Ohio School Mixes Autistics and Non-Autistics Together.
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		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=77</link>
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		<title>Autism Pioneer Stanley Greenspan Dies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CNN reports that autism pioneer and child psychologist Dr. Stanley Greenspan died last Tuesday at the age of sixty-eight.  
Greenspan was known for his &#8220;floor-time approach,&#8221; in which parents were encouraged to seek a relationship based approach with autistics rather than a behavioral approach.   
Countless children were helped in this way, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=74</link>
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		<title>California: Families Sue Over Discontinued Autism Therapy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Families Sue Over Discontinued Autism Therapy
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		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=73</link>
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		<title>Autism, WiFi, and Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some months ago, there were any number of reports that there was a correlation between increased use of Wi-Fi, and other communications technologies, and incidence of autism.  An example of such a report can be found from Business Wire, entitled, &#8220;Research on Correlation Between Autism, Cell Phones, and Wireless Computers by Tamara Mariea.&#8221;
That&#8217;s correlation, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=63</link>
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		<title>Lead in Toys</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at AutismVox, there&#8217;s a justifiably skeptical post about a letter to the editor suggesting that lead in toys might be responsible for the supposed &#8216;autism epidemic.&#8217;
I know of no solid medicine supporting a lead-toy-to-autism hypothesis, but the plaintiff&#8217;s bar may find a reputed expert, somewhere.  It&#8217;s likely that there will be lawsuits over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=62</link>
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		<title>Happy Father&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Best wishes to dads everywhere for a great Father&#8217;s Day.  Here&#8217;s a picture of my late father, when he was only three years old, from Wyoming.

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		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=54</link>
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		<title>Parents Have Independent, Substantive Rights Under IDEA: Winkleman v. Parma City School District (Part 3 of 3).</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 21st, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in Winkelman v. Parma City School District.  The court held that IDEA grants parents independent, enforceable rights (beyond mere procedural matters) regarding entitlement to a free appropriate public education for their children.  (Readers may find the syllabus, opinion, and concurring opinion of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=48</link>
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		<title>Memorial Day 2007</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Memorial Day.  My late father served with distinction with the Ninth Infantry Division in the Second World War, and he and countless others have earned the thanks of our nation.  
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		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=44</link>
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		<title>Parents Have Independent, Substantive Rights Under IDEA: Winkelman v. Parma City School District. (Part 2 of 3).</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 21st, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in Winkelman v. Parma City School District.  The court held that IDEA grants parents independent, enforceable rights (beyond mere procedural matters) regarding entitlement to a free appropriate public education for their children.  In this, the second of three posts, I will analyze [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=42</link>
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		<title>Parents Have Independent, Substantive Rights Under IDEA: Winkelman v. Parma City School District. (Part 1 of 3).</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 21st, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision in Winkelman v. Parma City School District.  The court held that IDEA grants parents independent, enforceable rights (beyond mere procedural matters) regarding entitlement to a free appropriate public education for their children.  In this post, I will summarize the basic facts, legal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=41</link>
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		<title>Autism Awareness Walk: June 3rd, Manitowoc, WI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those in eastern Wisconsin, there will be a Sunday, June 3rd Autism Awareness Walk in Manitowoc, Wisconsin beginning at 1 p.m.  The event promises &#8220;live entertainment, food, many wonderful raffle prizes&#8230;&#8221; but the real benefit is meeting others who support autism awareness.  The event will take place at the Lincoln Field House [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=39</link>
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		<title>Religious Education and Autism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over at AutismVox, Kristina Chew posts about a conference last year, on autism and advocacy, that included discussion of religious education for those with autism.  Her post includes several links, and it&#8217;s all interesting reading.
It&#8217;s a topic about which I have not yet posted, but which is of great interest.  I&#8217;ll make a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=34</link>
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		<title>Subway v. Kiwi Autistic Worker Sharing Soda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED 5/15/07:  Criminal charge dropped; public-relations stupidity of Subway franchisee remains.
There&#8217;s a story circulating this morning about a worker at a New Zealand Subway sandwich shop being fired for sharing her complementary Diet Coke with a friend.  The Sidney Morning Herald reports that Jackie Lang, who has Asperger&#8217;s, was (1) dismissed for sharing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=32</link>
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		<title>Therapist&#8217;s Income as 15% of Clinic&#8217;s Fee?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spoke with someone recently who told me that workers at a clinic (called specialists of various types) who deliver in-home, non-insured, autism therapy receive only 15% of the fee that parents pay for the therapy.  The fee is out-of-pocket to the autistic child&#8217;s family, and thus is not reduced by an insurance coverage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=31</link>
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		<title>Lawyers Learning from Psychology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AutismDiva writes about ten intellectual benefits of an undergraduate degee in psychology on her blog.  Like many lawyers, I do not have a background in psychology.  (I received an undergraduate degree in political science, with specialization in political theory &#8212; i.e., political philosophy &#8212; and my undergraduate thesis was on Rawls&#8217; Theory of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=30</link>
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		<title>Autism in Illiberal Britain.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are often reminded that our liberal political heritage derives from Britain, but thats true only partly.  Our heritage does come from Britain, but only a part of a broader British experience: the classical liberal tradition we inherited shares space in British history with conflicting interventionist, restrictive, illiberal, and autocratic experiences.  We fortunately [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=27</link>
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		<title>The Plaintiffâ€™s Bar, Personal Injury, and Autism.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago, I wrote lawyers that often consider themselves medical experts after reading articles about a disability, and then imagining that theyre up-to-speed on the subject.  What they read is often the most simple, least accurate account, from a newspaper or newsweekly. 
The same is true of laypeople, of course.  Law, medicine, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=25</link>
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		<title>Popularity, Unpopularity, and Legal Representation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many parents hope that their children will be popular: admired, destined for student assembly, homecoming, the prom, etc.  Parents of children with autism may have simpler concerns: that their children will be respected, included, and uninjured.  In countless schools across America, the autistic student  if he is part of the general population [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=26</link>
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		<title>Excursion: Lewis Black on Earth Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My oldest son enjoys Lewis Black&#8217;s comedy; I know little about Black, and so I cannot vouch for every opinion, routine, etc., the comedian has (then again, who could?).  I can vouch, however, for this clever commentary on celebrities and Earth Day.
Enjoy.

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		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=24</link>
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		<title>Differently-Labeled People Getting Along</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kristina Chew of AutismVox has an always-interesting blog, with a perspective that&#8217;s different from mine (and that&#8217;s one of the reasons that I like her blog).  Here&#8217;s Dr.  Chew on her hope of labeling leading to a positive end:
Charlies [her sons] diagnosis happened much earlier than either mine or Jims [her husband]: He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=18</link>
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		<title>Podcast #1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lex Autism Podcast for Sunday, February 25, 2007  Show Notes:  Why Lex Autism? Lakeland School lawsuit Advocacy as Clarity  Lawyers and Medical News in the Popular Press  
Download Podcast 1]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=15</link>
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		<title>Lawyers and Popular Accounts of Medical Studies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most lawyers have hobbies in which they&#8217;re knowledgeable.  A good lawyer shows attention to detail, and that skill may be useful learning a hobby like stamp collecting, embroidery, or baseball statistics.  All well and good, but not exactly a second vocation.  The true polymath is rare.  When lawyers start to tell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=13</link>
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		<title>Advocacy as Clarity: Autism Diva</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s more than one skill useful to lawyers, but expressing a clear point of view, a memorable advocacy, is a most useful one.  Too often, one meets young lawyers who think that all statements on behalf of clients should be expressed in the alternative, lest any possible, theoretical position be foregone.  Non-lawyers rightly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.slinkard.com/blog/?p=12</link>
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		<title>Lex Autism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was the habit of jurists in Ancient Rome, and in the Middle Ages, to describe what they considered a coherent field of law, or the law of a specific people, as a modifier of Lex, law: for example, the Lex Mercatoria (merchant or commercial law) or the Lex Gothica (law of the Goths).  [...]]]></description>
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