In today's ENR: Deseret News looks at the upcoming expansion of the Carmen B. Pingree
Autism Center of Learning.
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A sense
of mastery is also very valuable to kids with diagnoses such as reactive attachment disorder, bipolar, cognitive
learning disorders, and
autism, says Michael Kaufmann, director
of farm and wildlife at Green Chimneys, a therapeutic day school and residential treatment
center in Putnam County, New York.
Nobody
learns to talk without babbling, says Gordon Ramsay, director
of the Spoken Communication Laboratory at the Marcus
Autism Center in Atlanta.
«We wondered if we could
learn what happens before someone gets
autism,» says Andrew Feinberg, M.D., M.P.H., the King Fahd Professor
of Molecular Medicine and director
of the
Center for Epigenetics at the Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine.
Childhood cancer,
learning disabilities, and
autism can possibly be tied to early exposure to toxins,» says pediatrician Philip Landrigan, director
of Mount Sinai's Children's Environmental Health
Center in New York.
Patients with Alzheimer's disease, Fragile X syndrome, Down syndrome, and
autism are particularly susceptible to seizures, 12 and the focus
of much research at the Waisman
Center of Developmental Disabilities has been on the myriad ways drugs, diet and genetic manipulation can affect amyloid beta levels, seizure threshold and behavioral phenotypes.13 In an editorial entitled «Concocting the Right Diet for Brain Health» published December 2011 in Translational Medicine, Dr. Westmark expressed concern about the risks
of soy: «The prevailing view is soy is healthy, but much remains to be
learned regarding its effects on brain development and function.»
Three
of the new schools will be located in the Bronx: The New York
Center for
Autism Charter School Bronx is a replication
of a school in Harlem, Urban Assembly Charter School for Computer Science will be the first charter high school
of its kind in the city focusing on technical careers, and Brilla College Preparatory Charter School at Highbridge will use blended
learning where kids will spend a quarter
of their time on computers.