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AUTISM CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON RISING DISORDER
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US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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October 30, 2006
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The Ohio University's College of Osteopathic Medicine issued the following news release:
Ask someone on the street and the mention of autism might bring to mind Dustin Hoffman's Academy Award-winning portrayal of Raymond Babbitt in the 1988 film "Rain Man." Statistics portray, however, a real world in which encounters with autism are far more frequent than its appearance on the big screen, a reality to be echoed and addressed in the "Focus on Autism: Applied Behavior Analysis and Social Communication" conference at OU-COM.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that autism (frequently referred to as autism spectrum disorders) - a complex developmental disability that ...