Consortium Formed To Fight Autism
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- May
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From GNS reporter Dan Osburn:
State legislators and mental health workers applauded the creation of a new statewide autism agenda today.
A new multi-agency “autism consortium” will be formed and hopes to create a statewide registry of people with autism and increase research and training for teachers and other professionals who interact with people with autism, said state Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Commissioner Diana Jones Ritter.
The consortium will “provide the infrastructure, resources and collaboration necessary to best advance basic and applied research in this critical area,” she said.
The new platform adopted by the state Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities includes provisions for increasing autism research and increased cooperation between the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, the state health department and state education, she said.
The state Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental currently supports more than 16,000 people with autism or autism-spectrum disorders in the state.
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We can look at the published research over the last 50 years and find out that older paternal age is a risk factor for non-familial autism. http://autism-prevention.blogspot.com/