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...American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) would like to change this. At its annual meeting, held in San Francisco on Monday, the AAP released two reports: one aimed at helping pediatricians recognize autism spectrum disorders - in all their varieties - by age 2 and the other at providing guidance for early intervention. At the same time the AAP formally recommended that all pediatricians routinely screen for autism at ages 18 months and 2 years and announced it was making a new "toolkit" of diagnostic information available to all its members - for about...
...AAP had already recommended routine screening for autism in 2006, but the new recommendations are more specific and backed by more information for practitioners. Two screenings are needed - one at 18 months and one at 24 months, explains Dr. Scott Meyers, who authored one of the reports, because about a quarter of children with ASD appear to develop normally at first and then regress - losing early language and social behavior - sometime between 15 and 24 months...
Neither the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) nor the American Psychological Association (APA) has come out fully against the practice. In 1998 the former issued a statement that said, in part, "Spanking is only effective when used in selective, infrequent situations." An APA statement permits similar wiggle room: "There is difference of opinion within the psychology community about spanking. But there is general concern that if and when spanking might lead to more severe forms of corporal punishment, parents should avoid...
...Association of American Publishers (AAP) filed a lawsuit against Google on Tuesday for the search engine’s practice of digitally scanning copyrighted works from several libraries, including Harvard’s, without the publisher’s permission.The AAP’s filing is the second lawsuit this fall against Google and its Print Library Project, which scans volumes at Harvard, the University of Michigan, Stanford University, Oxford University, and the New York Public Library. The Authors Guild, a society of published authors, also filed a copyright lawsuit last month.With its lawsuit, the AAP is seeking a declaratory...
...Kumin’s spat with the AAP is entirely absent from “Inside the Halo and Beyond,” her diary (written partially ex-post facto) from the last half of 1998. Indeed, that year of her life will forever be defined by a “perfect midsummer day”—July 21, 1998—which launched a long nightmare from which Kumin is still emerging...