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...impaired but brilliant animal scientist who, despite her disability - or in many ways, because of it - has achieved enormous success in two arenas: as designer of humane cattle-handling facilities and an author and outspoken voice on autism. The movie, Temple Grandin, tracks Grandin's early years as a child who had no speech and very little connection to the world at age four, through her painful humiliations in school, to her ultimate success in cowboy country. Claudia Wallis talked to Grandin, now 62 and a professor of animal science at Colorado State University, about the biopic...
...emphasize that not everyone on the autism spectrum is a visual thinker. Some are mathematic-patterns kinds of thinkers. Some are word people. People on the spectrum tend to be specialist thinkers - good at one thing and bad at others. (See six tips for traveling with an autistic child...
...every child is getting exactly what they need,” he said, describing the distinct gap between white and Asian students and other groups including low-income students and those with special needs as “immoral...
...lecturing frequently and spending so much time in television studios that he carried his own makeup. Elmendorf rarely gives a television interview and says he is still startled when someone recognizes him as he is commuting home on the subway. (Orszag, who was recently discovered to have fathered a child with a former girlfriend, now enjoys a different kind of notoriety...
...Well-intentioned or not, the group has angered Haitians who worry about their country's eroding laws and sovereignty, and raises the disturbing issue of children who really are in danger. The quake has left thousands of orphans vulnerable to being preyed upon by child traffickers and those who perpetuate Haiti's shameful tradition of keeping child slaves, known as restaveks. Restavek in Creole means "to stay with," an innocuous term for a far more sinister practice: children "stay with" more affluent families as slaves, and like most slaves, they're usually subject to physical, emotional and sexual abuse...