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...Americans under age 21 who have been diagnosed with autism. But for decades, autism was considered an exceedingly rare disorder and was viewed as a life sentence. In the 1970s, parents sought out a range of alternative and unconventional treatments. There was patterning (in which the autistic child was retaught to crawl), multivitamin therapy, bee-pollen therapy and various restrictive diets. There was the gentleman who claimed he had cured his son by hugging him a lot - he wrote a best-selling book about it - and others who claimed they had cured their child by teaching...
...cost of teaching Luke. Meanwhile, at Berthoud Elementary, with one-on-one training and a trio of teacher's aides constantly at his side, the third-grader was advancing in such areas as writing the alphabet and using a computer mouse. But those skills had to keep being retaught, and Luke's parents regarded him as falling further behind. After hiring a therapist to observe Luke at school, the Perkinses learned that he was spending a lot of time throwing fits on the floor or hiding under a table. "His behavior was so out of control that education was simply...
...away with all that, or at least stole center stage from it. Lucas didn't serve up intellectual considerations or emotional explorations for his audiences. Instead, he packaged their childhood fantasies and sold that package back to them. Star Wars was not earnest. It was fun. And it retaught American executives that age-old adage of American culture: fun sells...
...conventional wisdom is "at Yale you'retaught by faculty, at Harvard you're taught bygrad students. That's [not true]," Liazos said...
...truly brain-injured. 2) psychotic, 3) genetically brain-deficient. They treat children in any of these groups who have presumably skipped one or more of the creep-crawl-walk stages by prescribing a compulsory retracing of the process. No matter how old they are, the children are painstakingly retaught to creep, then crawl, then walk...