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Carol Greenwood
Date:
May 13 21:47 UTC
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Andy Driscoll, Producer/Host
Lynnell Mickelsen, Co-host
*Truth to Tell & CivicMedia/Minnesota
KFAI Radio, 90.3 Minneapolis/106.7 St. Paul/Streamed@ KFAI.org
*651-293-9039 / Fax: (same, call ahead) / Cell: 651-492-2221
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_WEDNESDAY, May 14, 11:00AM: /_WHY AUTISM?...and why so much of it?
_/KFAI Radio*, 90.3 Minneapolis /106.7 St. Paul / <email obscured> –
A *CivicMedia/Minnesota* production
*/What is going on here?/* Incidences of children’s brain disorders
appear to be nearly epidemic. 1 of every 150 children are afflicted with
some form of autism (1 of every 90 boys). But why? Genetics play a major
role, but, more analysts are looking at mercury-bearing vaccines and
environmental factors as coincident with massive increases in all sorts
of children’s ill health – asthma, ADHD and autism spectrum disorders.
Autism, Asperger’s, and related behavioral disorders are seen in light
of poor air and water quality, poverty, and immunization vaccines. Not
all victims, parents, advocates, researchers and public health officials
agree.
One item is not in doubt: the explosion in cases of autism and
Asperger’s is stirring debate among all of them, some of it very loud
and angry, as we struggle with the cause and effect of it all. */TTT’/s
Andy Driscoll *and *Lynnell Mickelsen* talk with parents and
professionals – and walking examples of the difficulties faced by
children and young adults displaying autistic behavior on this segment
*GUESTS INVITED:
• NANCY HOKKANEN, Parent/Advocate, Autism Spectrum Disorder
• ANNE HARRINGTON, Autism Services, Minneapolis Public Schools’ Early
Childhood Special Education
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