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Autism advocates are set to protest tomorrow against a quiet effort by Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration to require annual flu vaccinations for all New York City schoolchildren.

U.S. President Barack Obama hosted the Kennedy Center Honors ceremony for Billy Joel, Shirley MacLaine, Carlos Santana and more in Washington, D.C. The U.S. capital's prestigious awards ceremony honors stars of the stage, screen and concert hall in its annual celebration of the arts.

The family of a former Big Beaver Falls Elementary School student who alleged harassment by other students will get $75,000 under a settlement agreement released today.

Singer Susan Boyle says she has been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism - and is relieved to finally have the right label for her condition.

She rocketed to stardom on Britain's Got Talent singing "I Dreamed A Dream" back in 2009, and now Susan Boyle has revealed why her fame was initially very hard for her to understand and comprehend.

SUSAN Boyle has revealed that she suffers from Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism that affects the ability to communicate and interact socially.

Scottish singer Susan Boyle revealed on Sunday that she has been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism.

Is Katie Couric taking Jenny McCarthy's place as the latest celebrity vaccine denier? If her show this week on the vaccine that prevents most types of cervical cancer is any indicator, the answer is "yes."

Journal of Neurolinguistics , Vol. 24, No. 1. , pp. 41-53, doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2010.07.005 The expressive prosodic abilities of two groups of school-age children with autism spectrum conditions , Asperger's syndrome and high-functioning autism , were compared with those of typically-developing controls.

This recent profile in Vanity Fair is very, very strange, in that it obsesses over Marissa Mayer being very, very strange.

My friends say I should "just use common sense." But few pieces of advice are more frustrating to a mild autistic There is more of a connection between these two things than you might think.

WASHINGTON , December 5, 2013 - Yesterday, Katie Couric aired a show titled the "Big Conversation" which devoted almost 30 minutes to the possibility that human papilloma virus vaccinations may be causing deaths to recipients of the vaccine.

The claims that autism is caused by vaccines have been completely disproven, right? We have all heard that claim, maybe most famously by actress and model Jenny McCarthy.

Offstage, Maya Naleid can be a bit of a wallflower, staring at her feet, lingering in the corner of the room.

What's the difference between having a quirky child and having a child on the autism spectrum? Rhen Helling and his ex-wife found out four years ago.

Last year, producers at Katie Couric's daytime talk show "Katie" reached out to journalist and co-director of MIT's graduate program in science writing Seth Mnookin while researching a show to "better inform the public that still questions links between vaccination and autism and need to better understand the scientific truth."

Ben Swann Truth in Media takes a look at Vaccine Court established by Congress in 1985 and what that court has meant for families of vaccine injured children.

ACCORDING to Dr. Alexis Reyes, a developmental pediatrician and resource speaker during the 13th Annual Autism Conference held in Manila in October 2013, four criteria under the DSM V must be met before an individual may be diagnosed as having autism spectrum disorder.

Fragile X syndrome is a multi-organ disease that leads to mental retardation, macro-orchidism in males and premature ovarian insufficiency in female carriers.