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	<title>TS+, The Tourette Syndrome &#34;Plus&#34; Blog</title>
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		<title>Federal Circuit Rules No Link between Autism and Vaccine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Blog of Legal Times: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has just upheld lower court findings that reject a causal connection between childhood vaccines and the onset of autism. The ruling came in Cedillo v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, which was the first of a series of test [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tsplusblog.com/2010/08/federal-circuit-rules-no-link-between-autism-and-vaccine/</link>
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		<title>Tell the Senate to Get Off the Dime on H.R. 4247</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In March of this year, H.R. 4247,  Keeping All Students Safe Act, passed in the House and was sent to the Senate where it was read once and referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. And there it has seemingly languished in committee while children continue to be put at risk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tsplusblog.com/2010/08/tell-the-senate-to-get-off-the-dime-on-h-r-4247/</link>
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		<title>Back to School Tip #6:  Medication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Regardless of whether your child takes medication only at home or takes medication in school, there are steps to take to protect their safety. For Children Taking Medication Only at Home If your child is changing schools this year, do you know for sure whether their medical records and notes you may have sent the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tsplusblog.com/2010/08/back-to-school-tip-6-medication/</link>
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		<title>Thrown out of the movies because of Tourette’s Syndrome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a family member of someone with Tourette&#8217;s, this news clip from KWCH in Kansas will be upsetting and may leave you thinking that the movie theater in question violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): &#160; Does the statement on the back of the ticket make it legally permissible for the movie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tsplusblog.com/2010/08/thrown-out-of-the-movies-because-of-tourettes-syndrome/</link>
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		<title>Victims of bullying suffer academically as well, UCLA psychologists report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stuart Wolpert describes some new research out of UCLA on the impact of bullying: Students who are bullied regularly do substantially worse in school, UCLA psychologists report in a special issue of the Journal of Early Adolescence devoted to academic performance and peer relationships. The UCLA study was conducted with 2,300 students in 11 Los [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tsplusblog.com/2010/08/victims-of-bullying-suffer-academically-as-well-ucla-psychologists-report/</link>
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		<title>NYC DOE fails SpEd, Black, and Hispanic students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two reports came across my desk yesterday that each demonstrate what I think is an appalling failure of the New York City educational system. No matter how the city may try to spin it, performance measures on standardized tests show that overall, NYC students lag behind the state average in English and Language Arts (ELA) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tsplusblog.com/2010/08/nyc-doe-fails-sped-black-and-hispanic-students/</link>
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		<title>Back to School Tip #5:  Lost at School &#8211; Literally?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If your child is changing schools, and especially if they are going into a new middle school or high school, they may be very anxious about not knowing their way around. Although all kids have some level of anxiety about going to a new school &#8212; and you can remind your child that all kids [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tsplusblog.com/2010/08/back-to-school-tip-5-lost-at-school-literally/</link>
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		<title>Back to School Tip #4: Can they manage their clothes? Their lunch?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether or not your child has had a growth spurt over the summer, chances are that they will need some new clothes for school.   Many parents, wanting to help their child create a good first impression with the teacher and peers, carefully pick out a new outfit for the first day of school. Sometimes what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tsplusblog.com/2010/08/back-to-school-tip-4-can-they-manage-their-clothes-their-lunch/</link>
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		<title>Back to School Tip #3: Structure and routine boost homework compliance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many parents are probably already anticipating homework battles when school resumes, so this might be a good time to think about what routines and rules you will establish about homework. Have you already considered where your child will do their homework so that they have a quiet area to work with help available and no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tsplusblog.com/2010/08/back-to-school-tip-3-structure-and-routine-boost-homework-compliance/</link>
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		<title>Nearly 1 million children potentially misdiagnosed with ADHD, study finds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This press release from Michigan State University is sure to have some parents wondering whether their children may have been misdiagnosed: Nearly 1 million children in the United States are potentially misdiagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder simply because they are the youngest – and most immature – in their kindergarten class, according to new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tsplusblog.com/2010/08/nearly-1-million-children-potentially-misdiagnosed-with-adhd-study-finds/</link>
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		<title>A School District That Takes the Isolation Out of Autism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Winerip had a really up-beat story about Wisconsin schools and autistic students in the New York Times a few weeks ago. It begins: Garner Moss has autism and when he was finishing fifth grade, his classmates made a video about him, so the new students he would meet in the bigger middle school would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tsplusblog.com/2010/08/a-school-district-that-takes-the-isolation-out-of-autism/</link>
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		<title>Side effect risks of using atypical neuroleptics in treating Tourette’s Syndrome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The current pharmacological management for the tics of Tourette&#8217;s Syndrome usually consists of either a trial of clonidine or an atypical neuroleptic such as Risperdal, Geodon, Abilify, or Seroquel. Some atypical neuroleptics may be more effective in tic suppression than clonidine, but they have a more problematic side effect profile. A new study by Drs. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tsplusblog.com/2010/08/side-effect-risks-of-using-atypical-neuroleptics-in-treating-tourettes-syndrome/</link>
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		<title>Defense strategy contributes to dangerous misperception of Tourette&#8217;s Syndrome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been a long-time proponent of &#8220;splitting&#8221; diagnoses as opposed to &#8220;lumping&#8221; them together, which is why I originally coined the term, &#8220;TS+&#8221; &#8211; to remind people that some symptoms are not really due to Tourette&#8217;s Syndrome but to features of other co-morbid conditions that are also present. A news story out of Pennsylvania [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tsplusblog.com/2010/08/defense-strategy-contributes-to-dangerous-misperception-of-tourettes-syndrome/</link>
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		<title>Back to School Tip #2:  Re-establish wake-up time and routines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the great things about summer is that the kids can sleep late. For some of us, that means a break from the morning hassles that started so many of our days. But if you think that you can get your child back into an appropriate sleep cycle if you start the weekend before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tsplusblog.com/2010/08/back-to-school-tip-2-re-establish-wake-up-time-and-routines/</link>
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		<title>Goodbye to the ADHD Patch: After 9 Recalls and a Federal Probe, Shire Gives Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jim Edwards reports on BNET that come November, the Daytrana patch may no longer be available as Shire has divested itself of any involvement with the medication. Noven, which originally developed the medication, has indicated that it will re-introduce Daytrana sometime in 2011.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tsplusblog.com/2010/08/goodbye-to-the-adhd-patch-after-9-recalls-and-a-federal-probe-shire-gives-up/</link>
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