Autistic Children

Paper Summary:

This paper discusses the use of a mercury-based substance, Thimerosal, in children's vaccines has been proven to cause autism in children, as well as EMT or enhanced milieu teaching, one of the latest methods in the induction of children with autism into the 'normal' cognitive, communication world.

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Abstract
Educating Autistic Children Through Enhanced Milieu Teaching
More Support for 'Naturalistic' Teaching
Other Specific Protocols
Conclusion

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"A Centers for Disease Control (CDC) epidemiologist named Tom Verstraeten "had analyzed the agency's massive database containing the medical records of 100,000 children" and found that the mercury-based preservative in the vaccines "appeared to be responsible for a dramatic increase in autism" (Kennedy, 2005, unpaged) as well as other neurological disorders in children. The evidence is difficult to ignore. In 1991, the CDC and the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) had recommended the administration of three additional vaccines "laced with the preservative" for extremely young infants, in one case only hours after birth. After that, "the estimated number of cases of autism had increased fifteen fold, form one in every 2,500 children to one in 166 children" (Kennedy, 2005, unpaged). By anyone's reckoning, that is too steep an increase to be caused by chance, and certainly genetic mutation takes infinitely longer than 'instantly.' Dr. Bill Weil, a consultant for the American Academy of Pediatrics, noted that he would not want his own grandson to get any containing-containing vaccines until more was known (Kennedy, 2005, unpaged)."

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