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		<title>Steven R. Forness</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/07/steven-r-forness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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S. R. Forness and J. W. Lloyd, 2005
Sometimes I get to hang around with some really wonderful contributors to the study of emotional and behavior disorders, and the accompanying photo shows one of those occasions. That&#8217;s Steven R. Forness, whom I was holding down so that he would not float away into the ether, one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad science?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an editorial under the headline &#8220;Bad science gets its due,&#8221; the editors of the Boston (MA) Globe lament the consequences of Andrew Wakefield&#8217;s promotion of a connection between vaccines and Autism. At the end of the piece, the editorialist makes an important point:
But sadder still is the possibility that, in the minds of thousands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carter talks sense</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I rarely point to posts on the Huffington Posts, but an entry by Liane Kupferberg Carter entitled &#8220;Autism: A time for civility&#8221; deserves recognition. Ms. Carter, the mother of a child with Autism, notes how factionation (if I may create than word) among people with interests in Autism has created divides not needed. The basic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US legislators consider law for preventing abusive restraint and seclusion</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2010/02/us-legislators-consider-law-for-preventing-abusive-restraint-and-seclusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Congress is considering legislation to prevent abusive restraint and seclusion of students in schools. This is a welcome consequence of the highly visible reports about terrible abuses of students&#8217; right to be free from harm. However, as much as I support this initiative, it is important to make clear that the laws (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia Campaign for Children’s Mental Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[



Twelve key children’s services for community services boards




specialized children’s emergency services;
crisis stabilization;
evaluations for Comprehensive Services Act services;
psychiatric/medication;
office-based mental health therapy;
office-based substance abuse therapy;
mental health case management; 
intellectual disabilities case management;
substance abuse case management;
home-based behavioral treatment and support for families;
school-based day treatment; and
local residential services.





Right here in my home commonwealth of Virginia last week, Mira Signe, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secretin reminder</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2009/08/secretin-reminder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://EBDBlog.com/?p=908</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I have followed the promotion of secretin as a treatment for Autism pretty much since the first reports about it, I hadn&#8217;t checked on it lately. My initial foray into the topic in 1998 resulted in some skepticism with hedges. As the research evolved, it became clear that the skepticism was warranted.   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media matters</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2009/07/media-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent posts about news coverage of mental illness (e.g., &#8220;Danny Watt&#8217;s Story&#8221; and &#8220;Jani Illustrates Troubles&#8220;) has had me thinking about how popular media portray these problems. Over on Psych Central, Margarita Tartakovsky has an article entitled &#8220;Media’s Damaging Depictions of Mental Illness&#8221; that I recommend to readers of EBD Blog. In addition to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering seclusion and restraint</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2009/04/remembering-seclusion-and-restraint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on her Ed Week blog, Christina Samuels posted an entry entitled, &#8220;Use of Seclusion, Restraints on Students at Issue: Watchdog agency preparing report on practices.&#8221;  She reports not only about current efforts to keep awareness of the issue high, but also about the sometimes-tragic background on the issue. 
In my view, paddling and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanford Medicine Magazine</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2009/04/stanford-medicine-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The spring 2009 issue of Stanford Medicine Magazine, a publication of the Stanford University School of Medicine, examines the turmoil swirling around vaccines. In &#8220;Hot Shots: Vaccines under the gun&#8221; one can read any of ten articles (not counting an introductory comment by Rosalyn Carter):

The demonization of immunization: Shots get the once-over
What is a vaccine? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lest we forget about teaching academics</title>
		<link>http://EBDBlog.com/2009/03/lest-we-forget-about-teaching-academics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve harped on this a couple of times before, but I&#8217;m returning to it because it is very important. We have to resist the sirens&#8217; call to ignore academic instruction for students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. Just as much as their peers who do not have disabilities, these pupils need to learn the skills [...]]]></description>
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