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One in approximately 150 children in the U.S. has been diagnosed with autism. It's estimated half a million Americans under the age of 21 have some form of autism, a condition that tends to wall off the afflicted from the outside world. The degree of this isolation and the behaviors that result vary from person to person so each family has to learn unique ways to cope. A recent series in The Plain Dealer focused attention on a case in which an autistic teen beat his mother to death. The story was cautionary, but experts say it was not typical of autistic behaviors. Mr. Feagler will spend the half hour with Shari Lahm, the mother of a 16-year-old boy with autism; Dr. Max Wiznitzer, director of the University Hospitals Autism Center; Anne Davalla, program coordinator for PEP Harbor, a school for children with autism and other developmental disabilities.
December 25, 2009