mixed news
27/2/20061. There is mixed news this time. Firstly, there was a sad end to yet another
case of an autistic child going missing. The body of eight-year-old Jared
McGuire was found on February 24 in a shallow pond several hundred feet from his
home in The Pines townhouse development in Palm Beach, Florida.
An autopsy will be conducted to determine the time and cause of death. There
were no obvious signs of trauma and the boy was fully clothed. The investigation
continues.
One witness had reported seeing Jared being forced into a van before he
disappeared. "We are still looking into the abduction angle," said Deputy Ray
Griffith, of the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office. But he said that, because the boy
was found only about 100 yards from his home, a kidnapping appeared less likely.
Flyers with the boy's picture still hung throughout this neighbourhood of
two-storey apartment buildings. "Autistic. Please Help!" the flyers read.
This case provided another salutary reminder of how closely children with autism
have to be watched – especially near water.
In striking contrast, in a heartwarming story from Rochester, New York,
an autistic teenager’s dream of playing basketball came true when Jason
McElwain, who had been the manager of the varsity basketball team of Greece
Athena High School in Rochester, got his chance, with Greece Athena up by
double-digits with four minutes go to. And, in a moment out of a Hollywood
movie, McElwain sank six three-pointers and another shot, for a total of 20
points in three minutes.
"I've had a lot of thrills in coaching," said the team’s coach, Jim Johnson,
"I've coached a lot of wonderful kids. But I've never experienced such a
thrill."
The crowd went wild, and his teammates carried the excited McElwain off the
court. "I felt like a celebrity!" he beamed.
McElwain's mother sees it as a milestone for her son. "This is the first moment
Jason has ever succeeded (and could be) proud of himself," reflects Debbie
McElwain. "I look at autism as the Berlin Wall, and he cracked it."
His teammates couldn't be happier. "He's a cool kid," said one. “He brings
humour and life to the team."
In another positive story, this time on the research front, the meeting
in St Louis of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was told
that people with autism were more intelligent and able to function better than
previously believed but that mistrust of doctors, biased tests and the Internet
had bred myths about the condition.
Researchers presented reports showing that even people with autism who do not
speak can have above-average intelligence. They also offered additional studies
disputing claims that vaccines can cause autism.
"The current figures are that 75 per cent of autistic people are mentally
retarded, with the mute the most ... impaired," says the Canadian researcher, Dr
Laurent Mottron, an autism specialist at Montreal's Hôpital
Rivière-des-Prairies.
But Dr Mottron believes the wrong intelligence tests are used to assess autistic
children.Many are tested using the Wechsler scale, a common IQ test that
includes questions about words and concepts learned in school. The Raven's
Progressive Matrices test measures abstract reasoning and consistently gives
autistic children higher scores, Dr Mottron says.
The average boost in score is 30 points, Dr Mottron says, enough to put someone
previously considered mentally retarded into the normal range and the average to
gifted status.
Dr Mottron was so impressed by the abilities of one autistic student, Michelle
Dawson, that he made her a co-author of some of his papers.
Among other people who spoke about autism to the St Louis meeting was Professor
Morton Gernsbacher, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who questioned a
common idea among autism researchers that autistic people lack a "theory of
mind." This, among other things, gives an ability to empathise with others.
Again, she says, the wrong tests are used to assess this ability.
Dr Judith Grether, a California epidemiologist, says she questions the idea that
there is a new autism epidemic. She says it is impossible to find out how many
cases of autism there were in the past, because many people with autism were
often diagnosed as retarded, or never diagnosed. Without that information, it is
impossible to say if the number of cases has grown, she says. "We have to do the
studies to find the answers," she says.
Dr Grether says United States researchers have begun taking pre-natal blood
samples from pregnant women and will look for clues when and if some of their
children are diagnosed with autism. They are examining hormones, heavy metals,
immune system proteins and other factors.
The studies found no link with vaccines, says Dr Irving Gottesman, a
psychiatrist at the University of Minnesota, but says the US Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention has initiated four studies "to tie up the loose ends."
New studies are focusing on genetic susceptibilities. Dr Gottesman says the
studies may help to ease the fears of parents that a vaccine-autism link has
been covered up. But he says scientists are battling a plethora of websites
devoted to the idea that mercury causes autism.
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legal struggles feature prominently among the latest autism connect
16/2/2006Hello,
Contents:
1. Latest news
Key addresses:
1. www.autismconnect.org
2. www.autismjobs.org
3. www.awares.org
1. Legal struggles feature prominently among the latest AutismConnect news
items.
In Spokane, Washington State, a jury rejected a $4.1 million lawsuit by a woman
who said she was severely injured by her autistic adopted son after the state
ordered her to stop locking him in a steel cage.
After a four-week trial, the Spokane County Superior Court panel deliberated for
two hours on February 2 before ruling against Rhoda Behrens-Hoisington, a
resident of Nine Mile Falls, Spokane County, in her mid-50s, who has cared for
22 developmentally disabled children and holds a master's degree in
developmental psychology.
Behrens-Hoisington cited spinal and brain damage from an attack by Richie "Bud"
Hoisington, an autistic boy she adopted when he was four, and blamed a Child
Protective Services order that she stop controlling his outbursts by confining
him in a six-foot-tall cage with a bucket for use as a toilet.
She told investigators that a state-paid caregiver had given her the cage as a
wedding present in 1998.
Her lawyer, Paul J. Burns, called the device a "safe room" and argued that the
agency had failed to provide alternatives for controlling the boy, 12 at the
time of the attack and diagnosed with autism, fetal alcohol syndrome and crack
cocaine exposure, attention-deficit disorder, Tourette's syndrome and a
condition that sometimes leads him to eat glass and nails.
Also in the United States, a lawyer for the family of an autistic man who
died last November after being shot by a Taser stun gun, said on February 7 that
police in Des Plaines, Illinois, had gone too far in attempting to subdue him.
Hansel Cunningham, 30, who had lived in a group home in Des Plaines, died
on November 20 during a struggle with three officers who used the Taser gun and
pepper spray before wrestling him to the ground and handcuffing him.
A spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office said Cunningham had suffocated
while being held face down on the ground. His death was ruled a homicide,
according to the spokeswoman, though it will be up to the state attorney's
office to decide whether charges would be filed against the officers.
The stun gun was not the cause of death, said the examiner's spokeswoman. "He
was face down with handcuffs on behind his back when he was being held down by
police," she said. "I don't know if he was being held down for all that time,
but there is a four-minute window where he was being restrained."
Still in the US, the parents of an autistic child have claimed in a
lawsuit that their autistic son was repeatedly beaten with a belt and broomstick
by a teacher’s aide during class at Capitol Middle School last November.
Carlos and Alicia Bailey claim they did not learn about their son being hit
until 10 days after the November 28 incident. They said one of their child’s
weaknesses was that he was unable to communicate verbally.
“Nobody found it necessary to call a parent?” Carlos Bailey said on February 7.
“Now it makes me wonder what went on before and that’s what bothers me the most.
“An autistic child can’t state his case,” Bailey said. “My son is defenceless,
he’s non-violent and he doesn’t know why this happened to him.”
The lawsuit names the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, Capitol Middle
School Principal Katie Blunschi and former teacher’s aide Anthony Ivey as
defendants.
Alicia Bailey said a female aide had taken Ivey’s place and was working out
fine.
Carlos Bailey said they had filed the lawsuit partly to get more information
about what had happened. He said that in the past, his son had been put on the
wrong school bus, been taught in a classroom the size of a broom closet and even
come home covered with scratches.
“It’s been a long-running battle,” Carlos Bailey said. “I’ve excused the other
problems, but this one is inexcusable because he does not deserve this.”
Alicia Bailey said her son did not want to go back to school for two days after
the incident.
The Bailey’s attorney, Aidan Reynolds, who is also the father of an autistic
child, said children with autism were “perfect victims” because they could not
communicate a problem to their parents.
“Not only are we going to make sure that Christopher is compensated for being
brutalised, but we also want to make parents of autistic children aware that
they are vulnerable in the system,” Reynolds said. “Parents need to remain
vigilant and make sure their children are being handled the way they should be.”
Across the Atlantic, a former British government medical officer
responsible for deciding whether medicines are safe has accused the government
of "utterly inexplicable complacency" over the MMR triple vaccine for children.
Dr Peter Fletcher, who was Chief Scientific Officer at the Department of Health,
said if it were proven that the jab caused autism, "the refusal by government to
*******uate the risks properly will make this one of the greatest scandals in
medical history."
He added that, after agreeing to be an expert witness on drug-safety trials for
parents' lawyers, he had received and studied thousands of documents relating to
the case which he believed the public had a right to see.
Dr Fletcher said he had seen a "steady accumulation of evidence" from scientists
worldwide that the measles, mumps and rubella jab was causing brain damage in
certain children.
But he added: "There are very powerful people in positions of great authority in
Britain and elsewhere who have staked their reputations and careers on the
safety of MMR and they are willing to do almost anything to protect themselves."
He first expressed concerns about MMR in 2001, saying safety trials before the
vaccine's introduction in Britain were inadequate. Now he says the theoretical
fears he raised appear to be becoming reality. He said the rising tide of autism
cases and growing scientific understanding of autism-related bowel disease have
convinced him that the MMR vaccine might be to blame.
"Clinical and scientific data is steadily accumulating that the live measles
virus in MMR can cause brain, gut and immune system damage in a sub-set of
vulnerable children," he said.
"There's no one conclusive piece of scientific evidence, no 'smoking gun',
because there very rarely is when adverse drug reactions are first suspected.
When vaccine damage in very young children is involved, it is harder to prove
the links. But it is the steady accumulation of evidence, from a number of
respected universities, teaching hospitals and laboratories around the world,
that matters here. There's far too much to ignore. Yet government health
authorities are, it seems, more than happy to do so. Why isn't the government
taking this massive public health problem more seriously?"
Dr Fletcher said he found "this official complacency utterly inexplicable" in
the light of an explosive worldwide increase in regressive autism and
inflammatory bowel disease in children, which was first linked to the live
measles virus in the MMR jab by a clinical researcher, Dr Andrew Wakefield, in
1998.
"When scientists first raised fears of a possible link between mad cow disease
and an apparently new, variant form of CJD they had detected in just 20 or 30
patients, everybody panicked and millions of cows were slaughtered," said Dr
Fletcher.
"Yet there has been a ten-fold increase in autism and related forms of brain
damage over the past 15 years, roughly coinciding with MMR's introduction, and
an extremely worrying increase in childhood inflammatory bowel diseases and
immune disorders such as diabetes, and no one in authority will even admit it's
happening, let alone try to investigate the causes."
Dr Fletcher said there was "no way" the ten-fold leap in autistic children could
be the result of better recognition and definitional changes, as claimed by
health authorities.
"It is highly likely that at least part of this increase is a vaccine-related
problem." he said. "But whatever it is, why isn't the government taking this
massive public health problem more seriously?"
He added: "It is entirely possible that the immune systems of a small minority
simply cannot cope with the challenge of the three live viruses in the MMR jab,
and the ever-increasing vaccine load in general."
Nevertheless, Britain’s Department of Health insisted: "MMR remains the best
protection against measles, mumps and rubella. It is recognised by the World
Health Organisation as having an outstanding safety record and there is a wealth
of evidence showing children who receive the MMR vaccine are no more at risk of
autism than those who don't."
Finally, and on an entirely different note, a movie starring Sigourney
Weaver as an autistic woman opened the 56th annual Berlin International Film
Festival.
The actress spent months preparing for her role in Snow Cake, a British-Canadian
co-production.
"It took me a long time to even understand how to prepare for this part because
every person with autism is so unique, and to find someone like Linda took a
long time," she told reporters. "I have to say it was one of the most
fascinating years I've ever spent researching for this part - and I learned so
much, I met so many wonderful people."
She added: “I think we have to begin to see it [autism] as a gift. We may not
understand what it’s there for, but if you’re in the presence of someone with
autism, you learn so much. You learn how to play, you learn how to see things,
you learn how to experience things and how jarring the world is.”
Snow Cake tells the story of a middle-aged English expatriate in Canada, played
by Alan Rickman, and the relationship that he develops with Weaver's character,
Linda Freeman.
Directed by Welshman Marc Evans from a script by Angela Pell - a British writer
with an autistic son - Snow Cake explores the intense frustrations and rewards
experienced by those who care for a unique and appealing autistic woman.
Englishman Alex Hughes, played with sad, still reserve by Rickman, reluctantly
agrees to take an insistent young woman to Winnipeg after she accosts him at a
roadside cafe. A truck crashes into the car, killing her. Alex *******s almost
without a mark. Overwhelmed by guilt, he goes to find her mother, the autistic
Linda Weaver.
The film is the first of 19 in the running for a Golden Bear prize at the 56th
Berlinale.
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dikkat eksikliği tedavisinde kullanılan ilaçlarda risk nedir?
11/2/2006Dikkat eksikligi tedavisinde kullandigimiz ilaçlardan yeni bir risk dogmakta midir?
Hürriyet gazetesinde çikan bazi ilaçlarin kalb açisindan tehlikeli olabilecek etkilerini yansitan haberin herkesi kaygilandirmis olabilecegini tahmin ediyorum. Bu kaygilari gerçekçi bir düzeyde tutmak ve çocuklarimizin sagligini korumayi sürdürmek için bilgileri tam vermek istiyorum.
Son bes yillik dönemde amfetamin (Adderal, ülkemizde bulunmamaktadir) ve metilfenidat içeren ilaç (Ritalin ve Concerta) kullanan yaklasik 4.5 Milyonluk çocuk grubundan 7 çocukta rastlanan ani ölüm vakalarinin FDA (Amerikan Ilaç Denetim Kurumu) tarafindan incelenmesi sonucu yayimlanan raporun orijinalini inceledim.
Su andaki uygulamalarimizin sürmesi açisindan bir degisiklik doguracak yeni bilgiler içermeyen, ama nadir de olsa önemli bir etkiye dikkat çekerek sorumsuzca ve rastgele ilaç kullanimina bir set çekmeyi hedefleyen bu rapora dayali temel önlemlerin basinda etki ve yan etkilerin yakindan takibi gelmektedir. Bu takibi yaptigimiz ve kurallara (doz, ilaç düzeni vs) uydugumuz ölçüde, çocuklarimiz için farkli ve yeni bir risk sözkonusu degildir.
En küçük bir riskin bile tip dünyasinda ve doktorlariniz tarafindan ne kadar ciddiye alindigini gösteren bu haberin, ilk etkisi geçtikten sonra. tip ve bilim dünyasina güveninizi arttirici ve kaygilari azaltici bir etkisi olacagini umuyorum.
Incelememe dayali daha kapsamli bilgileri ayrica tekrar iletecegim.
Tedavi uygulamalarimizi en son 3 ay içindeki doktor izleme randevunuzda doktorunuz (ben ya da baska bir çocuk psikiyatrisi uzmani) tarafindan belirlendigi sekilde iç rahatligi ile sürdürmenizi tavsiye ederim.
Ingilizce kaynak bilgi olarak "American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry"nin (ABD'deki çocuk ve ergen psikiyatrisi uzmanlarinin üyesi oldugu bilimsel ve mesleki kurulus) haber ile iliskili görüslerini bu mesajin sonuna kaydettim. Oradaki linklerden giderek raporun orijinalini sizler de okuyabilirsiniz.
Saygilarimla,
Dr Yanki Yazgan
www.aacap.org
AACAP and APA Pledge to Work with FDA on Determining Pr*******ence of ADHD Adverse Medication Events
AACAP and APA pledge to work with FDA on determining pr*******ence of ADHD adverse medication events.
For immediate release:
February 9, 2006
Contact:
Erin Baker, Communication Manager, ext. 119, ebaker@aacap.org
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WASHINGTON, DC-The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) pledged to work with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee on determining the pr*******ence of rare, unexpected, and serious adverse events that occasionally occur in clinical trials for medications used in the treatment of children and adolescents with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Child and adolescent psychiatrist Laurence Greenhill, M.D. testified today on behalf of the AACAP and APA and said, "Stimulant medications offer many benefits to a wide range of children, and have proven to be safe over a half-century of use." The AACAP and the APA are committed to working with the FDA to strengthen safeguards for the treatment of children and adolescents with ADHD. Click here for Dr. Greenhill's full testimony (in PDF format).
ADHD is one of the most common psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that approximately 3,500,000 youth in the United States are taking stimulants as part of their treatment plan. Although medication is not the only treatment option, it can be an important part of a treatment plan for a child with ADHD. Large-scale, long-term, randomized clinical trials show the efficacy of long-term medication treatment and the important role of psychosocial interventions. Research demonstrates that medication can be extremely effective and even lifesaving for many children and adolescents with ADHD, and is most beneficial when used as a component of a comprehensive treatment plan. Medication allows many children with ADHD to sit and concentrate in class and lessens the likelihood of rejection by peers.
ADHD medications constitute the largest group of medications approved for use by the FDA for the treatment of children with behavioral problems. Stimulant medications are some of the most extensively studied medications used for the treatment of behavior disorders in children and adolescents. There have been over 200 controlled studies over the past 50 years. These drugs produce robust responses in over two thirds of affected youth by lowering the intensity of their ADHD symptoms.
The AACAP and APA realize the importance of identifying rare, unexpected adverse events and determining their pr*******ence. Only then can the partnership of parent and practitioner make an informed decision regarding the benefit-risk ratio involved in starting medication treatment. Besides the physiological risks of taking medications, alternatively, not treating ADHD can lead to possible school failure, substance abuse and increased probability of entrance into the juvenile justice system, if not treated appropriately.
The AACAP and APA are committed to working with the FDA to determine the pr*******ence of rare, unexpected, and serious adverse events to better estimate risk for taking these medications. The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Trial Network (CAPTN), sponsored by NIMH and AACAP, is a large simple trials network and is one avenue to study these issues. This practice network will provide protocol-driven, postmarking surveillance for youth treated with ADHD medications to track such low frequency adverse events prospectively.
The AACAP and the APA have recommended to Congress and the FDA the formation of a pediatric and adolescent Central Nervous System Advisory Committee comprised of experts including child and adolescent psychiatrists and pediatric neurologists which would provide the agency expertise on pediatric psychopharmacology. The AACAP has been a long-standing advocate on behalf of a publicly accessible national registry of clinical trials. Physicians and parents need access to all clinical trial data to make fully informed decisions about their treatment options for all mental illnesses. Finally, the shortage of pediatric mental health clinicians and researchers are needed to appropriately diagnose and treat children and adolescents with mental illnesses and we urge support for legislation to address this shortage.
Click here to view the Food and Drug Administration's Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee Feb 9-10, 2006 briefing information
Current Press Releases
Representing over 7,400 child and adolescent psychiatrists nationwide, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is the leading authority on children's mental health. AACAP members actively research, diagnose, and treat psychiatric disorders affecting children, adolescents, and their families.
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) is the leading authority on children's mental health. AACAP members actively research, diagnose, and treat psychiatric disorders affecting children, adolescents, and their families.
Our Facts for Families, available free of charge on the AACAP website, provide concise and up-to-date information on a wide array of issues relating to children's mental health. Written in a simple, straightforward manner, these 88 one-page fact sheets are valuable to anyone raising or working with children. In addition, the AACAP routinely refers the media to expert spokespeople on child and adolescent issues, and sponsors The Campaign for America's Kids - an initiative designed to fund an Advocacy Institute for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, with the goal of mental health for all children.
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autism connect
7/2/2006Hello,
Contents:
1. Latest news
2. AutismJobs
Key addresses:
1. www.autismconnect.org
2. www.autismjobs.org
3. www.awares.org
Brain studies dominate the latest research stories on the AutismConnect news
pages.
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke
University in the United States have confirmed previous findings that children
with autism undergo abnormal brain enlargement before the age of two.
Researchers at the two institutions found that autistic children had 5 per cent
greater brain growth, particularly in the temporal lobe area, which is involved
in language.
Additionally, the researchers found that children with autism had larger head
circumferences than normal children, with the growth beginning at about 12
months.
”We do not know whether this brain enlargement plays a primary role in autism,
or is a downstream effect of another process,” said Dr Heather Cody Hazlett,
assistant professor of psychiatry at UNC. "Further studies of very early brain
development may help us better understand the timing and nature of this brain
overgrowth."
Meanwhile, researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles,
believe they have discovered individuals with autism do not have the normal
automatic, empathetic response to emotion.. According to a recent paper in
Nature Neuroscience, children with autism have virtually no activity in their
brain's mirror neuron system, the apparatus that facilitates imitation and
empathy. The researchers think this malfunction may be the primary cause of
autism.
"I think that, unlike previous theories, a mirror neuron theory of autism does a
pretty good job at accounting for all major symptoms of autism," lead author
Mirella Dapretto said.
According to co-author Marco Iacoboni, if poor mirror neuron system development
is the cause of autism, it may be possible to treat the disorder with therapies
that rely on imitation, as they engage and activate the system.
The researchers used functional MRI scans to image the brains of 20 children -
10 with autism and 10 without - as the children viewed photographs of young
people displaying different emotions. In the first five-minute scan, the
children just observed the emotions; in the second five-minute scan, they were
asked to imitate the expressions.
"Typically developing" children showed activity in a section of the brain with
mirror properties. The children with autism, on the other hand, showed no
significant activity in the region, even though they could successfully imitate
the expressions.
Dapretto said they also *******uated the level of impairment in the children with
autism, and found a strong inverse relationship between symptom severity and
activity in the mirror neuron system.
"The more impaired a child was, the less the activity in this key mirror area
and, conversely, the less impaired a child was, the greater the activity we
observed in this region," she said.
This, Dapretto said, lent support to the theory that failure in the mirror
neuron system lay at the core of autism.
In other news, the Ontario government in Canada has begun an appeal
against a court ruling that declared unconstitutional its limits on funding of
autism programmes for children. The government wants Ontario's Court of Appeal
to overturn an April ruling by Justice Frances Kiteley of Ontario Superior
Court. She had said that the province violated the rights of autistic
schoolchildren when they were cut off from treatment programmes in the education
system at the age of six.
Judge Kiteley said the province had discriminated against the children, based on
their age and disability. Cutting them out of the provincial programme when they
hit six reinforced the stereotype that children over that age were "virtually
unredeemable," she said.
She awarded damages to the families of about 30 children, and opened the door
for hundreds of parents of autistic children to get treatment within the
education system.
The therapy in question is referred to interchangeably as ABA or IBI. It is a
system of behaviour modification that uses positive reinforcement to teach
autistic children language skills and how to play appropriately. The treatment
can cost up to $60,000 a year for each child.
Susan Fentie, who has two autistic sons aged 12 and 10, said it was like being
"slapped in the face" when the government said it would appeal Judge Kiteley's
ruling. She said autistic children needed the intervention programmes to
"survive and grow and learn in life and be independent."
Finally, a 22-year-old former caretaker at the Devereaux New Jersey
Center for Autism was jailed for six years on December 16 after admitting she
poured boiling water on an 18-year-old autistic man in 2004
Charlene McClain, who pleaded guilty earlier this year to second-degree bias
intimidation and second-degree aggravated assault in connection with the
incident, was caring for the handicapped man when "she popped a cork," according
to prosecutor Jon Reilly.
"According to her, the man hadn't been compliant and had been combative with her
on prior occasions," Reilly said. So on November 11, 2004, "she went into the
kitchen and put some water in the microwave." Then McClain scalded the autistic
man with the liquid. The victim suffered second-degree burns to his abdomen and
genital area.
2. We are delighted to announce the following vacancies on autismjobs.
Positions in this issue are:
* Teacher in charge
To find out more about these jobs:
* Read this newsletter and click on the links within each advert.
To enquire about placing an advert:
* Send an e-mail with your contact details to support@autismjobs.org
* We would also appreciate it if you would forward this e-mail to any
employers who you know are recruiting.
Adam Feinstein, Editor, AutismConnect
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Based at Thomas Sumpter Comprehensive School, Chandos Road. Scunthorpe, DN17 1HA
Required for April 2006 (or as soon as possible)
North Lincolnshire Council is expanding its services for students with ASD. An
experienced, dynamic and enthusiastic teacher is required to run this newly
created resource base at Thomas Sumpter School, Scunthorpe.
There is a well-respected, established Autism Team which includes a primary
resource base in a local primary school. The successful candidate will work as
part of the team under the direction and guidance of the Assistant Head for the
Autism Team.
This is specialised provision for students with ASD, in mainstream schools, who
are to be educated within the Resource Base full-time or part-time as
appropriate. The aim of this provision is to secure inclusion in their own
secondary school. The post requires a teacher who displays a thorough
understanding of the needs of students with ASD and the secondary phase of
education as well as effective leadership, interpersonal and organisation
skills. There are many opportunities for continuing professional development.
For informal visits, further details and an application form, please contact
Jenny Burnett, Assistant Head, Inclusion Services, Autism Team, c/o St Luke’s
Primary School, Grange Lane North, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, DN16 1BN. Tel
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