Young adults with autism lag in school, work
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Young adults with autism are less likely to go to college or hold down a job than their peers with other types of disabilities, a new U.S. study finds. Researchers found that more than one-third of young adults with an autism spectrum disorder had not gotten a job or gone into higher education since high school. And that number was much higher compared with young adults with learning disabilities or other impairments. It’s estimated that about one in 88 U.S. children has an autism spectrum disorder, or ASD. …
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Colleges, health care face cuts in La. budget
A state-run psychiatric hospital in central Louisiana shuttered. A program that aids families with children who have hearing, speech and motor control problems eliminated. College campuses pushed to financial emergency. Medical training programs threatened with loss of accreditation.
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Facebook, Edutopia Collaborate on Social Media Guide
As most high school students are gearing up for summer break, many teachers and administrators are planning and prepping for the next school year. Part of their planning may include strategies to integrate technology in the classroom, through digital textbooks, gaming, and social media.
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Nurse Practitioners Seek to Raise Profile
Nurse practitioners, who add years of college education to their training as nurses, will begin a PR campaign this week aimed at getting public acceptance and understanding of their role as health providers, The Washington Post reports.
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Romney Defends Marriage and Faith in Liberty University Speech
Mitt Romney doubled down on his position against same sex marriage, telling graduates at Liberty University Saturday that marriage between “one man and one woman” is an “enduring institution” that should be defended.Coming just days after President Obama endorsed the right of gays and lesbians to marry, the comment earned Romney a standing ovation from the crowd of more than 30,000 people—the largest crowd Romney has ever addressed as a political candidate–but it was his only mention of the hot button social issue. …
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Colleges go to the dogs for stress busters
Just down the hall from the reference desk at Emory University’s law library in a room housing antique legal texts is Stanley the golden retriever puppy, barking his head off.
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Georgia woman, 24, battles flesh-eating disease
Whether she was hiking in the woods, growing organic vegetables or working on her master’s degree in psychology, Aimee Copeland embraced her passions with determination and a constant smile that made friends wonder if she ever had bad days.
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Starting a New Office Job? Advice for College Graduates
Yahoo! News asked readers to offer advice — inspirational, heartfelt, funny or otherwise — to the graduating class of 2012. Here’s one reader’s tip:
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Mo. lawmakers send $24B budget to governor
Missouri lawmakers sent the governor a $24 billion budget plan Thursday that shores up funding for veterans homes, gives raises to a reduced state workforce and spares public schools and universities from cuts — a result legislators praised as an accomplishment in what they bemoaned as another tight budget year.
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Students charged with taping under teacher’s dress
Police have charged two Kentucky high school students with video voyeurism after they say one of them held a cellphone under a teacher’s dress, made a video and posted it online.
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