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National Autism Awareness Month: Helping Children With Autism Learn

Helping Children With Autism Learn: Treatment Approaches for Parents and Professionals, by Bryna Siegel, is a practical guide to treating the learning differences associated with Autism. Siegel, the Director of the Autism Clinic at Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, gives practical guidance for fashioning a unique program for each child’s problem, effectively empowering families. In the excerpt below Siegel explains how to help verbal children use their words.

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An Honor For Memory

Today we will look more closely at two of these titles, Memory and Brain by Larry R. Squire and Memory From A to Z by Yadin Dudai. Below is an excerpt from the beginnin of Memory and Brain. Check back later today to learn more about Memory From A to Z.

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Rachel Carson: Saint or Sinner

Former Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson wondered publicly why a “childless spinster” should be worried about how pesticides might affect future generations. He concluded that she was “probably a Communist.”

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Mind race: an excerpt

This Monday I’m introducing a series of books we will revisit often on the OUPblog. The first, ‘Mind Race: A Firsthand Account of One Teenager’s Experience with Bipolar Disorder’, was written by Patrick E. Jamieson and Moira A. Rynn. It’s an indispensable book for young people with bipolar disorder.

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A few questions for Stephen Hinshaw

By Stephen P. Hinshaw

Stephen Hinshaw, author of The Mark of Shame: Stigma of Mental Illness and an Agenda for Change, is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at the University of California at Berkeley. His new book questions why the mentally ill in America are still discriminated against and what can be done about this longstanding problem.

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