An Electronic Silent Spring: Facing the Dangers and Creating Safe Limits. New book by Katie Singer

spring2 Extracted from Amazon text: Over millions of years, living creatures have evolved in relation to the Earth's electromagnetic energy. Now, we're surrounded by human-made frequencies that challenge our health and survival.

An Electric Silent Spring reports the effects of electrification and wireless devices on people, plants, bee colonies, and frogs around the globe. It presents solutions for people who want to reduce their exposure to electromagnetic radiation.

This pioneering book is for anyone concerned about the health of the environment and the people and other creatures that inhabit it.

Katie Singer has performed a great public service by assembling compelling scientific studies and personal experiences about the effects of exposure to radiation from man-made electricity and wireless devices on birds, wildlife, and human health...

Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/An-Electronic-Silent-Spring-Creating/dp/1938685105/ref=pd_rhf_ee_p_t_2_HT39

Dignity and Inclusion: Making it work for children with behaviour that challenges

This publication will help all service providers to ensure that disabled children and young people with additional support needs can access services and lead a life as part of their local community, focusing on children who have behaviour that challenges as a result of either a severe learning disability and/or autism.

Drawing on and including examples of good practice from across the country, Making it work for children with behaviour that challenges illustrates the ways in which all agencies can work together to develop local policies and procedures to ensure that the needs of this group of children are met in a coordinated and child-centred way.

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Environmental factors have 'strong link to autism,' claim scientists

Children who have a brother or sister with autism are 10 times more likely to develop the disorder themselves, according to research published today.

However, scientists also concluded that environmental factors are just as important as genetics in explaining the causes of autism, casting doubt on long-held assumptions that the disorder is mainly inherited.

Previous studies have suggested that genetic factors may be 80 to 90 per cent responsible for causing autism, but the new study puts the figure at 50 per cent, with the other 50 per cent explained by non-genetic factors.

Professor Avi Reichenberg, of the Mount Sinai Seaver Center for Autism Research in New York, who led the study, said:

We were surprised by our findings as we did not expect the importance of environmental factors in autism to be so strong... It's now clear we need much more research to focus on identifying what these environmental factors are.

The study, of data from two million children born in Sweden between 1982 and 2006, is the largest ever conducted into how autism runs in families. It was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Taken from the Independent Newspaper (UK) on 9th May 2014.

Online: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/environmental-factors-have-strong-link-to-autism-claim-scientists-9321420.html

Harsh Discipline More Common For Students with Disabilities - USA

By Michelle Diament: Federal officials say schools are restraining and secluding kids with disabilities far more often than other children and are disproportionately referring them to law enforcement.

Statistics released Friday from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights reveal widespread disparities in discipline between students in special education and their typically-developing peers.

Kids with disabilities represent three-quarters of children physically restrained and 58 percent of those placed in seclusion or some other form of involuntary confinement at school, the Education Department said. Such children are also more than twice as likely to receive an out-of-school suspension.

What's more, federal officials found that children served under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act account for a quarter of all students who are arrested and referred to law enforcement by schools.

Meanwhile, kids with disabilities represent just 12 percent of the nation's students.

More of the article here: http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2014/03/21/harsh-discipline-disabilities/19218/