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Location One Nardone Place 2nd Floor Jersey City, NJ 07306        Contact Us Phone: 201-536-0005 Fax: 201-536-1950 carlgargiulo@earthlink.net Education Education and Recent News Items on Pediatric Therapy and Autism Autistic Children Clinically Proven Mercury Poisoned Recent peer-reviewed scientific/medical studies by Nataf et al. (2006) and by Geier and Geier (2006) leave little doubt that many autistic children are indeed mercury poisoned. Fragile X, Down Syndromes Linked To Faulty Brain Communication The two most prevalent forms of genetic mental retardation, Fragile X and Down syndromes, may share a common cause, according to researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine $7.5 Million NIH Grant To Yale For Autism Center Of Excellence The Yale Child Study Center has been awarded the Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) status by the National Institutes of Health. This highly competitive and prestigious award comes with $7.5 million of direct funding over five years to the Autism Program led by Ami Klin. UCLA Imaging Study Provides Clues About Inability To Imitate And Empathize In Autistic Children New imaging research at UCLA shows that impairments in autistic children's ability to imitate and empathize can be linked to dysfunction in the brain's mirror-neuron system. Children With Autism Can't Discern Between A Frown And A Smile When we have a conversation with someone, we not only hear what they say, we see what they say. Eyes can smolder or twinkle. Gazes can be direct or shifty. "Reading" these facial expressions gives context and meaning to the words we hear.    Search Site: Copyright © 2007 Pediatric Therapy Resources. All rights reserved.