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• NPR All Things Considered - Feb. 3, 2003
  'King Gimp' Revisited -- Baltimore Artist's Art, Spirit Triumph Over Disability
• NPR Weekend Edition - May 16, 1998
  Neuro-Feedback -- A clinic in Yonkers, NY, is treating children afflicted with attention deficit disorder with a technique called neuro-feedback. (13:00)


• NPR All Things Considered - December 30, 1997
  Jesse -- Commentator John McIlwraith tells about his difficulties with his grandson, who was at one point living with him. The boy has attention deficit disorder and his outbursts forced his grandparents to send him away. (4:30)


• NPR Morning Edition - August 28, 1997
  Welfare Reform: Part II -- In the second and final report on how different states are dealing with welfare reform, NPR's Vicky Que reports many parents are complaining that new eligibility requirements for poor, disabled children are unfair. She visits a diabetic nine-year-old and her mother who, for the past two years, have received $511 a month from the federal government. Under the new guidelines, they'll lose their cash benefits, but Medicare will still pay for her medical needs. Most of the hundred thousand children being dropped from the Supplemental Security Income program suffer from mental disabilities...like attention deficit disorder. (8:37)


• NPR Morning Edition - March 3, 1997
  Tovia Smith Reports on a Lawyer's Efforts to Resume his Practice -- He's lost his license for allegedly arriving late for court and mismanaging client's funds. He says he suffers from attention deficit disorder and wants another chance. (5:44)

• NPR All Things Considered - April 6, 2000
  Autism -- There appears to be a rise in the number of children being diagnosed with autism. This neurobiological disorder can interfere with a child's ability to communicate, learn, and fit in with others. A growing number of parents who care for these children believe that vaccines are to blame for the disorder, and went to Capitol Hill today to testify before a House committee. NPR's Michelle Trudeau and Vicky Que report on the vaccine connection to autism (there's no credible scientific evidence linking vaccines to autism), and the research into other possible causes, such as genetics. (12:30)


• NPR All Things Considered - December 8, 1999
  Autism -- Autism in children is a heartbreak to parents...and a puzzle to researchers. Recently, reports of a so called cure have surfaced, involving a drug called secretin. But in a careful but small study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, the promise of secretin is questioned. NPR's Vicky Que reports. (4:30)

• NPR All Things Considered - March 2, 1998
  Dyslexia -- Researchers have come up with a image of the brains of dyslexic adults trying to read. In otherwise-intelligent people, a "wiring glitch" integers with their ability to link letters that appear in the back of the brain, with the sound of the words in the brain's language centers at the front. NPR's Michelle Trudeau reports. (3:30)


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