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		<title>Commencement Speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eric Duquette gave the commencement address as the salutatorian of Smithfield High School in Rhode Island, graduating with the second highest average in a class of almost 200. Diagnosed with autism as a young child, he did not speak until age five but now speaks both English and Spanish fluently.  He plans to attend Rhode Island College as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aspergianpride.com/blog/2010/06/21/commencement-speech/</link>
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		<title>All State Speech Honors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tyler Hurford, a 15-year-old high school freshman in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received a prestigious All State Speech Honors award from the Iowa High School Speech Association for a humorous presentation on dating tips.  Tyler, diagnosed with autism at age two, did not speak until he was five years old.  He developed his speaking ability by repeating lines from television shows. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aspergianpride.com/blog/2010/04/07/all-state-speech-honors/</link>
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		<title>Perfect Picks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sports fan Alex Hermann, a Chicago teenager, accomplished the difficult feat of picking every game through the first two rounds of the NCAA men&#8217;s basketball tournament correctly on the CBSsports.com site.  Although his predictions did not remain perfect throughout the entire tournament, Alex&#8217;s accomplishment was nevertheless quite impressive.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aspergianpride.com/blog/2010/03/26/perfect-picks/</link>
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		<title>Young Author Wins Writing Contest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After being selected as a winner of his school district&#8217;s book-writing contest, 12-year-old Dyllan Rafail had the opportunity to have his book published.  In &#8220;Super Senses,&#8221;  he compares his autistic sensory experiences to being a superhero who has abilities others do not share and who struggles with the resulting difficulties and misunderstandings. According to an article in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aspergianpride.com/blog/2010/01/17/young-author-wins-writing-contest/</link>
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		<title>Key Administration Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ari Ne&#8217;eman, who heads the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, has been nominated by President Obama to the National Council on Disability (NCD).  The White House issued a press release yesterday announcing his selection and describing the NCD positions as key administration posts. The Autistic Self Advocacy Network is a nonprofit group that seeks to advance the principles of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aspergianpride.com/blog/2009/12/17/key-administration-post/</link>
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		<title>Online Course Survey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doctoral candidate C.S. Wyatt, who is himself autistic, is conducting research for his dissertation at the University of Minnesota on the use of online courses by autistic students. This research may help to persuade university administrators that providing accommodations to improve educational access for the autistic population makes both ethical and financial sense. If you have a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aspergianpride.com/blog/2009/11/05/online-course-survey/</link>
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		<title>Student Honored for Saving Teacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten-year-old Kyle Forbes of Houston, Texas, was alone in his classroom with his teacher Sheri Lowe when she choked on an apple. As reported by a local TV station, Kyle, who is autistic and has a passion for learning, had been taught the Heimlich maneuver in Cub Scouts, and he immediately performed it as he had practiced. He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aspergianpride.com/blog/2009/10/27/student-honored-for-saving-teacher/</link>
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		<title>AASPIRE Gateway Project and Survey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Elesia Ashkenazy, a community partner of the Academic Autistic Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education (AASPIRE) and chair of the Portland, Oregon chapter of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), is familiar to many in the autistic community because of her leadership of the ASAN-Portland protest at an Autism Speaks walk, after which she was interviewed on the TV [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aspergianpride.com/blog/2009/10/19/aaspire-gateway-project-and-survey/</link>
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		<title>Worldwide Resistance to Autism Speaks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since Autism Speaks released its appalling video &#8220;I Am Autism&#8221; earlier this week, to widespread global condemnation from parents and autistic self-advocates alike, British blogger Socrates of The New Republic has taken a leading role in organizing resistance to this latest atrocious effort to demonize autistic people. He has taken the top Google spot from Autism Speaks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aspergianpride.com/blog/2009/09/25/worldwide-resistance-to-autism-speaks/</link>
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		<title>Young Game Designer Seeks Understanding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The video games created by Jack Booth, an 11-year-old autistic boy living in Swindon, UK, are so difficult that even the most experienced gamers have been unable to complete some of them.  Jack is now taking on a larger challenge; he seeks to change public perceptions of autism. Interviewed for a local newspaper article, Jack said, &#8220;I would like to show [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.aspergianpride.com/blog/2009/09/13/young-game-designer-seeks-understanding/</link>
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