Summary
Baltimore's Kennedy Krieger Institute is an internationally known facility that focuses on research and education related to pediatric developmental disabilities. Faculty and researchers at Kennedy Krieger focus on various specializations, including autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, feeding disorders, learning disabilities and spinal cord injuries. Institute experts in various fields provide professional training across the United States and abroad. In addition to ongoing research, the institute operates more than 40 outpatient clinics around Baltimore, inpatient units for several disorders, and community programs to provide services to families. Kennedy Krieger Institute's Department of Special Edu...
Baltimore's Kennedy Krieger Institute is an internationally known facility that focuses on research and education related to pediatric developmental disabilities. Faculty and researchers at Kennedy Krieger focus on various specializations, including autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, feeding disorders, learning disabilities and spinal cord injuries. Institute experts in various fields provide professional training across the United States and abroad. In addition to ongoing research, the institute operates more than 40 outpatient clinics around Baltimore, inpatient units for several disorders, and community programs to provide services to families. Kennedy Krieger Institute's Department of Special Education offers day-school programs to students aged 3-21 with a wide range of disabilities at their Fairmount, Greenspring and Montgomery County campuses. The institute also maintains The Resource Network that shares resources and research on development disabilities including autism and related disorders across Maryland. The institute's largest fundraising effort is the Festival of Trees, which displays more than 300 decorated trees, wreaths and gingerbread houses designed by local artists, businesses and community groups. Awards are given out and display items are sold, with the proceeds going to Kennedy Krieger Institute research, treatment and education programs.
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Drag-race tickets to aid spinal cord injury center
A national drag-racing league announced yesterday that it has donated $60,000 worth of tickets to the Kennedy Krieger Institute's spinal cord injury center to help the Baltimore facility raise money. The American Drag Racing League gave 2,000 tickets...Tags: Injuries
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Researchers discover new genes involved in autism
The Associated PressHarvard researchers have discovered half a dozen new genes involved in autism that suggest the disorder strikes in a brain that can't properly form new connections. The findings also may help explain why intense education programs do help some autistic...Tags: Biology, Therapies, Natural Science, Health Treatments, Medical Specialization
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6 new genes linked to autism; some lack 'on-off' switch
Associated PressHarvard researchers have discovered half a dozen new genes involved in autism that suggest that the disorder strikes in a brain that can't properly form new connections. The findings also may help explain why intense education programs do help some...Tags: Biology, Therapies, Natural Science, Health Treatments, Medical Specialization
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Autism study still on hold
Associated PressPressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine. The treatment removes heavy metals from the body and is based...Tags: Therapies, Prescription Drugs, Health Treatments, Illnesses, Social Sciences
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Gene study yields clues to autism
Associated PressWASHINGTON — Harvard University researchers have discovered half a dozen new genes involved in autism that suggest the disorder strikes in a brain that can't properly form new connections. The findings also may help explain why intense education...Tags: Biology, Therapies, Natural Science, Mental Illness, Health Treatments
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Gaining life skills, one putt at a time
Sun reporterEight-year-old Paris Clinton gripped the putter uncertainly and frowned at the small purple ball. Nearby, water splashed down a pile of rocks and white triangular flags flapped in a hot wind, but Paris was focused on one thing: getting the ball in the...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Health Treatments, Injuries
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NAACP to gather data on sludge
Sun reporterThe Baltimore NAACP will meet next week to consider whether any health risks were posed eight years ago when researchers from the Kennedy Krieger Institute and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health spread sludge on several city residential...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Interior Policy, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, NAACP, Elijah E Cummings
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'Sludge' story missteps
A chain of missteps and misunderstandings was set in motion two months ago when an Associated Press article seemed to suggest that nine East Baltimore families were duped into letting Johns Hopkins University researchers spread "sewage sludge" on their...Tags: NAACP, Scientific Institutions, Johns Hopkins University
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Sludge and other theories: time to think
A black man approached me on Guilford Avenue in Baltimore the other day and struck up a friendly, walk-and-talk conversation about Barack Obama. The conversation lasted only five minutes, and, remarkably, the stranger did most of the talking, ending...Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Epidemics and Plagues, NAACP, Barack Obama, Guilford (Baltimore, Maryland)
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Hopkins' hands clean
Researchers used compost on Baltimore yards to demonstrate a technique for fighting the city's tragic lead-poisoning problem. Why is it OK to accuse them of using "sludge"? It's not. The compost that was used in this 2000 study is called Orgro. It's...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Epidemics and Plagues, Energy Saving, Johns Hopkins University
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