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Archive for the ‘CDDS’ Category

California regional center on probation

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

The California Department of Developmental Services (CDDS) has a simple charger: “The California Department of Developmental Services is the agency through which the State of California provides services and supports to individuals with developmental disabilities.” The CDDS works under the framework of the Lanterman Act. Key to the Lanterman Act is the concept that the [...]

Proposed California budget includes big cut for developmental services

Monday, January 24th, 2011

In Governor Brown Proposes Massive Cuts to Social Safety Net, Marty Omoto of the California Disability Community Action Network writes: $750 Million Reduction For Developmental Services The Governor’s proposal for a $750 million reduction in state general fund spending for developmental services includes the 21 non-profit regional centers. The bulk of that cut will most [...]

Autism Clusters Found: areas with high incidence of autistic children

Friday, January 1st, 2010

Researchers at the U.C. Davis MIND Institute has discovered regions in the state of California that have notably higher autism incidence. But the story is more complicated, and more sad, than one might think at first. Instead of indications of an “autism epidemic”, these clusters point to the fact that minority and poor children are [...]

Richard Deth – gambling man

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Maybe you don’t know, or have forgotten who Richard Deth (pronounced to rhyme with ‘teeth’) is. He is: Richard Deth, Ph.D., is a neuropharmacologist, a professor of pharmacology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and is on the scientific advisory board of the National Autism Association. Deth has published scientific studies on the role of [...]

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