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Top 2013 TACA Blogs
By Lisa Ackerman In 2013, the TACAnowblog has reached almost 125,000 readers. Not bad for a blog that has been in existence for two years. The archives of articles are pretty amazing and always...
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So Autism Is Even MORE Common Than Last Year. Who Cares?
By Dr Bob Sears I was really hoping that my latest blog would be entitled “Finally, Someone Cares About the Autism Epidemic!” But alas, it is not to be. The word “epidemic” is being reserved for the...
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I am a witness to TACA’s help for families, including our own
By Johnathon Schaech I have been a supporter of TACA for 7 years now and it’s been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. Since my wife Julie and I have had our first child, the amazing team...
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New study: Environmental Toxicity is a Primary Factor in Autism, Not Just...
By Dr Bob Sears A decade ago, many researchers believed that autism was primarily a genetic disorder, and a large amount of funding was spent searching for answers in that direction. Some even...
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Autism now affects 1 in 68 U.S. children
By Lisa Ackerman This is the third year in a row the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has announced new autism rates right before April (1), a month that has been designated as autism awareness...
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So Autism Has Risen Another 30% in two years to 1 in 68. Who Cares?
By Dr Bob Sears The reason we don’t have to care is because autism has ALWAYS been this common. There’s no real rise; we’ve just gotten better at diagnosing it. The government and many health experts...
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CDC Vaccine & Autism Research: Explosive New Statement from a Lead Researcher
By Dr. Bob Sears, Pediatrician and TACA Physician Advisory Member A senior researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “blew the whistle” on one of the studies that he and a team of...
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NEW STUDY DEMONSTRATES HOW PARENT-BABY INTERACTION MAY REDUCE AUTISM SYMPTOMS
By Dr. Bob Sears, Pediatrician and TACA Physician Advisory Member We all know that early behavioral interventions for autism help improve a child’s developmental skills. Yet, we’ve always focused...
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Is the CDC stepping up autism monitoring?
By Lisa Ackerman The CDC recently announced: they are stepping up autism monitoring (1.) At first, I got excited: Researchers at 10 sites across the country will comb data from 2014 to determine...
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AUTISM UN-AWARENESS MONTH COMES TO A CLOSE
About fifteen years ago I met my very first mother of a child with autism who asked for something different. I remember it very clearly: mom told me her daughter had a yeast problem and wanted...
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#Autism is now 1 in 45 – will anyone listen?
By Lisa Ackerman In December 2013 the University of Minnesota published a study regarding the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) population in Minneapolis. The results documented the ASD overall rate: 1...
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So autism is common. Who cares?
By: Dr. Bob Sears – Pediatrician and TACA Physician Advisory Member Before you yell at me for the title, pause and sense the sarcasm. I do care; I care deeply. As a full-time practicing pediatrician, I...
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What Is Causing the Pertussis “Epidemic”: Unvaccinated Kids or an Ineffective...
By guest blogger Dr. Bob Sears Pediatrician & TACA Physician Advisory Board member The recent increase in pertussis (whooping cough) cases has the media and public health officials in an uproar....
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Gut-Brain Connection? Leaky Gut? No longer “Crazy Talk” says AAP
By Dr. Bob Sears, Pediatrician and TACA Physician Advisory Member The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has just taken a giant leap toward recognizing the association between gastrointestinal...
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So Autism is (now even more) Common . . . Anybody Care Yet?
By: Dr. Bob Sears – Pediatrician and TACA Physician Advisory Member Welcome to part 2 in my series of blogs that will continue to be written until someone at the Centers for Disease Control and...
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Autism Costs for Families = MILLIONS
By Lisa Ackerman Another report just released outlines that autism costs families MILLIONS (1.) Sadly at TACA, not a day goes by without providing best practices to help families understand who pays...
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Top 2013 TACA Blogs
By Lisa Ackerman In 2013, the TACAnowblog has reached almost 125,000 readers. Not bad for a blog that has been in existence for two years. The archives of articles are pretty amazing and always...
View ArticleNew report shows 1 in 36 U.S. children has an autism diagnosis: Now will...
By Dr. Bob Sears The National Health Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has released a new report featuring the parent survey rates of developmental disabilities including autism (1.) This report...
View ArticleAutism rate: 1 in 59 Kids. It’s time to care.
By Dr. Bob Sears – TACA Physician Advisory Board The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just reported that autism now affects 1 in 59 children in America (1.) I am not surprised by this...
View ArticleNew Study Reaffirms: #Autism Epidemic Continues to Affect 1 in 40 Kids
By Dr. Bob Sears TACA Physician Advisory member Earlier this week the US Census Bureau released data on 50,000 American children from their 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health and found that...
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