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This week's KPR Presents features former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner Ted Kooser, from a reading sponsored by the University of Kansas Libraries. We'll also hear the collaborative efforts of Kansas Poet Laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg and singer-songwriter Kelley Hunt, in a reading performed at the Lawrence Public Library.


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A Better Life For Adults With Autism   Date: January 18, 2010
   There are lots of services—most of them school-based—for children with autism. But what happens to those kids once they’re too old to go to public school? There’s a nationwide campaign to make life better for adults with autism, and Kansas City is part of it. More from Health Reporter Bryan Thompson as we continue our series, “Kansas Health: A Prescription for Change”.

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   For more information about autism visit our website at kpr.ku.edu. Just click on the “Health Series” link. That’s kpr.ku.edu.

   Funding for the health series is provided by the Sunflower Foundation of Topeka and the Kansas Health Foundation of Wichita.
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Related Links:
Kansas City Town Hall Meeting
Advancing Futures for Adults with Autism
Overview - Adults With Autism
KCART-Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training
About KCART
Kansas Early Autism Services
NARPAA position paper
CDC - Autism Spectrum Disorders
CDC - Developmental Disabilities
Autism Speaks
Autism Society of America
MedlinePlus - Autism
NINDS - Autism fact sheet
NICHD - Autism Spectrum Disorders
NIMH - Autism Spectrum Disorders
CDC - Autism Data and Statistics
news release-British Autism Study
links to British Study
PubMed-Journal Articles on Autism
Advancing Futures for Adults with Autism - preliminary report

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