Developmental Disorders
WASHINGTON - Disabilities advocates are applauding Congress for passing legislation that eliminates the term "mental retardation" from federal laws.
PHILADELPHIA - Pennsylvania officials are closing a residence building and banning new admissions at a facility for the disabled following the death of an autistic man left in a hot van.
LANGHORNE, Pa. - A home for people with disabilities has suspended a second employee following the death of a 20-year-old autistic man left in a hot van after a trip to a suburban Philadelphia theme park.
LONDON - The doctor whose research linking autism and the vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella influenced millions of parents to refuse the shot for their children was banned Monday from practicing medicine in his native Britain.
LONDON - Britain's top medical group ruled Monday that a doctor who claimed autism was linked to a childhood vaccine can no longer practice in the U.K.
