Developmental Delay Resources, formerly Developmental Delay Registry. DDR is the one resource for information on integrating Conventional and Holistic Approaches to Learning and Behavioral Problems

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Teachers Guide for Students on the Autism Spectrum

5 Tips form DDR Exec. Director, Patricia S. Lemer, M. Ed.

The Autism Thyroid Connection - Could the autism and thyroid disease “epidemics” be related? Absolutely! Many health care providers miss the diagnosis of hypothyroidism in children with autism because they rely on unreliable thyroid blood tests. Learn which test pinpoints what is wrong and what to do.
Balanced Vision: Learn how the visual and vestibular systems interact.
Vitamin D & Autism: Is there a Link?
The Anti-Bully Law Oxymoron: Why it is impossible for anti-bully laws to eliminate bullying.
Kelly Dorfman: "Nutrition Detective" Learn from DDR co-founder and nutritionist, Kelly Dorfman on a regular basis. Kelly has a new book: What's Eating Your Child. Watch the trailer and order it now. Go to her book's website and see if she is speaking anywhere near you on her book tour this summer. If not, you can listen to her on Federal News Radio on May 26th.

News and Comments

CDC Releases New Stats: Autism up 23% in 2 years!! Now 1/88 kids, 1/54 boys!

The numbers are in for 2008. Yes, that was 4 years ago, but that's the best the CDC can do. It's even worse in NJ and Utah, where the number of boys is almost 20%. Advocacy groups are holding press conferences, writing press releases, demanding resignations. Read the full report .

At a press conference held in NYC on April 2nd advocates demanded that:

1.	Secretary Sebelius should declare a national health emergency and order the NIH and CDC to shift their research focus to prevention efforts, especially investigation of long overlooked environmental factors.
2.	The Government Accounting Office should initiate a study of past research funding that has ignored environmental causes. We need to understand whether this was the result of lobbying to avoid possible liability that might be uncovered with examination of environmental triggers.
3.	The U.S. House of Representatives Government Reform Committee should initiate promised hearings as soon as possible on the failure of federal health agencies in appropriately responding to this epidemic. It has been about ten years since this Committee examined the role of the federal authorities in the autism epidemic. We can think of no other instance of any comparable epidemic that has gone on so long without Congressional oversight.

Listen to the press conference.

Executive Director's Blog

Biological Medicine: The Latest from Dietrich Klinghardt

I just spent three days in New York glued to every word from my favorite genius, Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD . My head is spinning! I want to shout his knowledge from the top of every mountain and have it echo across the world. Instead, I will have to depend upon the magic of the Internet and cyberspace to get the word out. Here are some of the highlights bursting from my brain in no particular order.