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Experts Gather for Portland Autism Summit

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Leading autism experts will gather for a one-day summit.  For the first time, this summit brings together leading experts in the hospital treatment of children with autism and serious behavioral disturbances.  The prevalence of autism had increased to 1-in-88 children in the United States.  And is now considered a public health crisis.  Dr. Matthew Siegel founded the collaborative to foster research and clinical advances for children with autism, and he joins us to talk about the summit.

Autism Summit
Friday, September 28th
Maine Medical Research Institute
Scarborough, ME
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