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Hosted chat with Chloe Smith MP 1pm 18th August in Chill4us Chatroom

We are delighted to let you know that Chloe Smith MP will be joining us in our chatroom on the forum.
at 1pm 18th August

You are invited to  join us for  this online LIVE chat with our online chat guest host Chloe Smith MP.

In this LIVE chat, Chloe is  “happy to discuss any issue – local or national – and her experiences to date in Westminster”.

We hope you will be able to join us, for this second chat we have held with Chloe.

You can enter by pressing the chatroom button at the top of our forum, only registered members can take part.
Please feel free to join our forum before the day.

JOIN the CHAT on Thursday at 1pm 18th August 2011.

The online event is exclusively at www.chill4us.com

If child has autism, siblings may too

If child has autism, siblings may too

Published: Aug. 15, 2011 at 10:42 PM
 
 
NEW YORK, Aug. 15 (UPI) — Having one child with autism increases the risk of siblings having autism at a rate higher than previously thought, U.S. researchers suggest.

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, MIND Institute, found 19 percent of younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder developed autism — a rate significantly higher than that of the general population — and if there were two children with autism spectrum disorder in the family, the risk of the third sibling developing autism spectrum disorder increased to more than 32 percent.

Children with potentially deadly nut allergies are being bullied

Hidden torment of nut allergy children who are bullied for being ‘different’

 

By Fiona Macrae

Last updated at 8:14 AM on 16th August 2011 

Children with potentially deadly nut allergies are being bullied for being different, say researchers.

And their parents are stigmatised as ‘neurotic and attention-seeking’ by other parents, they found.

Relatives of some victims of the condition are even suspected of deliberately giving a child nuts to check they really are allergic.