1.8 million Chinese children - Autism

[Margaret Diann]

Japan Donates $81,000 to Shanghai For Autism

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/20...nt_3851507.htm

Beijing -- Japan donated $80,840 to help treat Shanghai's autistic
children, those who have difficulties communicating, interacting and often
cannot respond to affection - a serious problem in a highly verbal society
such as China.

Shanghai has at least 10,000 known autistic children, mostly living in
their own worlds, out of touch with reality and given to repetitive
behaviors.

The Shanghai Charity Foundation received the donation from Consulate
General of Japan yesterday.

It is the first local institution for treating children with autism.
Funds will purchase more sports facilities and fix utilities for the school,
according to Jiang Limin, director of the Shanghai Sincerity Children
Convalescent's Kindergarten.


Among the 1.8 million children known to be suffering from autism in
China, over 10,000 of them are in Shanghai, based on the Sincerity
Kindergarten. However, the Sincerity facility was only founded in
2003.Currently 20 professional therapists are helping about 35 children
there under age of seven.

"There is always a line-up on our enrollment list," said He Xiaoyun,
the facility supervisor. "Expanded facilities will hopefully let us have
more professionals and look after more autistic children in our institution.
"The kindergarten so far has treated 160 children with autism, and 30
percent of them have been able to enter elementary schools.
Ye Lan, a teacher, said that autism is a lifelong but non-progressive
disability, and a cure has not been found.
Jiang, the director of the school, also a mother of an 11-year-old
autistic boy, says early treatment makes a difference. Enditem
(Source: Shanghai Daily News)

I wonder what wars their parents took part in that might have given them exposure to EGBE ...? Well with the industrialization in recent years and car manufacturing - as reported this summer in Time Magazine ... that's probably enough

I think glyconutrients would help the children & a certain nutrition