How to tap talented students with disabilities

(Reuters) - With unemployment stubbornly stuck around 9 percent, Molly Kirk knows she's lucky she to have a job offer in the human resources training program at Google after graduation. Even with her excellent credentials, the Georgetown senior is quick to thank Lime Connect, an organization that partners with the world's leading corporations to offer summer internships to high-potential students with disabilities.

"Lime Connect helped me come to terms with my disability, gain confidence and make powerful connections so that I can achieve outside the classroom," says Kirk, who is severely hearing-impaired and wears hearing aides.

Believed to be the first organization of its kind, Lime Connect (think fresh approach to disability), was launched in 2006 to attract, prepare and connect students with often hidden disabilities such as ADHD, Asperger's Syndrome and dyslexia from top schools like Princeton, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania and Duke. The program helps students get internships and, ultimately, careers at top-tier corporations.

Read Toddi Gutner's Reuters article HERE.

Brain scans accurate at spotting autism: U.S. study

(Reuters) - U.S. researchers are closing in on an accurate test for autism, a finding that could lead to earlier diagnosis and treatment.
The test, which uses conventional magnetic resonance imaging or MRI machines, detected 94 percent of individuals with a high-functioning form of autism, they reported on Thursday.

Read more of Julie Steenhuysen's article HERE.

Cells' 'power plants' damaged in some autistic kids

(Reuters Health) - Most of the kids tested in a small autism study turned out to have problems with energy production in their cells, scientists said Tuesday.

Read Frederik Joelving article regarding researcher Cecilia Giulivi of the University of California, Davis work in Reuters HERE

Girls with ADHD show other mental health risks

Read By Amy Norton of Reuters article in North Shore News HERE.