Autism Oregon

Oregon Senate Bill 132 appears to be put forth by the Senate Interim Committee on Health Care, Human Services and Rural Health Policy for Children First for Oregon.

It notes:

Lineagan Labs has a $5000 genetic test that may help diagnose autism.

http://fox13now.com/2013/02/24/new-genetic-test-may-improve-autism-diagn...

See excellent article at:

http://www.opb.org/news/article/parents-fight-to-get-new-autism-treatmen...

Kaiser is first insurance company in Oregon to cover ABA treatment for children with autism. There is no age noted for coverage consideration in the link below. There is some reports that Kaiser might be requiring parents to be present during ABA therapy and involved 80% of the time, which makes it very difficult, if not impossible, for many working parents.

http://www.thelundreport.org/resource/kaiser_becomes_first_health_insure...

The "Achieving Better Life Experience Act," or ABLE Act is a bill would allow people with disabilities the ability to create special savings accounts where they could accrue as much as $100,000 without losing access to benefits like Social Security or Medicaid. The bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish tax-exempt ABLE accounts to assist an individual with a disability in building an account to pay for qualified disability expenses.

Funnix Beginning Reading and Funnix 2 is 220 complete lessons taking children from beginning non-readers to reading at a beginning third grade level.The Funnix reading program can be used with kids 4 or 5 years old through second graders who are having trouble. It can be used by teachers with small groups of kids, or by a parent or tutor. The program is designed so that someone who can read is with the child as the child goes through the program.

University of Texas scientists reviewed 25 Sensory Integration studies and found there was no benefit to the therapy.

http://www.utexas.edu/news/2012/11/19/popular-autism-treatment-lacks-sci...