September 6, 2010
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‘Horse Boy’, family find respite from autism in Mongolia

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(CNN) — When 3-year-old Rowan Isaacson darted away from his father and dived into a herd of grazing horses, it easily could have been the end of the small autistic boy. He was babbling under the hooves of a boss mare. “I thought he was going to get trampled,” recalled Rupert Isaacson, Rowan’s father. But [...]


The Horse Boy

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I first ran into this story on KCRW’s – The Treatment and was fascinated by Rupert Isaacson’s particular perspective on what seems to have become a generational challenge – autism. For one reason or another the numbers of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder are way up. What used to be something that affected kids [...]



 

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