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NorthStar Center
NorthStar is an aftercare program for young adults who have completed primary substance abuse treatment and are ready to move forward in their sobriety. At NorthStar, recovery is tailored for young adults in sobriety to include programming in recovery, responsibility, and recreation. This helps young adults learn to manage not only sobriety and irresponsible behavior but also the boredom and restlessness that young adults face is sobriety.
NorthStar's mission is to facilitate recovery from substance abuse/dependence and self-defeating behaviors so that young adults can achieve their educational and life goals.
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Sage Walk
Sage Walk’s wilderness program offers a powerful and significant approach to help your teen overcome emotional and behavioral problems. Our mission is to resolve family conflict in order to reunite families that have been torn apart by the behavioral problems of a troubled child. Sage Walk was chosen as the wilderness program for ABC's Brat Camp in part to their effective drug and alcohol education component to help teens experimenting with substances.
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New Trend to Diagnose Autism and ADHD in Infants
Can doctors tell if babies are autistic, mentally retarded or have Attention Deficit Disorder?
Several ongoing studies indicate that diagnosing infants with developmental disability disorders might become more common in the future. For example:
- A recent government report from the Center for Disease Control and the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders includes a list of very early warning signs, such as a two-month-old baby’s failure to focus on new sounds and sights. The Center recommends that pediatricians screen babies for developmental disorders. This report emphasizes the importance of early diagnosis, noting that 17% of American children have such disorders but less than half receive a diagnosis before age five.
- Dr. Stanley Greenspan, who co-authored the government report, is researching whether very early interventions, such as behavior training, can help infants and preschool children with Attention Deficit Disorder or autism.
- Dr. Fred Volkmar at Yale University is currently determining whether infants who focus on objects rather than people are more likely to suffer from autism. “We are on the verge of being able to do a much better job” of detecting developmental disorders in infants, he said.
- Finally, researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago are performing a five-year study of the relationship between infant crying and autism.