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Stanford Adult Neurodevelopment Clinic: Bigger & Better
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Bryna Siegel Truth-Bombs Autism
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SFO Opens First Sensory Room
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A Famous Family’s Autism Dream Goes Up in Smoke in Paradise
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One of the Bay Area’s earliest autism moms offers her perspective on California’s autism explosion
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