Is there a link to rising rates of autism, ADHD and other learning and developmental disabilities?

Feb 3 2010

Jeff Sell, father of twin sons with autism ,Vice President for Policy at the Autism Society; Maureen H. Swanson, Healthy Children Project Coordinator, Learning Disabilities Association of America; Larry Silver MD, author of the Understanding and Coping with Your Child's Learning Disabilities; and others will join Andy Igrejas, National Campaign Director of the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Campaign on a national telephone news briefing for the release of Mind, Disrupted: How Toxic Chemicals May Affect How We Think and Who We Are, produced by the Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative (LDDI).

A Senate Hearing on Feb 4, 10:00 am, Environment and Public Works (http://epw.senate.gov/ ) Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health examines current science on public exposures to toxic chemicals. Listen to the hearing Live on www.minddisrupted.org or www.saferchemicals.org, courtesy of Pacifica Radio Network  

WHAT: Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative Report Release

Mind, Disrupted: How toxic chemicals affect how we think and who we are

WHO: Jeff Sell, Autism Society, study participant

Andy Igrejas, Safer Chemicals Health Families

Maureen H. Swanson, Healthy Children Project. Learning Disabilities Association of America, study participant

Larry Silver MD, author, Misunderstood Child, Fourth Edition:    Understanding and Coping with Your Child's Learning Disabilities, study participant

R. Thomas Zoeller, Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Morrill Science Center, former National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences researcher on endocrine disruptors and health effects

WHEN: Thursday, February 4, 2009, 9:15 a.m. Eastern