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Today's Globe: autism costs, sudden infant death bill

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The nation's largest autism advocacy group, Autism Speaks, is planning a legislative push in 20 states, including Massachusetts, to require private insurance companies to pay a portion of the intensive, expensive educational treatments that many medical professionals say are a child's best chance to overcome, or just learn to cope with, profound and lifelong developmental and learning disabilities.

A bill on Governor Deval Patrick's desk would create a special advisory council to study ways to improve the way the state responds to cases of sudden infant death syndrome. The bill is sponsored by Representative Jeffrey Perry, whose granddaughter died suddenly 48 days after she was born.

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