THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING

New autism agency welcomed

By Brenda J. Buote
Globe Staff / July 28, 2005

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''He will probably never speak." Heather Flaherty left Children's Hospital in Boston devastated, the pediatrician's words ringing in her ears. Still, she refused to accept the bleak prognosis, the possibility that she would never know the simple pleasure of a conversation with her son, Aidan, who was then just 22 months old. (Full article: 808 words)

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