Dr Bernard Rimland - a tribute

This is the tribute to Dr Bernard Rimland, a pioneer in autism treatment, who passed away on 21 November 2006 at age 78.

Rimland was a founder of the American Autism Society, Autism Research Institute and the Defeat Autism Now! DAN! project. He pioneered the biomedical approach to autism which treats autism as a biological problem rather than a psychological problem due to "refrigerator mothers” who were cold and uncaring.

The tribute was written by John Yeo, nutritionist at THE AUTISM CLINIC and published in TODAY newspaper on November 28. TODAY is Singapore's second most widely read newspaper, with a readership exceeding 500,000,

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