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	<title>Academy of Special Dreams</title>
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	<description>Its time to get your dreams!</description>
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		<title>New Definition of Autism Will Exclude Many, Study Suggests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Proposed changes in the definition of autism would sharply reduce the skyrocketing rate at which the disorder is diagnosed and might make it harder for many people who would no longer meet the criteria to get health, educational and social services, a new analysis suggests. The results of the new analysis are preliminary, but they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.specialacademy.org/blog/new-definition-of-autism-will-exclude-many-study-suggests/</link>
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		<title>A Water Horse by Jhovana Cecena</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi!  here I am again. I want to share with you my latest exhibition featuring my art work.  If you want to buy any of my painting it will be wonderful.  It will help me to take more art classes and of course to keep buying canvas.  Enjoy my art work and don’t forget to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.specialacademy.org/art-for-sale/a-water-horse-by-jhovana-cecena/</link>
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		<title>Gallery by Arsen Asatryan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Armenian Earthquake Survivor Arsen Asatryan Finds Hope In Art Arsen Asatryan is an artist living and working in Spitak, Armenia. Though he painted at a young age, he didn’t commit himself seriously to the art until after the 1988 earthquake in Armenia, which left him paralyzed. In those years, painting became both a source of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.specialacademy.org/gallery/gallery-by-arsen-asatryan/</link>
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		<title>Welcome to the Academy Arsen Asatryan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello, I am Arsen Asatryan. Since the age of 22 i have been using a wheelchair due to the earthquake of 1988 in Spitak, Armenia. Afterwards i started painting and became an artist. Now I make art with oil-paints on canvas, I do carving on wood, and paintings on wood. I was born in 1966 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.specialacademy.org/artists/welcome-to-the-academy-arsen-asatryan/</link>
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		<title>A Dream Sweet Sixteen! by Jorge Luis Plata</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Patricia Alejandra Campos is a 15-year-old girl from Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico. Born with serious physical limitations, she now is a freshman in high school. She spends most of the time in her wheelchair doing her daily routine. Patricia Alejandra was born with a developmental disability called Myelomeningocele which is a defect in the development [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.specialacademy.org/featured/a-dream-sweet-sixteen-by-jorge-luis-plata/</link>
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		<title>Music by Samantha E</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Samantha E has been diagnosed with autism. Although she has a communication disorder which hinders her normal communication, amazingly she can sing and express herself perfectly through music. She arranged and recorded &#8220;I&#8217;m In Here&#8221; from her point of view.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.specialacademy.org/featured/music-by-samantha-e/</link>
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		<title>Visual Arts Exhibition Contest 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to our annual Visual Arts Exhibition Contest 2012 We are sponsoring an international web-based visual arts exhibition contest which we highlight existing and emerging creative talent of artists with special needs. The Academy recognizes talented artists whose original works go beyond the accepted bounds of this medium. Cash grants will be awarded for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.specialacademy.org/competition/visual-arts-exhibition-contest-2010/</link>
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		<title>Photography by Jonathan Kono</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello I’m Jonathan Kono I’m 20 years old.  My life is pretty much going okay so far I mean it could be better though. I hope you like my photography.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.specialacademy.org/gallery/visual-arts/photography-by-jonathan-kono/</link>
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		<title>Todd Tostado</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Advisory Board Member]]></description>
		<link>http://www.specialacademy.org/board-member/welcome-todd-tostado-as-an-academy-board-member/</link>
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		<title>Thank you for your support Yung N Gifted Entertainment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On behalf of the Academy of Special Dreams Foundation, please accept our heartfelt appreciation for your contribution to support scholarships for the artistic expressions of adults with special needs. Your contribution will be used for scholarships to deserving special needs adults. It is only through the support of you and other organizations and individuals that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.specialacademy.org/blog/thank-you-for-your-support-yung-n-gifted-entertainment/</link>
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