: New LDDI biomonitoring study release and Senate Hearing

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Subject: FW: New LDDI biomonitoring study release and Senate Hearing

Below is an announcement of a new biomonitoring report on the presence and

levels of neurotoxic chemicals in 12 people nationwide associated with the

learning and developmental disabilities communities. Larry Silver,

Boese and myself were participants in this project.

Thank you, Maureen Swanson

ANNOUNCEMENT

Leading members of the Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative

(LDDI), along with other colleagues in the environmental health field, will

release a new biomonitoring report: Mind, Disrupted: How Toxic Chemicals

May Affect How We Think and Who We Are this Thursday, February 4th. The

official press release will occur just prior to a Senate Hearing on chemical

policy reform that will take place Thursday morning as well. Note that the

Senate Hearing will be audio-streamed live (more information below).

The Mind, Disrupted report and related fact sheets will be available to the

public on the website (http://www.minddisrupted.org) as of 9:00 AM Eastern

on Thursday. We hope many of you will access the new report on the website

and listen to the Senate Hearing, which starts at 10:00 AM Eastern.

Here are the important details for all of Thursday's events:

9:15 AM EST: Press only teleconference:

LDDI colleagues who participated in the biomonitoring study will present on

a press only teleconference to release the Mind, Disrupted report. Speakers

will include: Maureen Swanson, the Healthy Children Project Coordinator of

the Learning Disabilities Association of America; Jeff Sell, Esq., father

of twin sons with autism and Vice President for Policy of the Autism

Society of America; and Larry Silver, MD, past president of the Learning

Disabilities Association of America, clinical psychiatrist and author of the

Understanding and Coping with Your Child's Learning Disabilities.

10:00 AM EST: Senate Hearing:

Senator R. Lautenberg (D-NJ), Chairman of the Subcommittee on

Superfund, Toxics, and Environmental Health, will convene a hearing to

examine the current science on public exposures to toxic chemicals. We

invite you to listen to the live audio streaming of the hearing on the

Mind, Disrupted website at http://www.minddisrupted.org, courtesy of

Pacifica Radio Network. More information on the hearing and a list of panel

presenters can be found at:

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REMINDER: The Mind, Disrupted website (http://www.minddisrupted.org) will

not be live and available until Thursday at 9:00 a.m. Eastern.