User talk:Learnthesigns

CDC's Learn the Signs, Act Early

It's a good informational link, but why are you placing it in so many non-autism articles? You're making it look like spam. --Tim D 17:22, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Tim,

The "Learn the Signs. Act Early." campaign informs people about autism and many other developmental disabilities such as hearing loss, vision loss, cerebral palsy, and general childhood development. That is why these links are on other pages that are not concerning autism. Please let me know if you have more questions. Thanks!...learnthesigns

(I hope you don't mind, I moved this over to your talk page, in case others are looking for this answer as well)

The thing is, the page you have there still is pretty exclusive to autism, or at least PDD in general. Unless there is another info sheet that is more general (i.e., not called "Autism Spectrum Disorders Fact Sheet"), I would definitely remove the link from the entries for Child, Early childhood education, Learning disability, Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, Hearing impairment, Vision loss, and Cerebral palsy. Even though you might find some of these things in kids with autism, I would say that the link is not directly relevant to the individual main topics. It's just something that goes along with how Wikipedia works, you know? - Tim D 19:32, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Tim,

(I don't mind you moving this over to my page.) If you click on the link I have provided on the ADHD, hearing impairment, vision loss, etc. you will see that I have link them to the fact sheet that corresponds to the disorder. I did not put the autism fact sheet on all the other disorders, each disorder does have its own fact sheet. For instance, go to the ADHD page, click on the link I have provided, and the page that comes up is the ADHD fact sheet. I know the look of the link I have posted looks the same, but once you click on them you will find that they go to different fact sheets that correspond to the particular topic.

I hope this clears it up for you. Let me know if you have more questions. Thank you for your concern. - learnthesigns

Interesting...thanks for pointing this out. Sorry I missed it and caused a ruckus! I guess I was thrown off because in looking at the links, they all direct to pages in an "autism" directory. Carry on :) - Tim D 22:44, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

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Hello, and Welcome to the Wikipedia, Learnthesigns! Thanks for contributing the link over on the Autism article. Here are a few perfunctory tips to hasten your acculturation into the Wikipedia experience:

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