Do you remember these news stories from the past year?

* Jason McElwain, a high school senior with autism, scored 20 points for his school in a varsity basketball game, prompting a much-Googled news report, an ESPN award, a visit with the president, movie offers, and even his own bobblehead doll.

* Abraham Cherrix, a Virginia 16-year-old with Hodgkin's disease, started a series of legal battles when he chose not to continue radiation and chemotherapy as his doctors had recommended. The doctors called in social services, who took joint custody of the teen and asked a court to order treatment. One judge did, but the family got that order reversed on appeal.

* Kendra and Maliyah Herrin, conjoined twin girls, were successfully separated by surgeons in Utah. The four-year-olds had been joined at the torso and shared a kidney and a pair of legs.

* Josh Blue, a comedian with cerebral palsy, was the big winner on the TV reality show Last Comic Standing.

* T-ball coach Mark Downs was found guilty of offering a young player money to bean an autistic teammate. Though the coach claimed it was all a misunderstanding, the jury bought the prosecution's claim that he wanted to incapacitate a kid he thought was a detriment to the team, and the judge sentenced him to one to six years in jail.

Pick which one of these stories is your favorite in the poll above, then look back on many more items of interest in 2006 in Special Needs News, our annual round-up of newsworthy items that have appeared in this Parenting Special Needs blog. Revisit Dr. Phil's Tourette's episode, House's autism episode, the accident at the Roloff family farm, the ADHD patch, the diabetes spat, Morgan Spurlock's supersized foot-in-mouth moment, and more.

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