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ORIGINS Thoughtful House, under the guidance of executive director Andrew Wakefield , MD, was founded by Troy and Charlie Ball as a tribute to their son, Marshall. The Balls donated land in Austin for the center. Marshall, who has published two books of poetry and won many awards despite severe physical challenges, named the original Thoughtful House, built as a special place for reflection in his backyard. In September, 2001 , Andrew Wakefield , along with other colleagues including Jeff Bradstreet and friends, initiated planning for the treatment center, devising a model combining medical care, Behavior al analysis and education, as well as clinical and laboratory research. Working with the founding Board of Directors, Thoughtful House became a reality in 2005, with the commencement of medical, educational, and recreational services for children with developmental disorders. Thoughtful House has achieved success treating children with a Gluten-free Diet . ANDREW WAKEFIELD Wakefield is an academic Gastroenterologist . He has published 132 original scientific articles, book chapters and invited scientific commentaries, and was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College Of Pathologists in 2001. Wakefield has become a controversial figure in medicine because of his claim that the MMR Vaccine was a cause of autism - made at a time when he was employed by attorneys attempting to prove that link. In 1998 , Wakefield published a description of the pathology of what he says is a novel syndrome, which he later dubbed Autistic Enterocolitis , in '' The Lancet ''. In the ensuing fallout, six years later, ten of the study's co-authors retracted the interpretation, published in the ''Lancet'', of a possible link between MMR and autism. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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