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“In psychology, I’m starting to get the weary feeling that everything gives you mental illness,” quips Williams Saletan in the May 7th Slate on Human Nature. Saletan references the recent study which found that parents who have psychiatric disorders are doubly at risk to have an autistic child (while also citing another study according to […]
Shane Graham had Down’s syndrome, autism and sickle cell anemia and was one of 11 disabled children from New York who had been adopted by 62-year-old Judith Leekin. Today’s Associated Press reports that Leekin used four aliases to make money on the subsidies totally over $1.2 million for the children’s care. She adopted them between […]
Why are DAN! doctors so expensive? is a question on the website for Talking About Curing Autism (TACA): Have you ever not been able to continue or even start a therapy for your child due to the costs? Today’s Columbus Dispatch reports on the costs of autism and how families and advocacy groups in several […]
“It is a possession for all time, not a competition piece to be heard for the moment, that has been composed.”
So writes Thucydides, the ancient Greek historian, about his account of The Peloponnesian War. Considering that he was writing in the fifth century B.C., and about events taking place from 431-411 B.C., Thucydides was right […]
Sad and horrible to think about.
32-year-old Allison Cox is on trial today on charges of manslaughter and failing to provide the necessities of life for Tiffany Pinckney, her adopted sister, The Star reports. On April 2, 2005, Pinckney was found in a basement apartment in Missisauga, on a rug soiled with urine and feces. She […]
They have all written books about autism that have been published this year, as have many others, two being Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism by Roy Richard Grinker and Kiara Brinkman’s novel, Up High in the Trees, which is not explicitly about autism, but which is a finely crafted portrait of one “quirky” […]
With the study on early thimerasol exposure and neuropsychological outcomes in the New England Journal of Medicine published on Thursday, the case of the school aide against 6-year-old Nathan Darnell going to court on Tuesday, Jenny McCarthy making autism news every day, and a lot, lot more, it was a busy week.
Court Hearing for 6 […]
Marcie Pickelsimer, who blogs at My Two Boys and also Discussing Autism, writes on the Chicago Moms Blog about autism and the adopted child. In her post about her son, “Little Pickel,” who was adopted from Russia in the summer of 2005, Marcie writes that he has Institutional Autism, which is distinguished from “organic autism.” […]
Ralph Savarese speaks on Autism One Radio tomorrow
The author of Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption will speak tomorrow, September 11, 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm ET.
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While I was sitting here in New Jersey (not near Northvale, but just up the hill from the New Jersey State Auto Auction on Sip Avenue off of Route 1 & 9, just past the steel-grid shadows of the Pulaski Skyway, the long horizontal line on this Flash Earth map), my fine friend McEwen was […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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