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There’s been plenty of debate about whether or not there is an epidemic of autism; about whether or not the increase in the prevalence rate of autism (now 1 in 150) is due to our being better able to diagnose and count cases of autism, or whether there is some actual something that can be […]
If you thought from reading the title that this blog has become, for one post, a travelogue, I am afraid that you thought wrong: This is a post about a two-fold “miracle cure” for autism, via horseback riding and shamans. While both of these are described (in today’s Times Online and on a website) as […]
Autism is everywhere—–by which I do not mean that, this being April and therefore Autism Awareness Month, we are hearing about autism—what it is and what to do about it—-everytime one turns around, gets on the internet, watches a popular TV show. By “autism is everywhere,” I mean that autism is a global phenomenon. […]
“Comparing apples and automobiles”: That is how one scientist describes what it is like to compare current prevalence rates for autism (1 in 150) to past, older rates. In an interview in the March 20th Bloomberg News, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker notes that comparing past and present rates of autism is also like “comparing […]
The website for autism father and anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker’s forthcoming book Unstrange Minds: Remapping the World of Autism is up, at http://www.unstrange.com. You can read an excerpt (the book’s introduction) as well as a brief summary on Unstrange.com, which also contains resources of a kind that are unique about autism.
In his book, Grinker […]
“People say autistic children don’t form relationships.
They do, but their expression of that relationship is difficult.”
So says Kirsten Miller, who started to work with autistic children “by chance” ten years ago and whose new book, Children on the Bridge: A Story of Autism in South Africa” is described as combining “the mystery of the children, […]
At the 2nd World Autism Congress that was held in Cape Town, South Africa, from October 30 - November 2, Education Minister Naledi Pandor “confessed she did not know as much as she should about autism,” as Jos Horwitz of Wynberg wrote in a letter in the November 6th Cape Argus. Wynberg further writes:
She recognised […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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