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It might be better to ask what wasn’t discussed about autism in the past two weeks—-below are posts about genetics, the special diet, Hannah Poling, vaccines, music, education, Ashley X, diagnosis, special education, mitochondrial disease. And a racehorse. And a very very personal matter.
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A Difficult Youth Is A Good Thing for a Fisher——um, a fish, according to a study about the Bluehead Wrasse reported about in Science Daily back in February:
[Scientists] discovered that fish larvae that survive a long, rough, offshore journey eventually arrive at a near shore reef in good condition, and that they thrive afterwards.In contrast, […]
Neurobiologists from Duke University have found that, in birds who are able to learn songs—parrots, songbirds and hummingbirds—the brain structures involved in singing are connected to those that control movement. Further the brain areas that control movement “share many functional similarities with the brain areas for singing. This suggests that the brain pathways used for […]
The $1000 yearling named Autism Awareness who won the El Camino Derby at 62-1 odds is out with a knee injury, according to the Thoroughbred Times. They do say that horses—even wit a name like Autism Awareness—-can go bad overnight like strawberries….
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Yes, and a horse who beat the odds Saturday at the El Camino Real Derby at Bay Meadows in northern California, as reported in Bloodhorse. With jockey Luis Contreras, Autism Awareness won by 1 1/2 lenghths while covering the 1 1/16 miles in 1:43.17. The horse won $90,000 for his El Camino victory and paid […]
A few weeks ago I posted about Trapper Leeth, whose parents have gotten approval to get him a therapy dog and now need to raise the funds. In Minnesota, 9-year-old Reece Trahan’s therapy dog, Pudge, just started to go to school with him, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports: He’s a school “aide” of a different, and […]
Michael Fitzgerald, a professor of psychiatry at Trinity College in Dublin, recently argued that the genes for creativity and for autism and autism spectrum disorders are “‘essentially the same,’” the February 21st Telegraph notes. Historical figures ranging from scientists Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein, from composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to writer George Orwell, from US […]
Are animals autistic savants? ask researchers Giorgio Vallortigara et al. in the February 19th PLoS Biology. Yes, indeed says Temple Grandin in her 2005 book, Animals in Translation: Animals and autistic savants—who have extraordinary skills in certain areas, and especially in mathematics, music and drawing—both have “extreme cognitive skills” and also “think in detail” […]
Dogs warm to children with autism reports the February 17th Chicago Tribune in an article about therapy dogs for autistic children—this is not the case for my own son, who on seeing a dog freezes, or backs up, or asks to be carry (something about the barks, especially when it is high-pitched, and their […]
13-year-old Samantha Ruderham has recorded her own pop album of 10 sounds, I Have a Voice, the January 3rd Edinburgh News reports. Samantha is autistic; her parents were told that she might never learn to speak. Her mother notes that “her daughter had actually learned to sing before she could speak in complete sentences.” Some […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
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