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Talk to the Chos is the title of an op-ed by Dave Cullen in today’s New York Times. Cullen, who is writing a book about the Columbine High killers, notes a sad—a terrible irony: Fourteen days before Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people at Virginia Tech, “[a] judge ruled …… that depositions by the parents of […]
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. […]
“What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?”
writes Maxine Hong Kingston at the beginning of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, which was published 30 years ago last fall. To restate the question in words more obviously connected to this this blog:
What is autism and what is the movies?
Or: How […]
“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 6th Institutional Meeting for Autism Research, IMFAR, will be held in Seattle from May 3 - 5. Michelle Dawson at Autism Crisis has posted the abstracts for two of the three studies she is involved with, How many hours is forty hours? Range of Treatment Intensity in Lovaas (1987) (M. Dawson, L. Mottron) and […]
I am Asian American or, more specifically, third-generation Chinese American by way of southern China(Toysan county), raised in northern California (specifically, Oakland and Berkeley). Chinese nationals, residents of Hong Kong, immigrants to the US from Fujian and Shanghai and other regions of China—-have had a very different experience to me (and often speak a different […]
What causes autism?
A lot of ink (real and digital) gets spilled over this question. “We are dedicated to funding global biomedical research into the causes, prevention, treatments, and cure for autism,” notes Autism Speaks in its statement of its Goals. “There is no known single cause for autism, but it is generally accepted that it […]
A young woman—unable to speak any comprehensible words according to one source, only able to say “father, mother and stomach ache” according to another source—was found trying to take food from a lunch box last week in Cambodia. “‘She was naked and walking in a bending-forward position like a monkey, exactly like a monkey. She […]
On reviewing the topics of my ten most recent posts, I have detected a common thread:
Definitions: Prevalence and Epidemic
An Epidemic of Discovery
A theory of attraction…….and epidemic?
See it?
Even though whether autism is an epidemic appears to be the autism topic du jour, this post will not be on this subject.
This post is about the experience […]
CAN co-founded Portia Iversen’s recently published book Strange Son is subtitled “Two Mothers, Two Sons, and the Quest to Unlock the Hidden World of Autism.” The two sons are Iversen’s own autistic son, now adolescent son, Dov, and Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, who, while “severely” autistic (as Iversen continually stresses), is able to communicate […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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