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Yesterday, January 7th, was the first day in the trial of Karen McCarron, who is accused of killing her 3-year-old daughter, Katherine, by suffocating her with a plastic bag on Mother’s Day weekend in May of 2006. WMBD/WYZZ TV reports that
McCarron’s husband Paul was the first to take the stand. He testified that McCarron […]
Advocacy. Witness. Hope.
Why I’m mentioning those words to start this post off will be apparent by the end of this post. In the meantime, advocacy, witness, and hope seem good terms to bring up in regard to an article entitled, Ignorance of autism is ruining lives in the October 29th Scotsman, and to a new […]
Earlier today I noted that this is my idea of a nightmare. Some consider life with autism, and autism itself, as a “nightmare” (”Autism: Nightmare Without End” is the title of a 1981 book by Dorothy Beavers). I do not consider autism, life with autism, being the mother of an autistic child, and most certainly […]
Caroline asked in a comment on the previous post, Never Say Never, how did Charlie learn to ride his bike without the training wheels? To use the hand brakes? What specific instructions did we use? And who taught him?Charlie first learned to push the pedals with his feet thanks to the efforts of an ABA […]
It has been just over a month since the October 27th conference, Autism and Advocacy: A Conference of Witness and Hope. Reading an article in today’s Inside Fordham Online and also Witness, hope, honor, and an elephant for Katie by conference speaker Kassiane Alexandra Sibley took me back to that very day. From the […]
The November 2nd Fordham Observer contains a front-page article about last week’s October 27th Autism and Advocacy conference. Conference organizer Jim Fisher (aka Charlie’s dad and my husband) is quoted as saying:
“‘…this is probably the first time issues of spirituality, faith communities and autism have been treated in public forum.’”
The article describes Kassiane Alexandra Sibley’s […]
Timothy Shriver is the CEO of the Special Olympics; he gave the Opening Address at the October 27th Autism and Advocacy Conference. Shriver began by describing the Special Olympics as not so much about “disability” as about “diffability,” a word (as far as I know) of his own coining. “Diffability,” he suggested, emphasizes how Special […]
The school nurse just left me a voice mail: Charlie, she reported, was so tired that his teacher had him go to her office, where he lay down with a bed and a pillow for 15 minutes.
I called back and mentioned that there was this autism conference Charlie’s dad organized this weekend and […]
That is, “qualified by experience.” (Rather than, as cited in Wikipedia, query by example.)
My husband Jim Fisher brought up this term after Kassiane Sibley noted that, of all the speakers at the October 27th Autism and Advocacy Conference, she alone did not have any letters (M.Div., Ph.D., M.A., etc.) after her name. Jim noted that […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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