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In the previous post, One on One: Advocacy and Presence, I tried to provide a write-up of the content of the speakers in the first panel of the conference, Advocacy and Presence: Communities of Faith Engaging Autism; my first post about the conference, Advocacy. Witness. Hope was the actual speech I gave to close […]
Though not all of the 310 or so people who registered were able to come, there was a good-sized audience—a crowd, indeed, with the atrium outside the amphitheatre completely filled at lunchtime—at all times at yesterday’s Autism and Advocacy Conference. Since Labor Day, Jim has been doing nothing but publicizing and promoting the conference, contacting […]
These are the Closing Reflections I gave at the end of Autism and Advocacy: A Conference of Witness and Hope. I will be writing more about the conference over the next few days. It was phenomenal—thank you to all.
I’m so glad to be here with you.
With you who are here today—family, friends, teachers, therapists, friends […]
Kassiane arrived just before 9.30pm at Newark Airport, where Jim and I had met another of the conference panelists, Professor Bruce Mills of Kalamazoo College; we had passed the time in talking about the various ways in which our boys script, Edgar Allen Poe and e.e. cummings, and service learning projects in which college […]
In the past two months, a number of new theories for “what causes autism” have been proposed: iPods and cell phones, older fathers, TV, infertility. These are in addition to more long-standing theories, such as the MMR vaccine and mercury poisoning via the preservative thimerasol. It does seem as if finding out the cause of […]
“I needepp!”
Says Charlie as he pulls at a box, trying to get the cover off.
“I needhepp!. Hepp, hepp, I need hepp, needope.”
Did he say “hope”? No, he must need help.
I give him the help he asks for. And Charlie always give me hope.
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Two more days until Autism and Advocacy: A Conference of Witness and Hope will take place on October 27th, Friday, at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus in New York City.
Some 300 are registered.
Thank you to all who have sent in photos that will be shown to “portray the varieties of human experience as we all […]
A few posts back, in regard to my husband’s and my decision not to have another child—to have “only” Charlie—Jenni asked me “how much of a part of your decision was based on the fact you worked full-time?”.
A good part, I would have to answer. It is true that another factor that played a part […]
It is exactly two weeks before Autism and Advocacy: A Conference of Witness and Hope will take place on October 27th, Friday, at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center campus in New York City. Registrations have been coming in steadily—-I have gotten into the habit of handing out flyers wherever I go and Jim has been spreading […]
AUTISM AND ADVOCACY: A CONFERENCE OF WITNESS AND HOPE
Friday, October 27, 8:30a.m- 5 p.m.
Fordham University McNally Amphitheatre
140 West 62nd Street, New York City
Conference is Free: Please register by contacting James Fisher by email at jafisher@fordham.edu, or at 212-636-7698
Click here to download a PDF file about the conference.
Program
All events held in or just outside McNally Amphitheatre
8:30 […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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