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Here it was Charlie’s birthday yesterday (thank you for so many good wishes!) so I’ve been in something of a super-reflective mood: How was this tall boy once curled up inside me? How have we managed to help him through the years and some very tough moments? He’s 11 years old now and memories […]
Is there an autism epidemic and why does it matter if there is, or isn’t?
Do you show you’re “aware” with a car magnet, a wristband, a ribbon?
More from last week:
New Findings on Genetic Link Between Autism and Mitochondrial Disease
Researchers at Medical Neurogenetics have found that there may be a genetic link between autism and mitochondrial […]
Studying how infants process differences in rapidly occurring sounds can predict if a child will have future language problems, according to research being done by Rutgers University (Newark) neuroscience professor April Benasich, who directs the Infancy Studies Laboratory. Researchers are able to determine the full range of brain activity in infants aged 3-6 months […]
How do infants learn where one word ends and another begins? A new study suggests that they learn a “key pattern,” as noted in Cognitive Daily:
language learners look to patterns in the consonants for information about where words start and end; they look to vowels to understand the role of words in a sentences.
Charlie was […]
Carie Tenzel’s son, Chaz Tenzel-Walser, is 15 years old. When he was diagnosed with autism, the doctor told her that he would never graduate from high school and would “most likely need special care for the rest of his life,” the April 5th TimesDaily.com (Alabama) reports. Now Chaz is doing this:
He’s attended mainstream classes since […]
Confronting ‘that autism thing’ is the name of an NPR story about how a family, the Browns, learned that their son Gibson has autism. As a baby, Gibson came home with on oxygen pump and a feeding pump; he didn’t point or say “mommy” and “daddy” or wave when he was a year old; the […]
Autism may be “triggered” by a mother drinking alcohol during pregnancy, today’s Times notes. This topic has come up before: Back in November, it was reported that moderate drinking during pregnancy could be “the hidden cause” of autism, attention deficity hyperactive disorder (ADHD), and other neurodevelopmental disorders in children.
It’s not the cause for Charlie having […]
Yesterday, a reader left a comment on the post It’s Not the Vaccines in which she noted (1) she is pregnant and (2) her husband has a “12 year old daughter from a previous marriage who has severe autism and mental retardation. When she was about 18 months old, she had the MMR and that […]
Infoture, a Boulder-based company, has created the LENA (for “language environment analysis”) which is (reports the February 24th New York Times magazine) means to be a kind of “verbal thermometer” to help parents better gauge how baby’s language skills are developing.
A voice recorder tucked into a child’s clothing records all the sounds in the environment. […]
Neon-bright marquees and music (from B.B. King’s theater–Buckwheat Zydeco is playing) and tour buses driving up halfway onto 42nd street and Russian Spanish Korean Twi being spoken and the smell of the gyros and steam from the subway grates: That was what Charlie walked through, holding Jim’s arm and grinning, with my parents and me […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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