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At last, some sensible words about vaccines, courtesy of actress Amanda Peet on yesterday’s Good Morning America:
“It seems that the media is often giving celebrities and actors more authority on this issue than they are giving the experts. I know it’s a paradox, but that’s part of why I wanted to become a spokesperson, to […]
Friends are expecting babies, friends have recently had babies, friends are thinking about having babies.
A discussion about the book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and autism in the summer school course I’m teaching ends with a question from one of the high-school students: “But what can you do to make sure […]
A friend talks about having a baby.
I think of all the things pregnant women are told to do, and told not to do, and all the advice and information out there about pregnancy, babies, and parenting in general.
Not to mention having to sift through too much stuff about topics like vaccines and autism and hearing […]
Here’s a familiar one for parents of autistic kids:
Doctors and Patients, Now At Odds, the July 29th New York Times’s trumpets. Jim and I do have our arsenal of just really terrible, not happening, not helpful, stories with pediatricians, child psychiatrists, neurologists, an immunologist, the psychologist who was on the team that diagnosed Charlie, and […]
Much happened over the past two weeks but I want most of all to think about Evan Kamida, who passed away on July 24, just a few days shy of his eighth birthday. Please keep his mother Vicki Forman and Evan’s family in your thoughts and prayers—-and to honor his memory, here’s a small and […]
Yesterday I posted about tracking eye movements as a way to test very children for autism — and then, later in the day, read about another possible marker for detecting autism in young children. University of Florida researchers Osnat and Philip Teitelbaum think that different patterns of movement in babies and toddlers may be indicators […]
Today’s Wall Street Journal discusses some new tools for diagnosing autism in young children by studying their eye movements and eye tracking. Researchers at Yale University’s Toddler Developmental Disabilities Clinic are using gaze-tracking technology to study patterns in “gaze behavior” in children aged 3 months to 3 years for autism. At the Massachusetts Institute […]
Charlie and I started the week on the West Coast, visiting my family (and Charlie missing his dad so much he tried to walk back to New Jersey)—came back on a red eye Tuesday morning and he was back in school on Wednesday. Meanwhile:
The Regression Question
Do some children seem to be autistic from the […]
Do some children seem to be autistic from the time they are babies, while others develop normally and then lose skills? Is autism “innate” in some children and “regressive” in others—-are some children born with autism (suggesting that autism is genetic) while others become autistic (due, it is thought, to some “trigger” such as a […]
Some will remember last week for June 4th and “Green Our Vaccines” rally.
I remember it as Charlie’s last full week of elementary school.
Low Birth Weight and Preterm Birth: Autism Risk Factors?A new study in Pediatrics links low birth weight (less than 5.5 pounds) and preterm birth to an increased risk for autism in infants by […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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