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I grew up in California and almost all of my family still lives there, and Jim and I have talked very seriously about possibly moving out west when Charlie is an adult. My dad has lived in Oakland for all but a few years of his life and has long said exasperated things about the […]
Less than 13 percent of American children walk to school, a new study reports. Parents cited safety as a main reason, in the form of the “speed and volume of traffic students would encounter en route to school; the possibility of crime; and the weather.” A researcher from the University of Michigan noted that the […]
Brooklyn is to Manhattan as California’s East Bay (Oakland, Berkeley) is to San Francisco: Today’s New York Times draws these comparisons:
….there is a young, earnest population that is beating a path between artsy, gentrifying neighborhoods in Brooklyn and their counterparts in the Bay Area, especially East Oakland and the area south of Market Street in […]
12 cases of measles have been reported in the San Diego area, all in children who were not vaccinated due to their being too young, or due to their parents choosing not to vaccinate them. A story last week in the San Diego Union-Tribune noted that more and more parents have been exercising their right […]
It’s the perennial problem: Is it better for autistic students to be educated at public or private schools, in the district or out? From Union City (CA) to Noblesville (IN) to Atlantic City (NJ), school districts are confronting issues like these: Should they hire their own in-house autism consultants? Or seek the services of […]
Five children aged 1 to 9 years old in San Diego County have been diagnosed with measles, and five more are suspected to have measles, today’s SignOn San Diego reports. All of the children were not vaccinated due to their age, or because their parents did not want them to be vaccinated, perhaps because of […]
A certain TV show about a certain lawyer and a certain hypothesis about what causes autism dominated autism discussions this week, for better or for worse—-when I talk about autism, I’m thinking of a very real boy, my son Charlie, and not so much about a fictional TV character. My real boy’s week was more […]
Autism occurs in individuals regardless of race, ethnicity, family income and educational levels. But how might race, ethnicity, and other cultural factors affect whether or not a child is identified as autistic?
A January 11th Newsday article by John Hildebrand looks at why affluent school districts Long Island, NY (including Half Hollow Hills, Manhasset and Roslyn) […]
Exposure to thimerosal, a preservative that contains ethylmercury, during childhood is not a primary cause of autism.
This is the conclusion of a study published in the January Archives of General Psychiatry (Vol. 65, no. 1) by Robert Schechter, MD, MSc, Immunization Branch and California Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities, Research and Epidemiology, and Judith […]
2007 ended with the disability community and parents rallying together to protest the Ransom Notes ad campaign; 2008 began with a call for participants in a new study that hopes to identify and treat autism in infants of autistic siblings. Some highlights:
A Christmas StoryA Christmas day post that discusses the Judge Rotenburg Center; […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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