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The Florida parents of 7-year-old Matthew Faiella, who has autism, are taking him to Costa Rica at the end of this month for adult stem cell treatments. According to WESH.com, Daniel and Ruth Faiella say that they have seen “improved mental skills” in Matthew after trying many different therapies, “including a $20,000 hyperbolic chamber that […]
Four-year-old Scarlet Chen drowned in the bathtub of her Scarborough, Ontario, home on July 12, 2004. Her death was initially ruled an “‘unfortunate accident,’” but, on February 28, 2005, Scarlet’s mother, Xuan Peng, was arrested and charged with murder. The case went to trial on November 5, 2007; Peng has been free on $110,000 bail […]
In my son Charlie’s classroom, three out of the five students (including him) are Asian and, from noting attendance at community activities for special needs children, there are a lot of Asian families with special needs children in our school district. The district has gained recognition for excellent schools for all students and the Asian […]
Once upon a time Rome was just a “small spot on the Tiber” and the Italian peninsula was populated by the Oscans, the Sabellans, the Umbrians, the Etruscans, and many many more peoples whom the Romans gradually conquered and brought under the rule of SPQR, Senatus Populusque Romanus, the Senate and the Roman People. Besides […]
Jim had to attend a work-related function Saturday night, so I took Charlie swimming at the YMCA, where there’s a special Saturday program that reserves one of the pools for autistic children only. I asked Charlie if he’d like to see a movie and he said “yes”—-and when I brought up the subject back at […]
自閉症, zi bi zheng (formed of the three words “self,” shut/close,” “obstruction”) is the Mandarin for “autism,” with the suggestion that it is a condition in which the self is withdrawn, shut and closed up in itself. A January 9th Wall Street Journal article profiles the efforts of Ma Chen to create and fund […]
On Christmas, just before noon, my family goes to the cemetery. With flowers in the trunk, we go up the winding paths (the cemetery is located in the Oakland hills), and up almost to the top to where there’s a slope that looks west towards the Pacific. “From here,” my father said to me in […]
“BBDO” meaning “Brooklyn–Bowery—D train—whOle fOOds,” rather than a certain New York-based advertising agency that is behind the New York University Child Study Center’s “Ransom Notes” campaign. I’ve obviously been a little caught up in responding to the Center’s “public awareness” campaign (a word whose military overtones I dislike, as if the whole point of […]
In the latest segment of America’s Next Top Model, Heather, who has Asperger Syndrome, and the other girls go to China. Her expressions in these photos remind me of some Charlie regularly makes: He too screws up his eyes and smiles and looks out of the corners of his eyes, when he seems to be thinking; some […]
Growing up in a suburb outside of the Bay Area in California in the 1970s, I knew I wasn’t normal.
I’m Chinese American—-all of my grandparents were born in Southern China—and I was the only Asian student in my classes. Nobody else had black hair or a last name like “Chew.” My family celebrated the usual […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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