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A story no one wants to hear about but that reminds us that you can’t be too safe and sure when you’ve got someone babysitting a special needs child with limited communication skills: C and G News reports that a 21-year-old Macomb township man, Jonathan Maltese, was allegedly caught on camera molesting two young autistic […]
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 […]
The Simcoe County District School Board suspected that an 11-year-old girl, Victoria Nolet, had been sexually abused based on the prediction of a psychic. Today’s Times Transcript reports that Victoria’s educational assistant had visited a psychic “who said a youngster whose name started with the letter “V” was being sexually abused by a man between […]
Main event of the week: Charlie’s last day in elementary school.
And, yes, Tuesday.
In the comments, a link to a Press-Enterprise article about an 11-year-old, Nicholas Dooley, who has autism and possibly another psychiatric disorder.
So Goeth the Autism Epidemic
The June 6th Times (UK) has an article on The autism epidemic commeth, which heralds the publication […]
The parents of a sixth grade girl with autism are filing a lawsuit against the Fort Wayne Community Schools, on the grounds that the district failed to protect their daughter. As reported in today’s Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, Indiana),
The girl, a special education student with autism, was allegedly sexually molested by another student on two […]
Professor Stanley Fish of Florida International University, in Miami and dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, opens a post about “norms and deviations” on his New York Times blog by citing a letter published in Time magazine:
A letter published in the May 26 issue […]
Now that it is the first of June, my son is down to his last two weeks of being at the school he’s been at for the past two years. He starts Extended School Year in the middle of June; it’ll be at the middle school and with the teacher who’ll be Charlie’s teacher in […]
Last December, Cynthia Standifer killed her adopted son, Rasheed Michael Standifer, who had intellectual disabilities. According to the May 22nd Enquirer (Cincinnati), Standifer injected large doses of morphine into her son and then also injected herself with the drug and was found on December 26. Last Wednesday, May 21st, Standifer was given the minimum sentence […]
22-year-old Nicky Reilly is being held over a nail bomb attack last week in a restaurant in Exeter, UK. Reilly is believed to have Asperger’s Syndrome, today’s Times notes:
Reilly, 22, is a Muslim convert who has spent time detained in a mental health hospital. He has been described as a shambling introvert with the mental […]
According to Dr. Fernando Miranda of the Bright Mind Institute, maybe not. A report in the May 19th Good Morning America/ABC News describes some children who were initially diagnosed with autism, and later found to have Landau-Kleffner Syndrome. For some of the children, anti-seizure medication has produced dramatic results and Dr. Miranda is said […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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