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Late Sunday afternoon Charlie was hanging around the front door when I looked at him and saw that three of his left hand fingers were bloody, and then noticed a similar Hawaiian Punch-like stain on his left cheek and a little white wadded-up-paper-looking-thing in his right thumb and finger….
“You lost a tooth!” I said.
“Tooth!” said […]
My college students are performing Cabaret and tonight Charlie and I went to see it. For the past month, Charlie has been doing something he has never done before, putting his hands over his ears when the radio is on in the car and when he hears human voices that are too loud or […]
I really think of this piece as a love story between a husband and wife, between a mother and a son and between a father and a son.”
Says playwright Stacey Dinner-Levin of her play, Autistic License, which will be performed April 25 and 26 at the Illusion Theater in Minneapolis. More from Dinner-Levin (who has […]
There’s been plenty of press for Autism: The Musical, which has been shown at a number of film festivals and will be shown on HBO tomorrow night, Tuesday, March 25th at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Here’s an interview with educator, performer, and acting coach Elaine Hall, the mother of Neal, one of the children in […]
According to Access Hollywood, an autistic boy plays the autistic child in ABC’s comedic legal drama “Eli Stone,” scheduled to premier tonight. This is an interesting development, to have an autistic child playing an autistic child: People have often questioned and criticized the accuracy and authenticity of actors and actresses playing autistic characters, as Dustin […]
Houston Texas players Jason Simmons and Ahman Green helped make it possible for single mother Regina Foster, whose son Reggie is autistic, to make a $50,000 down payment on a house in a Houston suburb, today’s Sports Illustrated reports. A mother in the Chicago area, Kristin M. Scott, writes a letter reflecting on all those […]
An autistic student (your autistic son or daughter) has a great talent for something and you seek for your child to go as far as possible, in full acknowledgement of his or her disability: Has this happened to you?
I have described a frustrating situation at our swimming pool: Charlie is only able to swim […]
If you hear about Arthur Miller—a witch hunt—McCarthyism—-the first thing that might come to mind is Miller’s 1952 play The Crucible, which is often interpreted as an allegory for the McCarthy Hearings. In 1952, Joe McCarthy, the junior senator from Wisconsin, proclaimed that 205 Communists had infiltrated the State department. Actors, screenwriters, directors and others […]
As most of yesterday’s news reports about autism were about Jenny McCarthy and Holly Robinson Peete on Oprah, other stories were somewhat overlooked, including this one about another actor and celebrity who is himself on the autism spectrum. The September 19th Guardian profiles actor Dan Aykroyd, who notes that he has been diagnosed with “mild […]
In Greek mythology, Icarus is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, who makes wings out of wax. Father and son fly away from the palace of King Minos but Icarus flies too close to the sun and his wings melt, and he falls into the ocean. Icarus rises again in a play entitled “Izzy […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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