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There are private schools for autistic kids here in New Jersey that have waiting list of a couple hundred kids. In Palatine, Illnois, the privately operated, public funded New Connections Academy has also had to turn students away for lack of space, the October 7th Daily Herald reports. The school serves “high-functioning autistic children and […]
The October 6th Arizona Republic describes a program developed by the Phoenix-based Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center to help autistic children “successfully fit into the often intimidating social mix of recess.” Autistic students are first taught board games or tag or other games and other students are brought in to learn to play with […]
Yesterday I asked on the ScienceBlogs Book Club about how we can frame vaccines to combat what seems to be widespread public ignorance, or at least uncertainty, about what causes autism and what autism is.
So how about this for a message for what autism is?
Yes, that’s my son Charlie off on a bike ride. […]
Thinking again about what happens for autistic kids after school ends: At Midwestern State University in Texas Kansas, six students are living in the “initium house,” KAUZ reports. Three of the students are on the autism spectrum and three are peer mentors. They have daily study groups and weekly social skills training and counseling sessions […]
It’s a too familiar story to too many of us: Growing numbers of children diagnosed on the autism spectrum and school districts straining, and groaning, under the need (the onus) to provide appropriate services and educational placements, aides and speech therapists who know how to teach an autistic child and not only run articulation drills, […]
Every day as I drive to and from work I see the buses: Little yellow schoolbuses like the one Charlie rides; minivans with faded lettering (”Angeline’s Transportation”; “school children inside”; “this vehicle stops at ALL train tracks”), sometimes with a rather jalopy quality and lots of dents in the fenders. We’re fortunate that Charlie is […]
Given what’s going on in the world right now—this thing called an “economic crisis“—reporting about what one celebrity said about what another actress said about vaccines seems, well, something to remark upon and move on from, in order to read about how the financial crisis might affect credit for school districts. From Education Week today:
With […]
Tomorrow, September 30th, is the deadline to submit a comment regarding the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC)’s Draft Strategic Plan for ASD Research. Feedback is sought from ASD stakeholders which means—as you’re reading this blog—you: individuals with ASD and their families, scientists, health professionals, therapists, educators, officials of state and local programs for ASD, and […]
Send students to out-of-district private school placements or bite the bullet and devote funds to creating in-district educational programs that can truly meet a student’s needs? The school district in Meriden, Connecticut, is weighing both options, as a September 27th Record-Journal article details. Out of a total of over 1,300 special education students, 207 Meriden […]
I signed Charlie up for a special needs kids bowling league every Wednesday. It’s at the same bowling alley we’ve been going to all summer and with many of the same kids. Yesterday Charlie bowled a few, poked a finger in some ketchup on a plate of French fries, and sat with his head against […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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