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After her 3-year-old son, Alec, was diagnosed with autism in April of this year, he and his mother, Andrea Nicholson, moved from their home in Bracebridge to another place where the waiting list for services (specifically Intensive Behavior Intervention or IBI, or ABA in the US) was not dauntingly long. Today’s Gravenhurst Banner notes that […]
Having considered prenatal genetic testing and autism, what about the possible influence of the environment of the womb on a developing baby? An October 10th article in Slate with the provocative title of Womb Raider asks if future health problems occur during gestation:
Recently, a study of 1,044 mother-child pairs found that 3-year-olds born to mothers […]
Currently, there’s no prenatal genetic test for autism. Long ago (as in “around the time I first started writing this blog”) I referred to such testing as “fighting word“: While some would welcome the notion of knowing that a child-to-be would have a disability, others have been quick to point out the possibility of people […]
One of these days I mean to plant some seeds—from a sunflower, a zucchini, a Chinese melon—with Charlie and follow the routines of watering and watching the skies and sun and looking for growth.
In Lake Elsinore, North Carolina, a vegetable garden is growing on the grounds of Canyon Lake Middle School. Adina Ross, who teaches […]
Sunday night, it happened that we drove past Charlie’s old school.
I don’t mean the elementary school he attended last year before moving up to middle school and simply loved. The main part of that school was an old stone building that had been added onto; the school was located on a quiet street with a […]
If you haven’t already read Measles not worth the risk, an October 6th op-ed by epidemiologist John Laurence Kiely, go here. Kiely recalls having the measles and then pneumonia, and being hospitalized, and under an oxygen tent, and his mother’s distraught face. But, as he notes:
Most Americans don’t remember those days. Why? Because four years […]
So after a sunny Sunday topped up with exuberant bike riding and one of his all-time favorite meals at his all-time favorite Jersey hamburger stand, Charlie woke up on Monday morning with heavy-duty sniffles, a gurgly cough, and a hot forehead. Jim had gone out to wait for the bus while I got Charlie ready […]
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. […]
Charlie’s an only child and we’ve plenty going on: In Michigan, the Johnson family have four daughters, all of whom are autistic. An article (dated January 28th) in MLive.com describes the family and each daughter. The Kirton family have six children and all are autistic. “Autism X 6,” a documentary about the Utah family, […]
Size 7 1/2.
That’s the size of bowling shoes I got for Charlie on Wednesday afternoon, when we go to a local bowling alley with a group of kids like Charlie and their families. I loosened the laces and pulled out the shoe’s tongue so Charlie could slide his feet in and as he did I […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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