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Mega-autism-organization Autism Speaks has launched yet another fund-raising event. It’s called Eat, Shop, Give: If you’re in Montgomery County, Maryland, you can purchase a special Eat, Shop, Give (ESG) key tag for $50.00 and get discounts at certain businesses from the 21st through the 27th of April.
“Eat, Shop, Give” is a sort of telegraphic […]
We didn’t catch the Night of Too Many Stars: An Overlooked Benefit for Autism Education comedy show on Sunday night (no TV around here) but it just occurred to me that we were there, sort of: The concert was held at the Beacon Theatre on the Upper West Side in New York, right where were […]
It’s April 1st and the start of “Autism Awareness Month”: There’ll be plenty in the news about autism and also appeals to support research—and what kind of research, in particular?
Last year (FY 2007), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) devoted $127 million to research autism spectrum disorders through “grants, contracts, research projects conducted as […]
I honestly was just not sure how else to refer to this about Lloyd Scott, a former professional footballer and firefighter who, after being diagnosed with leukemia and receiving a bone marrow transplant, has “raked in more than £5 million for a host of causes”:
Next year will see the 20th anniversary of his life-saving bone […]
The Ransom Notes “public awareness” campaign is over but the notion that autistic children have been “kidnapped” remains: See the December 28th Palm Beach Daily News (which also comments on the “epidemic nature of autism”).
(Last time I checked my autistic was right here beside me—-on a Southwest Airlines flight from California back to Philadelphia.)
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Rescue me: That is the essence of the message of the “Ransom Notes” “public awareness campaign” that the New York University Child Study Center is launching. I’ve noted the use of shocking and alarmist language in the ads, which feature fictional “ransom notes,” with the captors being “untreated psychiatric disorders,” including autism, Asperger Syndrome, bulimia, […]
A Sister’s Dream: 10-Year-Old Raises Thousands for Autism Research: An Experimental Treatment Helped Her Brother And Inspired Michala Riggle was an autism news headline yesterday. Riggle, who lives in Kentucky, raised the money by making and selling bracelets. The Riggles note that, after the “experimental” treatments, their son Evan was able to dress himself; one […]
“Giving back is the new black,” according to Fashiontribes.com: Beyoncé is “fighting autism through fashion” via Clothes Off Our Back.
Does that mean that the usual “autism mother uniform” (machine-washable, stain-proof, quick-drying, rumpled. needing-to-be-washed) might be the next choice of the It Girl?
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The Flab Four touch down in New York City, at JFK Airport, on March 26th to begin their “incredible simulation” of the Beatles’ 1964 “British Invasion” and to kick off a $500,000-plus campaign to “help broaden the appeal of the Teletubbies beyond the mainstay audiences of toddlers and parents.” As an article in the March […]
I have never done a statistical analysis of this, but I suspect that were I to tally up the number of news stories, articles, books, etc. that describe autism as a “daily hell,” “devastating,” “tragedy,” etc. to those that present something a bit more optimistic, the former would outnumber the latter by a ratio of, […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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