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From Hard-Hitting Look at Autism Is Being Shown at Sundance, an article in the January 21st New York Times by Abigail Sullivan Moore about the new version of the Autism Every Day film that is being shown at the Sundance Film Festival.
For Sundance, the piece was expanded to 44 minutes, still focusing on more […]
Not sure I can agree with much in this description of autism from a story in the January 6th Washington Times about two hockey players, Olie Kolzig and Byron Dafoe, who are both fathers of children with autism.
Autism is a disease that attacks children, mostly males, scrambling the brain waves in such a way that […]
“Columbus was not in the Indies, mercury doesn’t cause autism, and there is no autism epidemic.”
David Kirby, author of Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic - A Medical Controversy, wrote that in the provocatively titled There is no autism epidemic in today’s Huffington Post. Kirby, noting that he has been “vilified” […]
Rome, as is said, was not built in a day, and neither was the far-flung Roman Empire. It was under the Roman Republic (509 - 23 BC) that the neighboring peoples and cities on the Italian peninsula were gradually brought under Rome’s influence and, following the Punic Wars in the third and second centuries BC, […]
“There are autisms,” Suzanne Wright of Autism Speaks was quoted as saying at a fundraising dinner for the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Foundation (according to FoxNews.com).
Or rather, there are autistic persons, autistic individuals.
And further: autism, while it might occur in “different manifestations,” need not be (as the reporter describes it in reference to Wright and […]
Beth Feldman of The Huffington Post has written today about Autism Speaks Senior Vice President and autism mother Alison Tepper Singer. Singer, writes Feldman, is a “mom of reinvention.”
In a previous post entitled Karen McCarron, Alison Tepper Singer, and misplaced compassion, I wrote about Singer and Dr. Karen McCarron, who allegedly killed her daughter […]
Email and blogs have provided me with a more than appreciated, and very much needed, support network as an Autismland mother. But there is nothing like sitting down with other parents and relatives of autistic children face to face and talking. The connection is immediate; the topics seemingly endless. One such support group for the […]
With the big money going to basic research into the causes of autism, some on the front lines — those who work with children and adults who have autism — are frustrated.
Notes reporter Lindy Washburn in today’s Bergen Record, Unraveling autism’s mystery. The article is the second in a week-long series.
Indeed: So much funding […]
That is the title of a piece about Marcus Fiesel by columnist Rick McCrabb that appeared in the September 2nd Middletown Journal. This is the beginning of We cared too late:
If only we were this fascinated with Marcus Fiesel when he was alive.
No one in this newsroom ever met Marcus, but now that his […]
A memorial grove of trees is being planted for Katherine McCarron in Scotland, through Trees for Life.
When Charlie was two and a half years old, he loved to watch a computer-animated segment of a tree on the Teletubbies show. Jim would often watch it with him, watch the leaves grow on the tree, birds […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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