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Linda Powell, a primary school teacher at St John’s CE in Kearsley (UK), has been suspended amid claims that she allegedly struck a 7-year-old girl. As reported in the Bolton News, the school has faced controversy before about its treatment of special needs students: In 2006, parents claimed that boys with special needs were being […]
We’re still going back and forth with Charlie’s case manager about a time for his IEP and annual review—-the district seems to want to have students’ meeting by the end of April (although it is possible for any member of the Child Study Team (CST) to call an IEP when that member wishes to; […]
There is no prenatal genetic test for autism; there has been speculation that, as research into the genetics of autism develops, such a test might be created. Back in June of 2006, a team of doctors at University College Hospital in London—in view of the fact that autism is diagnosed in boys at a much […]
Autism does change everything I wrote last Friday—-looking over the topics of last week’s posts, it seems that a little bit of everything from lipstick to sushi to communication notebooks to psychoanalysis to services for autistic adults to fictional mercury-based substances to how many girls have autism was discussed.
Yes, No, Brown Noodles!On the uses of […]
ABC’s Nightline is airing a special on girls with autism tonight, on ABC News World News with Charles Gibson at 6:30pm (ET) and on Nightline, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at 11:35pm (ET/PT). Aspie Dad posts a summary:
…in a surprising twist, correspondent John Donvan and producer Caren Zucker talk to several researchers and psychologists who believe […]
Language has always meant a lot to me: I taught myself to read when I was four years old and reading immediately became one of my favorite things to do. I started studying languages—French, a little Cantonese, then Latin and ancient Greek, German, Mandarin, Arabic—-when I was in elementary school and have always been drawn […]
The December 14th Guardian reports on a study that has found that geography, race, class and gender play a greater role in determining a child’s chances for getting help, over and above “the nature of the learning difficulty.” The study was done by Harry Daniels and Jill Porter of the University of Bath; their report […]
Today’s Chicago Tribune sings the praises of the “geek girl” and offers an overview of undiagnosed geek girlness in movies ranging from literary characters like Mary Bennett and Hermione (from Pride and Prejudice and the Harry Potter books) to The Truth About Cats and Dogs (”geek girl cult classic“), to Heather, who has Asperger Syndrome […]
Where’s the safety net? asks New York Times writer Judith Warner in an October 11th post about Carol Gotbaum. Gotbaum, who lived in Manhattan and was originally from South Africa, died on September 28th in a Phoenix Airport holding cell while on her way to alcohol rehab at a clinic in Tucson. The daughter-in-law of […]
Autism is a “whole body medical disease, not a hopeless genetic mental disorder,” Julie Obradovic writes in a Chicago Tribune Features Blog today. Obradovic says that her daughter, Eve, started on a “cascading spiral”—a “descent into….autism”—starting from the time she was three weeks old and developed a “‘weepy, hot, burn-like rash all over her face.’” […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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