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In recognition of National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month, b5media bloggers on the Health and Wellness Channel are blogging about the 12 step program of Alcoholics Anonymous. (For a list of the 12 posts on the 12 steps, check out Healthbolt.) This is Step 10:
Step 10 - Continued to take personal inventory and when […]
Simon Baron-Cohen, professor of developmental psychopathology at Cambridge University and director of the Autism Research Center in today’s Independent:
The word ‘disorder’ is too negative. I use the word “condition” – autism can be disabling, but not all of its features involve disability. Some of them are strengths.
The majority of people with autism have exceptional attention […]
I’ve noted frequently that Charlie is taller than me. But several months (maybe even a year) before I started to find myself looking up to him, I realized that Charlie’s were longer than mind. He’s always had long, tapering fingers since he was born; he never has a problem reaching an octave on the piano. […]
A simile, as my students are quick to tell me, is when you’re comparing something to something else and you use “as” or “like.” It’s a comparison of something by way of mentioning something else, and the “‘as’ or ‘like’” makes it very clear what you’re up to.
“Simile” is the title of one of my […]
The September 13th St. Paul Pioneer Press notes this about Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s “track record” on spending for special needs:
In the budget she signed into law earlier this year, Palin approved a dramatic raise in spending on children who have what Alaska officials call “intensive needs,” including children who need nurses full time or […]
It’s possible (possible) that Sarah Palin was a bigger topic around here than the usual suspects (vaccines……). The Nation and Foreign Policy have listed some questions for her: What’s yours?
Questions about disability policy and legislation for supports, services, and research preferred.
About the Two Babies in the Palin Family
As the mother of a special needs […]
An article in the September 10th New England Journal of Medicine entitled Recurrent Rearrangements of Chromosome 1q21.1 and Variable Pediatric Phenotypes describes the associations between a microdeletion at 1q21.1 and impairments including mental retardation associated with microcephaly, cardiac abnormalities, or cataracts. A microdeletion at 16p11.2 is associated with susceptibility to mental retardation or autism and […]
Without Trig, Governor Sarah Palin’s infant son who has Down Syndrome, what might discussions about her being Senator John McCain’s running mate be like?
Gov. Palin’s older sister, Heather Bruce, has an autistic child, an article in today’s New York Times notes:
Before her son was born, Ms. Palin went to extraordinary lengths to ensure that his […]
Here’s what readers have been saying in a very busy week in which we learned, or learned again, that the MMR vaccine does not cause autism:
Norah on whether the term “mild autism” is still in use and Larry on the “pop psychology typical of wired [magazine].”
Ongoing discussion about stem cell therapy as an autism treatment, […]
So as you may not, or may, have noticed, there is still some wonkiness going up with this blog. The good folks who handle are matters technological, software-related, and the like, have been working hard to migrate b5media’s blogs over to a new server and all should be well, webpages should load and updates occur, […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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