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Back in July, it was reported that the rate of autism in Somali children in Minnapolis was notably high. According to the Minnesota Department of Education:
in the Minneapolis’ early childhood and kindergarten programs, more than 12 percent of the students with autism reported speaking Somali at home. According to Minneapolis school officials, more than 17 […]
The woman I spoke to at the birthday party yesterday told me that her brother had been institutionalized at the Cambridge State Hospital. Originally called the Minnesota Colony for Epilectics, it became a state hospital for the developmentally disabled and for those with “mental deficiencies” in 1949; it reached its peak population of 2008 in […]
Autism gets mentioned for the first time in a presidential debate on October 15th; here’s more news:
After Many Years, A Diagnosis
Deborah Lipsky was in her 40s when she found out that has autism.
There Goes Another Autism Myth
While out riding his bike, Charlie hears another child crying and…….
Denis Leary Does a Michael Savage
I […]
Jim noted to me last night that the stock market is now pretty much back to where it was around the time Charlie was born.
Having spent the past ten days writing about vaccines and autism for the Science Blogs Book Club, it’s occurred to me that the whole vaccine-autism issue has been part of, and […]
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 […]
Professor Marion Leboyer, University of Paris, France, recently presented on the compelling neurobiological story of discovering the first autism genes (some of them, so far), as noted in today’s Science Daily. And the story (the book) of how another prominent (if unproven) theory of autism causation—-vaccines—arose is coming soon to bookstores near you……
Tags: asd, asperger, […]
Yes, we’ve been on vacation; meanwhile, the usual back and forth about vaccines and autism rages: CBS news say they’ve unearthed “details of a third case of vaccine injury in a child born in 1974″—as Kev’s noted, Kathleen Seidel described this same case five months ago on the Neurodiversity blog, CBS news is catching […]
All three of us were born in the USA: Jim on the East coast, me out West, and Charlie inbetween in a city on the Mississippi. Happy 4th of July (if you’re American)—-though this particular holiday isn’t alwyas the easiest for autistic individuals. Fireworks are loud and it seems that every town here in New […]
One of Jim’s aunts—his mother’s youngest sister—died suddenly Wednesday of a heart attack. She was in her 70s and, while she had some minor health problems, no history of heart trouble. She was through and through a down-to-earth, warm-hearted, caring, and generous woman. She was a people person, who always had holidays and parties with […]
We were walking down the West Side Highway in Manhattan on Saturday when Charlie started running and laughing. Jim and I saw that we were nearing the shed where you can take out a kayak into the Hudson River—-we had passed the shed back in April and met a retired longshoreman who’d noted how he […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
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