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Is this American’s favorite mom? asks the Gainesville Times about Donna Aldridge, who has an autistic son, Ryan, and a speech-delayed daughter, Julie, and whose husband nominated her for NBC’s America’s Favorite Mom, with the winner to be announced on May 11 (which is, surprise surprise, Mother’s Day). I have to say, I know many […]
March was the first month in the calendar of the ancient Romans and it makes sense to me that the Romans, originally an agricultural people, would being the year in the spring, when new things are growing and there’s all that new energy of new green things. As it’s February 2nd (”Groundhog Day” here in […]
2007 ended with the disability community and parents rallying together to protest the Ransom Notes ad campaign; 2008 began with a call for participants in a new study that hopes to identify and treat autism in infants of autistic siblings. Some highlights:
A Christmas StoryA Christmas day post that discusses the Judge Rotenburg Center; […]
The title of this post is an English translation of a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Dauer im Wechsel……….yes, I do realize that it is sometime on Saturday, or sometime on the first weekend of 2008 for you, and so not the best moment to start talking about German Romanticism.
But yes, the photo is […]
Charlie ended 2007 one of his favorite ways: A train trip into lower Manhattan, a walk through Chinatown and Soho, and dinner at Whole Foods (it being New Year’s Eve, he got a double-course dinner of sushi and spring rolls). And now we’re back in Jersey and I’m trying to get some scratched-up Wiggles […]
On Christmas, just before noon, my family goes to the cemetery. With flowers in the trunk, we go up the winding paths (the cemetery is located in the Oakland hills), and up almost to the top to where there’s a slope that looks west towards the Pacific. “From here,” my father said to me in […]
Houston Texas players Jason Simmons and Ahman Green helped make it possible for single mother Regina Foster, whose son Reggie is autistic, to make a $50,000 down payment on a house in a Houston suburb, today’s Sports Illustrated reports. A mother in the Chicago area, Kristin M. Scott, writes a letter reflecting on all those […]
Today’s Omni Brain explains why “Jingle Bells” or “Frosty” (or, in my case, “Holly Jolly Christmas”) gets stuck in your head:
Commonly known as earworms, some songs repeat in our mind. They are “typically annoying,” said Dr. [Robert] Zatorre [Co-Director of the BRAMS: Brain Music and Sound lab at the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University]. […]
I noted that making Charlie’s transition to middle school—-to a new and bigger school, a new teacher, many new students—-was on my Christmas wish list. Disputes about the causes of autism, controversies about how autism is represented to the public, new studies about treatments: These come and go, but what’s constant for me is the […]
……a garbage truck, in the case of 15-year-old Zachary Harrison. The December 22nd KUTV notes that indeed got his wish, times three……
Myself, I would be glad with things far smaller. One 25-hour-day per week; a pound of coffee always to be found in the freezer.Ok, while I’m asking, two more things: A smooth transition to […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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