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Tuesday morning Jim and I were interviewed for an autism documentary in the making. The director and his crew came to my office in Jersey City, which is in an old single-family house, with barely any space between it in and the neighboring houses (one of which contains my college’s mailroom). Jim and I were […]
Said NBC’s chief medical editor, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, during a recent Today show segment on Missouri families seeking insurance coverage for autism treatments:
“The burden right now is on the parents and I think most Americans would say that’s not fair because the goal has to be intensive treatment early and get these kids into mainstream […]
After legislators in Oklahoma did not pass Nick’s Law (which called for insurance coverage for autism treatments) at least one family is leaving the state to get services for their autistic child in another part of the country. Doug and Caroline Hall are moving to Cincinnati for the sake of their 4 1/2 year […]
Those are the very words that Rep. Ron Peterson (R-Broken Arrow) used to refer to autistic children in a “puff piece” profile distributed by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA), according to the May 28th OKC Business.com (the profile can also be read on Nick’s Law and Autism Legislation in Oklahoma). There’s a fight […]
Up until last week, posts about “mercury” and “Jenny McCarthy” had the most comments—-after last week, the topic of religion and the restraining order filed against the parents of Adam Race generated a torrent of discussion that’s still going on).
Priest Files Restraining Order Against Parents of Autistic 13-year-old
Some 250-plus comments about Adam Race and […]
Two comments by officials in two Utah insurance companies suggest how much is still not known about autism. From today’s Salt Lake Tribune:
“Is it even a defined disease? It’s a heart-breaking condition, but they don’t know the etiology, they don’t know the source,” said SelectHealth’s Medical Director Ken Schaechar. Autism is one of five pervasive […]
So what do you do if your state passes autism legislation (as my state, New Jersey, did in September of 2007) and then it gets stalled by budget cuts—-when the bill gets passed but there’s no funding as it’s an austere buget year” ? In Florida, the Window of Opportunity Act was passed by the […]
The April 14th St. Louis Post-Dispatch makes a case for the need for insurance coverage for autism treatment. SB 1122 would allow for insurance coverage “for the treatment of autism under certain conditions”: Autistic children who are “less than 16 years of age” would qualify for up to $50,000 per year of behavior therapy. […]
It’s April, it’s Autism Awareness Month, and last week saw the inaugural World Autism Day on April 2nd, and there were a whole lot of autism stories in the news——and there’s still three more weeks to go.
This April has some added significance for me: It’s Charlie’s last month of being 10 years old as his […]
After their now-7-year-old son Ryan was diagnosed with autism 5 years ago, Lorri and Dan Unumb “they sold their house, downsized and sacrificed to cover costs,” an April 1st CNN story reports. Intensive behavior therapy for Ryan costs between $70,000 and $80,000 a year which is lawyer and law professor Lorri Unumb’s “entire salary.” The […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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