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More than a dozen disabilities groups—including the Arc of the United States, the National Down Syndrome Congress, the American Association of People With Disabilities—-are calling on Monday for a boycott of the movie Tropic Thunder, which is to be released this Wednesday. The film is directed by actor Ben Stiller and is, according to the […]
The secret to raising smart kids, that is. In last year’s Scientific American, Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck writes that focusing on effort, rather than intelligence or talent”—what she calls a “growth mind-set”—-helps make children “high achievers in school and in life.” A “focus on effort,” she writes, “can help resolve helplessness and engender success.” […]
A letter abstract in the June 22nd Nature Medicine is entitled Reversal of learning deficits in a Tsc2+/- mouse model of tuberous sclerosis. Tuberous sclerosis is a rare genetic disease that affects the central nervous system and causes benign tumors to grow on the brain, kidneys, heart, eyes, lungs, and skin. Those with TSC […]
It’s April 15th, halfway through Autism Awareness Month 2008, and you’ve surely heard more than a few mentions about the supposed “autism epidemic” that we’re currently facing, and musings about what is causing the recent rise in the prevalence rate of autism: In the 1960s, autism was considered a rare disorder that occurred in only […]
Google and genius; the meaning of MR and the meaning of intelligence; a new name for autism from David Kirby; an online town meeting for the NYU Child Study Center; a little presidential candidate politicking…….
Parents Don’t Cause Autism
And neither do vaccines or something in vaccines.
Myth, Science, and Autism: A Message from the AAP
Well aware […]
Writes Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing about the Wired magazine article on autism featuring Amanda Baggs and Michelle Dawson:
The article looks into the long-held belief that autism and retardation are tied together and concludes that this just isn’t true — rather, that people with autism have been incorrectly classed as retarded for generations.
Yes.
It’s very […]
Go here to read Wired’s article, The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know. The article closely profiles Amanda Baggs—-who notes that “‘I don’t fit the stereotype of autism. But who does?’”— and Michelle Dawson—-who says “‘There’s such a variety of human behavior. Why is my kind wrong?”‘.
And some words by Mike […]
Brain overgrowth in the latter part of an infant’s first year has been found to be connected to autism in some cases. Today’s Ars Technica reviews the findings of Joseph Piven, the director of the Neurodevelopmental Disorders Research Center at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and also issues a caveat.
Under normal brain development, […]
A child is now able to attend school in the same grade as his same-aged peers—without an aide or any special services; his academic skills are at grade level or above; he plays video games.
The above description equals “recovery from autism,” in the words of two parents I recently encountered. This “recovery” was attributed strictly […]
A daily constitutional can be better for your brain’s health than a software program?
Charlie being a big-time bike rider and at home swimming in the ocean—-and continuing to benefit from daily adapted P.E. at 11.30am at school—I was glad to read a November 8th New York Times op-ed, Exercise on the Brain by Sandra Aamodt, […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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