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Whether or not to try biomedical treatments is a question that’s perhaps unavoidable for parents with an autistic child today. One hears constant, albeit anecdotal, reports of a child who has “recovered“; the publication of Louder Than Words: A Mother’s Journey in Healing Autism last fall by Jenny McCarthy further renewed attention on such […]
“Detoxifying” a child’s body of “heavy metals” via chelation is an alternative, and not uncontroversial, treatment for autism. It is based on the belief that exposure to environmental toxins is one factor behind the increase in the number of children diagnosed with autism in the past decade-plus. This book talks about the dangers of heavy […]
Today’s Concord Monitor profiles Kathleen Seidel, who maintains the Neurodiversity.com website and who recently quashed a subpoena delivered to her by vaccine litigation lawyer Clifford Shoemaker. According to the article (and these are my sentiments exactly):
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After a lot of hesitation about riding his new bike, Charlie hoisted himself up, put his left foot on the left pedal, put his right foot on, and zoomed off with Jim easily catching up—that’s the image in my mind after a full week here.
Parents Going Back to School
Some parents of autistic children are returning […]
Considering how many pressing issues there are to talk regarding children and adults—education, employment, housing, to name a very few—-why do we keep getting stuck talking about the hypothetical claim of a link between vaccines and autism?
Here’s some thoughts towards why the whole issue seems to have devolved into something approaching paranoia, not to mention […]
There are a lot of experimental and “alternative” treatments out there for autism, one of which is stem cell therapy. There are currently no clinical trials underway in the US for using stem cell therapy for autism and the treatment is not allowed in the US. A family wishing to pursue this therapy would have […]
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 […]
I recently got a message about a local meeting of an autism organization that supports “immediate” alternative treatments for autistic children. I’m not able to attend the meeting and have been thinking about that word “immediate.”
It’s not hard to understand why a parent would want some way to stop a child from head-banging (as my […]
Classes started at the college where I teach last Wednesday, so I knew it would be a busy week. As the posts below suggest, the past week turned out to be far busier, and intenser, and more emotionally wrenching, than I had bargained for.
Wishing the family of Katie McCarron much peace: Katie will be remembered.
Autism […]
I guess it goes without saying that the rise and fall of the New York University Center’s “Ransom Notes” dominated much of the news about autism last week. Other highlights:
BBDOWe travel to Brooklyn, the Bowery, and elsewhere in and around lower Manhattan courtesy of the PATH train, the subway, and New Jersey Transit.
14-year-old girl types […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
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