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Last Sunday a group of experts on mitochondrial disorders met for a meeting in Indianapolis to discuss the case of Hannah Poling, whose underlying mitochondrial disorder was found to have been aggravated by vaccines, after which she developed symptoms of autism. A June 30th New York Times article announced the meeting and noted the case […]
The latest update of the Associated Press Stylebook says, no more using “mentally retarded” (”mentally disabled” is preferred). Notes Gawker:
Journo-nerds rejoice: the AP Stylebook has been updated! It’s the Bible of all that is considered acceptable in middle American newsrooms, and, like middle America itself, is consistently several years behind the times.
Make that at least […]
Late Sunday afternoon Charlie was hanging around the front door when I looked at him and saw that three of his left hand fingers were bloody, and then noticed a similar Hawaiian Punch-like stain on his left cheek and a little white wadded-up-paper-looking-thing in his right thumb and finger….
“You lost a tooth!” I said.
“Tooth!” said […]
13-year-old Thomas Gonzales plays trumpet, trombone, baritone and flugelhorn and has accepted an offer to be a professional member of Mariachi Nuevo Ensueño in Azusa, California, the June 15th Whittier Daily News:
Michelle Lazar, founder of Coast Music Therapy, a San Diego-based agency for children with special needs, said that while the topic has yet to […]
Panic disorder and the inability to express emotions (alexithymia) may be related, according to a new study:
In patients with panic disorder (PD), the difficulty to identify and manage emotional experience might contribute to the enduring vulnerability to panic attacks. Such a difficulty might reflect a dysfunction of fronto-temporo-limbic circuits.
Moments of extreme panic—catastrophic thinking, anxiety—-in Charlie […]
A couple of years while teaching this poem to an English Literature 101 class at a mid-sized university in New Jersey (it’s not where I teach now), I asked my class what “green” signifies. While we live in New Jersey, I grew up in California (think Berkeley not Los Angeles) and — having started to […]
Jennifer Buettner, who has three young children, has created a new company called Efficacy Brands which makes placebos for children. The company will see cherry-flavored dextrose tablets (”Obecalp”—-guess what word that is, spelled backwards?); $5.95 for a bottle of 50. Buettner came up with the idea while taking care of a niece with a “raging […]
It’s Memorial Day here in the US: We’ve seen the red white and blue flying and people lining up to watch parades in honor of those who’ve served. Last night in the New York Times Magazine, I read the story of 27-year-old Sgt. Shurvon Philips, who suffered severe traumatic brain injury (T.B.I.) after an anti-tank […]
I just got back from Commencement at the college where I teach. We don’t have the facilities to hold the event on campus and it’s held some distance away down the Garden State Parkway. I’ve been teaching at my college for three years now and have gotten to know some students fairly well: So exciting […]
I never got around to making a list of last week’s top posts last week so here’s two weeks of “top posts” about autism. Rather than arrange them in chronological order, I’ve arranged them by topic:
My son Charlie turned 11 last Thursday, on May 15th. Life on the road with Charlie is my constant theme […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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