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Are nasty neighbors affecting your home’s value? asks a report today on ABC news.
I’ll be honest—we do tend to be neighbors who can be noisy, though never in the form of blasting loud music, wild parties, and the like. Neighbors have had to hear us (occasional, and less frequent in than in the past) hollering […]
In Terre Haute, Indiana, Barbara Sollers needed a fence and Quality Fence built one. Sollers’ five-year-old son, Zach, is autistic; her husband is in a wheelchair and Sollers is only person who could be with Zach outside. The Terre Haute News reports that Zach’s school aide, Nancy Alkire, called Quality Fence. Owner Matt Dillon and […]
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 […]
An Oregon family has won a $40,000 settlement from a Portland, Oregon apartment owner and management company. Daniel and Jenny Sanchez claimed that Princeton Property Management, Inc. refused to accommodate the needs their of three-year-old autistic son. From press release from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development:
The Sanchezes alleged that Princeton Property Management, […]
The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) coordinates research and efforts pertaining to autism spectrum disorder (ASD) within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The IACC met this past Monday, May 12 in Washington, D.C. I had attended the November 2007 meeting and learned a great deal and was hoping to attend this […]
Herb Heflich, executive of 10 NJ properties for senior citizens, has a plan to create a supported living facility for autistic adults—”a group home without the stuffiness of an institution“—in central NJ:
Designed to give adults with autism around-the-clock care — ranging from physical and occupational therapy to “vocational rehabilitation” — the two-story building proposed by […]
In yesterday’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer, journalist Paul Nyhan writes about parents as the “invisible casualties” when a child has autism. 4-year-old Sharky Munat’s mother, Lillie Addams, recalls when the police showed up because Sharky’s screams permeated the thin walls of their apartment. After her son was diagnosed with autism, Addams went through “depression, chest-seizing anxiety attacks, […]
Autism Awareness Month 2008 ended Wednesday; here in my state of New Jersey, Senator Robert Menendez marked the closing of the month by unveiling the Helpings HANDS for Autism Act. The act calls for the creation of “autism navigators” to assist families in figuring out services; training for law enforcement and other primary responders; and […]
That’s the question I keep seeming to run into among parents: Where to live to get the best possible services for an autistic child? Over at About.com, Lisa Jo Rudy asks where should families move for better autism resources and notes that “in the United States, autism resources vary radically from state to state, […]
Below is the press release about the new autism legislation that New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez unveiled this morning in Weehawken, in Hudson County in northern New Jersey. The legislation has three parts: The creation of “autism navigators” to help families “navigate” their way through services, treatment options, and much more; the development and […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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