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The Military Family Autism Equality Act (HR3690) will provide retired military families with autistic children the same health care benefits as active duty services members, today’s Mount Vernon Gazette reports. Some 8,784 retiree families stand to benefit, according to Department of Defense statistics. The legislation was introduced by Virginia Congressman James P. Moran (D-8) and […]
So having previously rebranded autism as “Environmentally-acquired Neuroimmune Disorder” or “E.N.D.” (that was over a year ago) and then dubbed autism “vaccine aggravated mitochondrial disorder (in February of this year), and then referred to it as “autistic encephalopathy“—all meant to suggest that what autistic children “have” is some disease caused by an environmental trigger […]
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 […]
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 […]
Rage.
Do you ever feel it? Or maybe I should say, need I ask?
As the parent of an autistic child doing my best to take care of him, to represent his needs before bureaucrats at an IEP meeting or to medical professionals who nod and that’s all, to ignore a random passerby who has stared: […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is putting its not insignificant resources behind funding the Global Autonomous Language Exploitation (GALE), with the goal of “developing a set of software engines that can transcribe, translate, and summarize both text and speech without training or human intervention” and, more specifically, “to address the lack of qualified […]
Kim Stagliano, mother of three autistic daughters, explains why George Bush ought to have appointed one of us to plan strategy for the war in Iraq in today’s Huffington Post.
The autism mom must plan several moves ahead, just to get through the day. A simple trip to the grocery store requires the preparation of a […]
My post on the death of Katherine McCarron, Weapons of Autistic Destruction: Violent Words and Violent Deeds attempted to connect the violent language too often used to talk about autism to actual, real violence done to autistic persons. I have especially noted metaphors of war, fighting, battle, destroying, and more used in regard to autism.
For […]
“Do I say my child has autism?”
“Will he get different treatment if I do?”
“But how else can I explain that she’s doing [fill in seemingly “inappropriate” activity] because she’s autistic and not because she is ‘bad’?”
These questions cross the mind of most parents when they are in a public setting with their autistic child who […]
Saying that he does not meet enrollment criteria, the Army released 18-year old Jared Guinther, who is autistic, from his recruitment contract yesterday, two days after an Oregon newspaper reported about his parents’ objections.
Writes Sara Skidmore in an Associated Press article:
Gaylan Johnson, spokesman for the United States Military Entrance Processing Command, said Guinther’s disability was not disclosed in […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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