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What do you do when your income is less than the cost of therapy for your autistic child? That’s the situation facing Dan and Sharon Springer, the parents of 8-year-old Joy Springer, in Nevada. According to KRNV today, Joy’s family also faces the loss of $1000 from Acumen, a state-funded program, due to a state […]
Retired Fort Myers physician John R. Agnew goes a step beyond the argument attributing the increase in autism to better diagnosis and awareness in today’s News-Press—–it’s also due to families increasingly seeking “government money.” Writes Agnew, “Once the government gets involved, money follows, along with rules and some bureaucratic thinking.” He does not specify what […]
It’s about three weeks till Charlie goes back to school. He’s (as often noted here) looking forward to it, as he knows that a good classroom with well-trained teachers and therapists awaits him. But what if you don’t have a school for your child to attend—-that’s the situation facing some autistic children in Tucson: KVOA […]
The optometrist that Charlie saw this week—and many of the doctors and the dentist that we have taken Charlie to over the years—was not covered by our insurance. We’ve filed claims, we’ve refiled, we’ve written cheques. An article in yesterday’s Washington Post describes how families of autistic children in Virginia—as families throughout the US—are seeking […]
On Sunday I saw a college friend who I haven’t seen since her wedding (which I was grateful I was even able to go to—–she got married just after we returned from the Midwest to New Jersey and Charlie, who was having a lot to adjust to, was still queasy from it all; Jim dropped […]
TonerforAutism was created by Joel Pearlman and Rob Dube and hopes to donate at least $1,000,000 by contributing 5% of every sale to organizations that support autism related research and issues. There’s certainly no shortage of ink to be spilled when autism’s under discussion.
Tags: asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, computer, disabilities blog, disability, Family, family […]
If you’re interested in listening in on a meeting of the Strategic Plan Workgroup of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) under the Combating Autism Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-416), go to the end of this post.
For the past several months, insurance—as in having insurance companies pay for treatments for autistic children—-has been a regular […]
With gas prices up, drivers push closer to the end of the tank and more towing services are getting called—–don’t think I can do this and strand Charlie and me on the left lane of the Pulaski Skyway!
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The average mother of a child under 15 spends more on fast food per year than on books, music, movies, and video games combined, the June 2nd New York Times reports. Ok, ok, we’re in this demographic (keeping in mind that Charlie plays and wants zero video games).
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After legislators in Oklahoma did not pass Nick’s Law (which called for insurance coverage for autism treatments) at least one family is leaving the state to get services for their autistic child in another part of the country. Doug and Caroline Hall are moving to Cincinnati for the sake of their 4 1/2 year […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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