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So I come home to a sandy car and sand all over the couch (good signs of a fun trip to the beach) and this headline in the New Jersey Star-Ledger:
Rise in number of children diagnosed with autism makes parents wary
Reporter Kathleen O’Brien interviewed a number of doctors and, in particular, pediatricians, as well as […]
Said Charlie. He and Jim had driven for 3 1/2 hours on the Garden State Parkway to the beach; swam in some mighty cold water (no one else was in); had a delicious seafood dinner; went to the rides. And then, per Charlie’s request, home.
Time for me to go home, too.
Tags: asd, asperger, autism, autism […]
Sunday brought another report of an individual on the autism spectrum—13-year-old Anthony Kiraly, who has Asperger Syndrome, of Empire, Wisconsin—-who wandered away from his home and was found 20 miles away after the Sheriff’s Department had been contacted and conducted a full-scale search by ground and helicopter. Elopement—wandering—has been a not-uncommon story in the news […]
Friends had invited us to a pool party on Saturday afternoon. Jim had been asked to speak at a workshop here so I looked up directions on Google Maps, wrote them down, and off Charlie and I went—-only to spend an hour and 15 minutes driving in circles on both sides of a state road. […]
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 […]
“As every parent of a child with special needs knows, some days you can handle it; other days you just lose it,” the New Jersey mother of an autistic son notes. But her faith in “the world” is restored when, recently and out of the blue, other people gave up their places in line at […]
Noise seems to have become a bit of a theme around here, if not part of a sort of soundtrack. Charlie’s sensitivity to sounds—something he never had until this year—-is so great that he plants his hands over his ears soon as I try to turn on the car radio. Motorcycles, police and ambulance sirens, […]
Update, 9am, 1 July: Today’s Washington Post has a story about Peter Hotez, the president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, the chair of George Washington University’s department of microbiology, immunology and tropical medicine, and a consultant to the Gates Foundation, which is helping to develop vaccines to fight neglected diseases; his 15-year-old daughter, Rachel, is […]
Salvatore Pizzuto—”disability policy specialist, learning consultant, transition specialist and parent/family advocate from East Rutherford”—writes in the June 26th Leader “(the Pulse of the Meadowlands)”:
Autism has become a buzz word in New Jersey that transcends other disabilities that affect children and adults, in terms of its diagnostic and political impact. Over the past two years, several […]
An Oklahoma judge has ruled in favor of the Cashion School District against a family seeking appropriate educational services for their twin autistic daughters, 7-year-old Kaitlyn and Kayleigh Berry. From the June 21st Hays Daily News:
“Obviously, I’m very pleased with the outcome,” said Cashion Superintendent Todd Garrison.
Barry wrote in an e-mail Friday to The Oklahoman […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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