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Not that I’d get it, but I’m thinking Charlie might once have been entranced by this number scarf from the Little Factory. He learned 1-10 quickly and easily when he was 2 1/2 and had a certain fascination with 3 (he’d turn a letter E block backwards to make it look like 3) and, sometimes, […]
Charlie’s been doing really well this past year to the point that sometimes Jim and I try to change things up a little too fast or much for him. I guess you could say, we get used to Charlie being able to do “whatever” and then we just go ahead (blunder on) and make some […]
Autism now occurs in every 1 in 150 children, according to figures released in February of 2007 by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. To illustrate what some term an “autism epidemic” (including three presidential candidates), people regularly compare the prevalence rate of children diagnosed with autism to that of children diagnosed with […]
1 in 150.
1 in 94.
1 in 67.
These and other statistics are frequently heard in discussions about autism, and especially when the topic is the so-called autism epidemic and the rising prevalence rate of autism (occurring in only about 3 in every 10,000 children in the 1960s); they make for good t-shirts and headlines. I guess […]
These days it seems that more children have autism and that we hear a lot more about autism: Why?
When people try to account for the dramatic rise in the prevalence of autism in the past few years—in the 1960s, autism was considered a rare disorder that occurred in only about 3 in every 10,000 children; […]
Unus, duo, tres, quattuor, quinque, sex, septem, octo, novem, decem: These are the numbers from 1-10 in Latin. I reeled them off to my Elementary Latin class, who had been tallying up all the things they need to know for next week’s midterm: Enough with the third declension and the imperfect tense!
Sometimes, in teaching, you […]
Finite Math—-Calculus—-Differential Calculus—-Honors Seminar in Finite Math: I have been contemplating the differences among these as I have been registering incoming freshmen students for fall classes at the New Jersey college where I teach. Biology majors need to take Calculus; Biotechnology majors, Differential, and that meets four days a week instead of three; everybody has […]
Last week’s news story announcing that the incidence of autism was 1 in 58 was “alarmist and wrong,” says Professor Simon Baron-Cohen. Anjana Ahuja in the July 12th Times Online interviews Baron-Cohen who notes that:
It is possible that the one-in-58 figure comes from ARC’s use of the Childhood Asperger’s Syndrome Test (CAST), a questionnaire […]
Charlie learned his numbers from 1- 10 quickly when he was 2 1/2 years old and long had a fascination with just looking at some of the numbers, especially 3 and 5. He is not hyperlexic and only really knew the alphabet with certainty last year (and he still confuses capital B, D, and G, […]
I have never done a statistical analysis of this, but I suspect that were I to tally up the number of news stories, articles, books, etc. that describe autism as a “daily hell,” “devastating,” “tragedy,” etc. to those that present something a bit more optimistic, the former would outnumber the latter by a ratio of, […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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