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Heralding an October 22nd lecture entitled “Are we ambitious enough about autism?” to be delivered by Autism Speaks co-found Bob Wright at the Treehouse charity in the UK Telegraph asks “Should we want to cure autism?”
After raising my son Charlie for these past 11 years, my answer is that (in the words of […]
Yesterday’s Wisconsin State Journal reports on changes in how the budget for severely developmentally disabled adults in Dane County is allocated, and how these affect individuals and the services they receive:
…….as more clients enter the system, the dollars are being spread thinner, with $76.5 million spent in 2007, the last year for which complete spending […]
The National Institute of Mental Health calls off a study on chelation as a treatment for autistic children. Safety concerns are cited and it also needs to be noted that the reasons for using chelation to “treat” autistic children rest on an unproven hypothesis about autism causation, that autistic children have mercury and/or “heavy metals” […]
Charlie and I caught the PATH train in Jersey City and got off at 23rd Street in Manhattan. We usually take it all the way to the end at 33rd Street where we catch a subway up to where Jim’s office is near Lincoln Center and get some dinner together but Friday night was different. […]
Pathophilia succinctly describes the CDC’s MMWR report and takes a closer look at the 131 cases of measles reported from January-July of this year. Writes Pathophilia:
The overwhelming majority of these cases were imported* (13%) or linked to imported disease (76%). (It is important to note that the number of imported measles cases in the United […]
Professor Stanley Fish of Florida International University, in Miami and dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, opens a post about “norms and deviations” on his New York Times blog by citing a letter published in Time magazine:
A letter published in the May 26 issue […]
At the 290th comment in the discussion about Adam Race and the priest restraining order, a question was asked about neurodiversity. The most recent New York Magazine has a long article by writer Andrew Solomon about, indeed, neurodiversity, the view that autism is not an illness, but a difference and a different way of […]
Is there a “vacuum” of information on autism, as Karin Klein writes in today’s Opinion LA?
Klein suggests that this “information vacuum” is one reason why, when it comes to autism, “people tend to rush in with theories, wild or otherwise” about the causes of autism (such as these), and especially theories about the supposed “autism […]
A philosopher, a clinical linguist, and a psychiatrist working in collaboration have found that, while autistic persons have difficulties using language appropriately in social settings—with using what are called language “pragmatics”—their use and comprehension of pragmatics in some settings is higher than previously tought. In particular, understanding of pragmatics is greater in a literal […]
Are people with autism trapped in their own world? Or are the rest of us just trapped in ours?
asks Tara Parker-Pope on the New York Times, regarding the the Wired magazine article on autism featuring Amanda Baggs and Michelle Dawson.
Parker-Pope asks a chicken and egg kind of question about autism: Is it a […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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