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Yesterday’s Pathophilia reviews a group of studies (two by Mark and David Geier) about testosterone levels in autistic children. Pathophilia finds that testoterone is not increased in autistic children.
The Cambridge-based Autism Research Centre is also researching hormones in autistic individuals. The Foetal testosterone Longitudinal Study seeks to find out whether elevated levels of foetal testosterone […]
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” […]
A simile, as my students are quick to tell me, is when you’re comparing something to something else and you use “as” or “like.” It’s a comparison of something by way of mentioning something else, and the “‘as’ or ‘like’” makes it very clear what you’re up to.
“Simile” is the title of one of my […]
Here’s what readers have been saying in a very busy week in which we learned, or learned again, that the MMR vaccine does not cause autism:
Norah on whether the term “mild autism” is still in use and Larry on the “pop psychology typical of wired [magazine].”
Ongoing discussion about stem cell therapy as an autism treatment, […]
The first thing I have to say about being at BlogHer was that, because I didn’t have to keep looking for a boy at my back (not that I didn’t sometimes turn and scan the room for him; it’s a reflex)—-because I was on my own, I got a chance to look at some things […]
A couple of years while teaching this poem to an English Literature 101 class at a mid-sized university in New Jersey (it’s not where I teach now), I asked my class what “green” signifies. While we live in New Jersey, I grew up in California (think Berkeley not Los Angeles) and — having started to […]
I just got back from Commencement at the college where I teach. We don’t have the facilities to hold the event on campus and it’s held some distance away down the Garden State Parkway. I’ve been teaching at my college for three years now and have gotten to know some students fairly well: So exciting […]
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 […]
Classes started at the college where I teach last Wednesday, so I knew it would be a busy week. As the posts below suggest, the past week turned out to be far busier, and intenser, and more emotionally wrenching, than I had bargained for.
Wishing the family of Katie McCarron much peace: Katie will be remembered.
Autism […]
Says Matthew Belmonte, a neuroscientist and assistant professor in the Department of Human Development at Cornell University, about Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay, a severely and minimally verbal autistic young man originally from India and now living in Austin, Texas, and the author of two books, The Mind Tree: A Miraculous Child Breaks the Silence of Autism […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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