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Thinking about long-term housing and job needs for my son and also the matter of a special needs trust and a will and one has those moments of thinking (yes, ridiculously), pity one can’t live forever……..
Maybe you’d rather not know this, but you can take a Vitality Compass quiz over at Blue Zones to find […]
Charlie is in his last year of elementary school and will be moving onto middle school in a few months. A survey for the Fifth Grade Yearbook came home in his backpack with a list of questions and a request for a kindergarten photo. I’ve been looking through old computer files for a photo of […]
What better way to start the new year than making your voice heard to the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) about research priorities for the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee Strategic Plan for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)?
You can contact the NIMH with your suggestions in response to a Request for Information (RFI): Research Priorities for […]
Ruth Kieffer, whose 21-year-old son has Asperger Syndrome, writes about his difficulties finding long-term employment in a letter in today’s Appleton Post-Crescent:
After many, many job applications, there were two places that seemed eager to hire him — until someone in higher management positions decided they didn’t want to hire someone with an autism disorder.
Do they […]
Acceptance is the most important quality that a parent of an autistic child needs to have, according to Bryna Siegel, director of UCSF’s autism clinic at the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. Suzanne Leigh, the reporter who wrote the August 19th San Francisco Chronicle of Siegel, notes her surprise at this:
…… I ask her […]
Says Tufts University philosophy professor Daniel Denett:
Words are “like sheepdogs herding ideas”
Prof. Dennett is quoted in the August 21st New York Times in regard to the “science of magic.” In noting the role of words on the brain Prof. Denett notes that “Learn a bit of wine speak — “ripe black plums with an […]
The University of California at Davis M.I.N.D. Institute is conducting a study into the origins of autism by having expecting mothers of one autistic child monitor their diet, as well as “anything else that may get into” their bodies, from make-up to chemicals. The August 8th KCRA News notes that even the carpeting in participating […]
You can “determine your Asperger’s quotient” by taking this 50 question online multiple-choice test. (The test is, of course, no substitute for an actual diagnosis by a trained professional.) Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge notes that
The most interesting thing about Asperger’s syndrome is that its “discoverer” decided he had it and named it after himself, […]
20 hours is how long I’ll be away from home today, this Friday the 27th of July. I’m attending the 2007 BlogHer conference in Chicago; I was invited to participate in a focus group at the kindly invitation of Revolution Health.
Yes, I am not staying overnight in Chicago—-I’m taking a 5.30am train to […]
Mrs., or Mr., Presidential Candidate, my son has autism and I would like to know how you might make the world a better place for autistic children and for autistic adults. In the 1960s, autism was considered a rare disorder; today, the prevalence rate for autism is now 1 in 150 among children in the […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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