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Is it safe to marry an engineer? asks Bioephemera in a post today.
Well…….I didn’t. My husband Jim is a cultural historian at a Jesuit university in New York City; he is completing a project on the longshoremen who worked on the piers of the New York/New Jersey waterfront—on the Irish waterfront. I never got too […]
“The important thing, experts say, is early, intense and individualized intervention”
notes an article today in the Traverse City Record-Eagle about the P.L.A.Y. Project, which provides in-home and center-based services for autistic children, and about the Autism Resource Network of Northwest Michigan. It’s a statement that would be hard to disagree with, and I have […]
“My son is aged five but I doubt he will ever have any answers as to why he is autistic,” writes a father from Coatbridge, UK, in a letter in The Herald (July 1st).
More than a few parents have noted to me that, as their child has gotten older, they have talked about autism with […]
How or why were the nine counties in California (San Diego, Sonoma, Orange, Sacramento, Marin) and in Oregon (Multnomah, Marion, Jackson, Lane) for the Generation Rescue “Cal-Oregon Unvaccinated Survey” chosen? (My California geography is not what it was—it’s been 17 years since I lived full-time in my native state—but a quick glance at where the […]
When you hear or read or in any way encounter the word “autism,” what is your first thought?
Mine (as you probably guessed) is first of all my son, Charlie. Having studied ancient Greek for the better part of my life, my second thought is the Greek word autos, aute, auto, which is the etymological root […]
How often do you observe your child in his or her classroom? What is the school’s attitude about your visiting? Are you told you can only observe for a set period of time? only during certain times of the year? Are you able to talk with your child’s teacher in advance of your visit about […]
Many of you will have heard of the Pediatrics study about how well mothers of autistic children cope with stress (and what timing for this study to come out just before Mother’s Day). Meg Manning, M.A., a Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student at the University of Massachusetts at Boston is doing research for her dissertation […]
Niksmom, who blogs at Maternal Instincts—Flying By the Seat of My Pants, has written a “Cry for Help.” Nike has multiple disabilities and exceptional needs including cerebral palsy and seizures and is on the autism spectrum; last week he was in the hospital for a respiratory infection and also a skin infection. His mom, whom […]
From Ask MetaFilter via HealthBolt:
I’ve been “mentoring” a kid with Asperger’s Syndrome for years. He’s about to graduate from High School and he needs a Summer job. I need recommendations on how to make this as smooth as possible for him.
I’ve known this kid since he was 11, I fixed his first computer and gave […]
Since my son was diagnosed with autism eight years ago, a lot of new words have entered my vocabulary (neuropsychology, LRE, neurotoxin, VB)—-and since I started blogging almost two years ago (in June 2005), even more new terms have, too, and here are a few more:
blogosphere, vlog, dlog, plog, blaudience, blook, bleader, blauthor, bleg, splog, […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
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