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Charlie can read some words and he’s not one for books. He’s been through a number of special-ed reading programs and has tried several software programs, with the former being a bit more successful for Charlie. He does not sit long when I open a book to read to him.
Tuesday after a very good swim […]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer report Paul Nyhan writes about Teachtown software as a “high-tech way to lower the cost of autism.” Parents in Seattle report that they spend “$30,000, $40,000 and $50,000 a year on applied behavior analysis because few health insurance plans cover the costly treatment”; a subscription to Teachtown is $40/month. While the software’s founders […]
Researchers in the Department of Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science at the University of Missouri are using neurofeedback to “retrain” autistic children’s brains. Children play video games while sensors are attached to their scalps; they are “rewarded” with movements on the screens and special sounds for concentrating and focusing. From the April 23rd Science Daily:
If […]
The root of dyslexia is different in speakers of Chinese than it is in speakers of English, according to a new study in the April 7th Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dyslexia is a learning disability; children with dyslexia have trouble learning to read. Scientists at the University of Hong Kong have found […]
In determining what causes autism, you would think that scientific evidence would have the final say. Just in the past year, there has been more and more evidence refuting a link between thimerosal and rising autism rates, and more and more studies pointing to a complex web of genetic factors in autism. And yet, again […]
It’s taken some years, a lot of flashcards, and a lot of pointing to words in books, train station signs, STOP signs, cartons of McDonald’s fries (although those golden arches look less and less like an M somtimes and more like four mega-large fries; guess I’ve passed too many orders into the back seat): Charlie […]
The countdown has begun: My son Charlie is in his last two months of being ten years old. A tall boy with big feet and able to reach an octave on the piano merely by opening his hand wide, and not really able to read.
When he was three, we started to teach Charlie the alphabet. […]
Charlie has his second cello lesson today and, now that I have a sense of what’s involved, I’ve begun to put together a music book for him. The school music teacher loaned me the book the students use. A single page is crammed with lines of music, complete with bass clef and rests, and […]
“You can’t judge a book by its cover,” or so the saying goes, but I have to make an exception in the case of my son Charlie. Ours is a household of many books—-on American history and culture and religion (these are the subjects my husband Jim teaches); on the ancient Greeks and Romans, literature, poetry […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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