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This is the final paragraph of an article in the July 6th Scotland on Sunday about 20-year-old Dale Gardner, who was severely autistic as a child, and his mother, Nuala Gardner.
His mother is bursting with pride. When she first found out about Dale, part of her grieving process was to wonder if it would have […]
The driver of a minivan taking a 9-year-old autistic boy, Justin Colon, to summer camp got lost for four hours and failed to bring the child to his program. When Justin’s mother, Dawn Gorman, contacted the bus driver by cell phone, the driver was unable to say where he was and stopped answering the phone […]
My son Charlie is finishing up his best school year ever: Today, though bleary-eyed, he got out of bed on his own when I asked, pulled on his blue hooded sweatshirt, and shuffled out to meet the yellow school bus. It’s only a short ride as he attends a school in our town but once […]
Another story that has “you never can be too careful” written all over it.
School van driver Israel Santiago accused of raping 12-year-old autistic girl in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Tags: abuse, asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, brookline, bus, Crime, pdd-nos, rape
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School bus driver Danny Floyd of Moorpark (CA) was arrested on May 7th on the suspicion of molesting a 14-year-old autistic boy, the Ventura County Star reports. Floyd and the boy were paired through the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and have known each other since November; the molestation is alleged to have occurred […]
In yesterday’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer, journalist Paul Nyhan writes about parents as the “invisible casualties” when a child has autism. 4-year-old Sharky Munat’s mother, Lillie Addams, recalls when the police showed up because Sharky’s screams permeated the thin walls of their apartment. After her son was diagnosed with autism, Addams went through “depression, chest-seizing anxiety attacks, […]
The April issue of Pediatrics contains a new study on the household finances of families with autistic children. Families’ annual income falls short of average predicted income by as much as $6200; families also spend thousands of dollars on health care and educational and other therapies and services. Economist Guillermo Montes, Ph.D., the lead author […]
A few days ago I asked does your child know that he or she is autistic?—-and now, after Wednesday’s World Autism Day and April being Autism Awareness Month, here’s another question in the same vein:
Does your autistic child know that Wednesday was World Autism Day and that this whole month is Autism Awareness Month?
I don’t […]
Less than 13 percent of American children walk to school, a new study reports. Parents cited safety as a main reason, in the form of the “speed and volume of traffic students would encounter en route to school; the possibility of crime; and the weather.” A researcher from the University of Michigan noted that the […]
Today is the Ides of March, the 15th of March according to the Roman Calendar. On my own calendar, I had marked March 14th as the date of a meeting of the meeting of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) in Washington, D.C.. I had attended the November meeting; here is the testimony of some […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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