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One of these days I mean to plant some seeds—from a sunflower, a zucchini, a Chinese melon—with Charlie and follow the routines of watering and watching the skies and sun and looking for growth.
In Lake Elsinore, North Carolina, a vegetable garden is growing on the grounds of Canyon Lake Middle School. Adina Ross, who teaches […]
No, we don’t “got milk” here; my small family all got sick this week; we’ve always got hope.
Got Autism? (asks PETA)
PETA puts up a billboard in Newark NJ and takes it down.
Is That a Tattoo With……Your Mom’s Cell Number?
Of Safety Tats and other ways to keep a child safe.
McCarthy’s, Er, “Autism” Pole
Jenny […]
The summer swimming season in New Jersey is pretty much confined to a few months; while the water is warm now, there’s no lifeguards in the fall. To be amid a lot, a lot of water, nothing like an aquarium; Charlie’s enjoyed a couple of visit to the New Jersey State Aquarium and notices more […]
Hoodies banned at some NJ schools, the September 12th NJ.com reported.
Fortunately, not Charlie’s school: What would one do without a soft blue hood to pull over one’s ears and head, whatever the weather? And now that it’s gotten fall crisp and cool, a hooded sweatshirt isn’t just fashion, it’s necessary, especially while waiting for the […]
Size 7 1/2.
That’s the size of bowling shoes I got for Charlie on Wednesday afternoon, when we go to a local bowling alley with a group of kids like Charlie and their families. I loosened the laces and pulled out the shoe’s tongue so Charlie could slide his feet in and as he did I […]
An article in today’s Morning News of northwest Arkansas describes a multi-sensory room for adults with “severe intellectual disabilities.” The room is equipped with a “clear plastic, 5-foot-tall column of illuminated bubbles, an aroma generator and a projector that throws a variety of soothing images on the wall,” along with a giant vibrating pillow, a […]
Kamila and Henry Markram of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have developed a theory that autism is caused by a “supercharged” brain, today’s Telegraph reports. The Markrams posit that autistic individuals—far from earlier notions that they were without emotions and the capacity to feel—-”‘perceive, feel and remember too much’” and very intensely:
Faced […]
Help needed for autistic children in Puerto Rico: Please contact Maria.
And a mother recently wrote about her 7-year-old daughter in a post on autism being underdiagnosed in girls and women:
i have a 7 year old daughter that i know is autistic. she has every sign. she is seeing therepists and has seen diff doctors since […]
On Saturday night, we took Charlie to see a student variety show at the college where I teach. I’ve taken Charlie to these shows before. We sit in the back—the auditorium’s not very large so every seat is good—and it’s a very relaxed and homey atmosphere. A lot of my students were in the production […]
Body ownership is the feeling that your body belongs to you and is there constantly; vision, and other sensory signals, contribute to it. A sense of body ownership is often disrupted, the September 2nd Science Daily notes, in “a range of different neurological, psychiatric and psychological conditions, such as after a stroke, in autism, epilepsy, […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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