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Are disability dolls a “blessing or a sick joke“?, the June 25th Times (UK) asks. There are dolls with prosthetic devices, dolls with Down Syndrome, and Chemo Friends for kids with cancer (and back in 1997, Mattel came out with Share a Smile Becky, in a wheelchair). My Autism Dolls makes ragdolls from puzzle piece […]
Composer Allen Shawn writes about a birthday meal for his 59-year-old twin sister, Mary, who has lived in an institution for the mentally retarded in Maryland since she was 8 year old, in last Sunday’s New York Times magazine. For years and years, the meal has been the same—”chicken salad, tomatoes, rolls with butter, iced […]
My brother deserves better is the title of a June 21st article in the New Zealand Herald about 24 year old 24 Jonathan Eady. The article is a real call for change: Jonathan lives in a residence with high-wire mesh gates, a bare interior with pinewood walls, and a bedroom with only a mattress. He’s […]
Two brothers, Jack and James Collier of Gastonia, North Carolina, created Aces for Autism, a week-long tennis clinic for autistic children. They came up with the idea in honor of their 12-year-old sister, Oliver. From the Gaston Gazette:
“There aren’t really a whole lot of sports opportunities for kids with autism,” said James, 15. “Olivia loves […]
Yesterday I noted two musicals about autism—-here’s two more movies with autistic characters. Today’s New York Times has a round-up of 15 films in the 13th annual Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2008 series. One is a documentary by Sandrine Bonnaire about her autistic sister, Her Name is Sabine / Elle s’appelle Sabine:
…..throughout her acting career, […]
Today’s Man is a new documentary about 28-year-old Nicky Gottlieb, who has Asperger’s syndrome; the film was made by his sister, New York director Lizzie Gottlieb. You can go here and watch a short preview of the film, in which Nicky Gottlieb’s parents, Robert Gottlieb (who was Editor in Chief of Simon and Schuster, Knopf, […]
UW launches study to treat infants without symptoms, reports the January 2nd Seattle Post-Intelligencer in an article by Paul Nyhan:
The University of Washington launched one of the nation’s first studies on preventing autism in infants Wednesday and will spend the next four years exploring the benefit of intensive and early therapy on the mysterious disorder.
The […]
Charlie is an only child so reports about siblings of autistic children—like that by novelist Karen Olsson about a young woman named Tarah Perry in the February New York Times Magazine, and in the December 24th Time magazine—lead me mostly to speculate. Charlie does have a number of cousins on my side of the family […]
We’re here at my parents’ house in northern California and Charlie has been looking for the DVDs of children’s TV shows—-the Wiggles in particular—-that he once watched here. My mom and dad are taking him to Target and wanted to get him something “for older kids too.” I suggested the first Harry Potter movie: Harry […]
A Sister’s Dream: 10-Year-Old Raises Thousands for Autism Research: An Experimental Treatment Helped Her Brother And Inspired Michala Riggle was an autism news headline yesterday. Riggle, who lives in Kentucky, raised the money by making and selling bracelets. The Riggles note that, after the “experimental” treatments, their son Evan was able to dress himself; one […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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