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My son’s toy preferences have always been straightforward and basic. Things made out of wood, with strong colors, minimal “special features,” certain textures, have all along been favored. Gizmos aren’t Charlie. While he’s been very glad to be in possession of two Leapsters (one beat up and not really working, the other still kind of […]
The West Side News reports on the benefits of hipportherapy for disabled children; a friend’s daughter started this sport some months ago and has been enjoying it:
….[hipportherapy’s] techniques involve more than just putting a child in saddle and walking him around a riding ring.
Participants ride forward, backwards, and sideways in an effort to strengthen […]
Teachers at Patterson Mill Middle/High School in Maryland are using a Wii to teach autistic students sports, today’s Baltimore Sun reports. The teachers were able to purchase the Nintendo device through a grant; the Wii’s been incorporated into the students’ daily schedule. And, I know someone who’s planning to teach autistic students to use […]
Autism gets mentioned for the first time in a presidential debate on October 15th; here’s more news:
After Many Years, A Diagnosis
Deborah Lipsky was in her 40s when she found out that has autism.
There Goes Another Autism Myth
While out riding his bike, Charlie hears another child crying and…….
Denis Leary Does a Michael Savage
I […]
Shortly after 9/11, Gary McKinnon—a “UFO-obsessed computer hacker”—allegedly hacked his way into 97 computers belonging to NASA, the Department of Defense and several branches of the US military. The European Court of Human Rights has cleared the way for McKinnon, who is British, to be extradited to the US where he would face eight charges […]
As we were leaving a subway station on Friday night in Manhattan, Jim paused for a moment, pointed to a dingy wall, and said “here’s the sign to the PATH.” On a pale green piece of paper
PATH
train
————>
was written in black marker, with the arrow pointing toward a staircase.
Someone had carefully placed four long strips of […]
It’s the question of the day at Gizmodo: Do you ever turn off your cell phone?
Myanswer is an immediate obviously of course never!. Being a mother/working mother of a special needs child, that slender metal and plastic device is a lifeline. Ok, I do turn the ringer to “silent” when I’m teaching but I really […]
Regardless of whether or not BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen has Asperger’s Syndrome as reported in the October 16th Business Week, this post about Cohen in Valleywag—according to which Asperger’s is “a sort of autism lite thought to be common among geeks” and a “mental condition”—might lead you to at least raise an eyebrow or sigh […]
Back in the summer, I noted that Charlie had discovered the wonders of YouTube, when he and I found that a number of the Barney videos he used to watch, ask to see a thousand times over, and get so upset and over-stimulated over that he’d knock his head on the floor when we turned […]
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 […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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