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“What would he like for Christmas?” “What can we can get him?” The relatives ask me these questions every year; every year I say, “I’ll get back to you.” “I’ll send an email.” But I already have a pretty clear idea of what Charlie will say when I ask him “what do you want?”.
Not […]
Speculation that the lead in children’s toys, and in particular toys from China (beware of Aqua Dots), is the cause of the “autism epidemic” appears in a letter in the November 11th Salt Lake Tribune.This connection might be especially hard to test—-can anyone keep track of all the toys one bought for one’s child, not […]
Kurt Thometz is a rare book dealer in New York and the father of 16-year-old Adam, who has autism. Thometz is profiled in the August 11th New York Times (subscription only) about his search for a home for his family of three and for his 400 cartons containing some 10,000 books. Jim Dwyer relates Thometz’s […]
Geek to Live: Take great notes
Lifehacker provides links to make your own notepaper—so you’ll be ready to take down every last detail next time you are at an autism conference…..
Hands-on with Pleo the dinobot
From Engadget (with a video of a dinobotic threesome): Your own dinosaur in a box will set you back some $$$$ […]
Mendel’s Garden#17, a blog carnival on genetics, is up at Science Roll: Autism Vox’s post Mutatis Mutandis: Genetic Mutations and Being at High Risk gets a very kind mention.
How To: Remove scratches from CDs and DVDs
Thanks to Lifehacker—–information I sure could have used when Charlie kept wanting to touch the tops and bottoms of all […]
Sunday night and I am: washing grapes for Charlie’s lunchbox—-emailing the students in my summer school course about their presentations on Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey (they decided that they want to make videos of 3 different scenes with accompanying PowerPoints and I have been given the task of editing the videos)—-folding laundry—-reminding myself to send […]
At Chicago’s O’Hare airport, security finds “something” in my bag and calls me over to go through the contents. “You muat have lotions or perfume,” says security. He pulls out a cardboard box in which is another box.
“Uh, maybe,” I say. I explain that the box in question was included in a “gift bag” with […]
Craegmoor Healthcare reports on a new study commissioned by The National Autistic Society (NAS) according to which it was found that watching the Thomas the Tank Train television show had a positive effect on autistic children. Moreover, as many as 99 percent of the children surveyed said that Thomas & Friends characters were their favorite […]
Once upon a time, when I sat down to read the newspaper, I just read it: Front page, arts, book reviews, world news, skip the sports.
Now I sit down in front of my laptop to read, and get up mid-story if I hear Charlie calling—-and, inevitably, much of what I read is through the lens […]
Now that Charlie is doing 48 piece online puzzles with a click of the mouse, I suppose it is time to work on using the keyboard. Here is an online Etch-A-Sketch: You can “draw” by using the arrow keys.
The occupational therapist at Charlie’s school noted that they have been teaching him to type with […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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