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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 […]
The Truth About Autism is the name of an op-ed in today’s San Francisco Chronicle by pediatrician Rahul K. Parikh: He suggests that the truth is that a link between vaccines and autism has been “soundly disproved,” yet parents seek out what might be referred to as their own truth, in doing their own research […]
Thomas the Tank Engine toys recalled due to lead paint.
It is not unknown that more than a few autistic children are very interested in trains and toy trainsets, and, too, in Thomas. As Charlotte Moore wrote on p. 177 of George and Sam of Thomas’ creator: “An admiration for the works of the Reverend W. […]
That’s how many pieces the online jigsaw puzzle that Charlie did this afternoon had—48 is the most pieces he has done yet since he clicked with using the mouse back in March. Here is the puzzle—-a ferris wheel, the ride Charlie asks for first at summer carnivals.
Charlie did a 20 piece version […]
I’m not a NASCAR fan and so have not had much to say about this weekend’s Autism Speaks 400 NASCAR Nextel Cup race which has been postponed due to rain. When I think about autism and race cars, my thoughts turn to the 50 or so Hot Wheels many relatives and friends bought for Charlie […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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