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Back in July, a study on chelation as a treatment for autistic children was put on hold due to safety concerns. Now the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has called off the study, as reported in today’s Associated Press.
The statement says the agency decided the money would be better used testing other potential […]
Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin on the issues she intends to focus on should John McCain and her be elected in November, from Jonathan Martin’s blog on today’s Washington Examiner:
“John and I have worked out a plan, what I want to concentrate on and what he would like to kind of tap into me to […]
It’s possible (possible) that Sarah Palin was a bigger topic around here than the usual suspects (vaccines……). The Nation and Foreign Policy have listed some questions for her: What’s yours?
Questions about disability policy and legislation for supports, services, and research preferred.
About the Two Babies in the Palin Family
As the mother of a special needs […]
Raw chocolate, that is, as someone on Craigslist suggests as an autism treatment; someone else, the mother of two adopted autistic children, writes about a specific product on an autism board. Why raw chocolate? This site lists a few “health benefits”; apparently raw chocolate is an antioxidant and has an ORAC (Oxygen Radical […]
Seems a band called Elbow has won the Nationwide Mercury Prize—-a “staple of UK music accolade-giving since 1992“—-for its album The Seldom Seen Kid. Considering the attention devoted by some “autism activists” (Safe Minds etc.) to the belief that vaccines or something in vaccines, like the mercury-based preservative thimerosal, can be linked to autism, there […]
How to avoid being bankrupt by autism, is the topic of another NPR story on autism. We’ve skirted the bottom of our checking account on more than a few occasions; when we moved to the town my in-laws have been living in so Charlie could attend the autism program there in June of 2006, […]
“An Amerian medical guru.”
That’s how today’s Scotsman describes Raun Kaufman, the director of the Autism Treatment Centre of America. Raun Kaufman was cured of autism through the “Son-Rise” method, according to a book by his parents, BarryNeil Kaufman and Samahria Lyte Kaufman. The Scotsman quotes a number of autism experts who express something more […]
It’s late late Friday night (/early early Monday morning) as I’m writing this and feeling. I think we made it through another summer. Monday will be Charlie’s first day back to school, after an extra-long summer vacation: Due to school construction in our school district, summer vacation started extra early and is ending extra late. […]
A couple of weeks ago a friend sent me an ad on Craigslist for an HBOT chamber. The price for this presumably used piece of equipment was steep and I wondered how the family felt about having bought it, and why they were selling it. Had the child “recovered”? Or had the promised effects not […]
After a big day at the beach yesterday, it’s been a very quiet Labor Day around here, Charlie humming and hanging (and getting in some cello practice after a few weeks’ hiatus). My dad took some videos of Charlie swimming and we all watched those, and Charlie and Jim went on a bike ride past […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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