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We’re on the beach and I look up and see a small airplane pulling a banner that advertises a certain movie whose words have been under discussion here.
Kind of sums up much of the past two weeks.
A “Feral Child” Found in Florida? In 2005, a girl named Danielle was found amid the most literal squalor […]
19-year-old Erik Weber has graduated from Grossmont College with an associate’s degree and plans to attend Point Loma Nazarene University to get his bachelor’s degree, today’s Sign On San Diego reports. Weber was diagnosed with autism when he was 3 years old and was not really verbal until he was 8. His mother, Sandy Weber, […]
Charlie and I went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Saturday. We had a fabulous time, and that includes the anxious moments, which were expected. It was a brand new experience for Charlie—-the first time he has gone to an art museum and to one that is not a designated children’s museum—and, of course, […]
There’s a video out on the web now called Autism Yesterday, echoing the title of another video that appeared in 2006, Autism Every Day. The latter video by director Lauren Thierry strove to present “what it’s like” for families to live with a child for autism. The other video, “Autism Yesterday,” presents the message that […]
It’s taken some years, a lot of flashcards, and a lot of pointing to words in books, train station signs, STOP signs, cartons of McDonald’s fries (although those golden arches look less and less like an M somtimes and more like four mega-large fries; guess I’ve passed too many orders into the back seat): Charlie […]
To my office in Jersey City where he kept going down the hill towards a parking lot full of fascinating gravel—-a stop for gas and a 7up—-onto the IKEA store in Elizabeth where he carried one of those yellow bags as I put things into it—-back home where Charlie got mad at me for telling […]
Embracing Autism: Connecting and Communicating with Children in the Autism Spectrum is a new book edited by Robert Parish, whose autistic son Jack is now a teenager. Parish has also made a number of DVDs about autism including Come Back Jack and ASD 101; he is one of many parents of autistic children whom I […]
Neon-bright marquees and music (from B.B. King’s theater–Buckwheat Zydeco is playing) and tour buses driving up halfway onto 42nd street and Russian Spanish Korean Twi being spoken and the smell of the gyros and steam from the subway grates: That was what Charlie walked through, holding Jim’s arm and grinning, with my parents and me […]
I shouldn’t even have to say that. Period.
Someone did, on CBS’ Big Brother TV show: Adam Jasinski, who is the PR Manager for the United Autism Foundation (UNIAF). Here’s a video clip in which Jasinski talks about taking autistic children to a hair salon for kids with special needs “so the retards can get it […]
A “group of German researchers” has announced that they have “perfected the method for inducing autism.”
??!!!?!?!???
They have also, it is parenthetically noted, figured out how to “cure” autism (this study on reversing symptoms of autism and Fragile X is cited). Cure being a fighting word in discussions about autism, I’ll note that this “autism-inducing drug” […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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