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That’s how professional surfer Izzy Paskowitz describes Surfers Healing, the one-day surf camps for autistic children that he’s been holding for over a decade all over the US. Paskowitz’s own 17-year-old son, Isaiah, is autistic and there’s no place like the water for him. The Daily Yomiuri reports that families are starting to come from […]
Charlie and I found ourselves in the pool every day last week and he got in two rounds of bowling.
In today’s USNews and World Report, Nancy Shute reviews a number of recent studies on genetics, including the study published this week in Science. She also discusses why a clinical trial of chelation could provide parents […]
Friends had invited us to a pool party on Saturday afternoon. Jim had been asked to speak at a workshop here so I looked up directions on Google Maps, wrote them down, and off Charlie and I went—-only to spend an hour and 15 minutes driving in circles on both sides of a state road. […]
Could it be something in the water? The answer might seem “yes” if all you read is the headline of an article in today’s Scotsman:
Study reveals water’s role in rare autism
The water in question is not the wet stuff in oceans, lakes or rivers or in pools (where we’re shortly headed to—I told you Charlie […]
I’ve started teaching summer school, in a special program for local high school students and a course on translating Virgil’s Eclogues. The Eclogues are pastoral poems about shepherds and poetry and…….ok, that’s a bit too far from the usual discussion on this blog. The other class is on Psychology and Literature and, as of today, […]
On Tuesday night Charlie faked needing help. On Wednesday afternoon, he helped himself.
We went bowling with our little “special needs bowling league.” We ended up sharing a lane with a boy same age as Charlie, with an older and younger sister—both of whom were easily assisting their brother. They brought over a metal contraption with […]
Keith Kennedy was found last Sunday night. Another story of an autistic individual wandering, and into water: A 4-year-old boy, Derek Casanova-Gonzalez, was found unconscious in an outdoor fountain in Clayton, North Carolina, and is now in the hospital. The News-Observer reports that his parents were cleaning a nearby early childhood center and realized […]
Something tells me that Charlie would find this cephalopod shaped sink mesmerizing. It also bears more than a little resemblance to the spiral water slide at the pool, and reminds me of what draws Sue Rubin to look at the water running from the faucet in the film Autism Is a World. Water is best.
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Kendall Bailey is 19 years old, 6 foot 6, and a champion swimmer headed for the Paralympics in Beijing this September—–but he was almost rendered ineligible by the United States itself. Bailey has cerebral palsy, mental retardation, autism, and Klinefelter’s syndrome, which prevents his body from producing testosterone. Today’s New York Times profiles his dream […]
Thanks very much to everyone for watching the Good Morning America piece on Controversial New Movement: Autistic and Proud—-Activists Say Stop Looking For a Cure and Accept People As They Are, and for everyone who’s commented here—a lot to think about, and then all the commentary on the ABC news story. Some more commentary ’round […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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