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Parents don’t cause autism and neither do vaccines.
Further: More and more evidence is being found that rejects the hypothesis that there is a link between autism and mercury; more and more evidence is also being found that rejects the hypothesis that there is a link between autism and the MMR vaccine.
Nonetheless: Proponents of the hypothesis […]
Charlie takes the Alternate Proficiency Assessment (APA). He was first tested when he was in the fourth grade, in the subject areas of Language Arts Literacy, Mathematics, and Science; this year, he’ll only be tested in Language Arts Literacy and Mathematics. His teachers have to attend special training sessions to administer the test. Florida is […]
March was the first month in the calendar of the ancient Romans and it makes sense to me that the Romans, originally an agricultural people, would being the year in the spring, when new things are growing and there’s all that new energy of new green things. As it’s February 2nd (”Groundhog Day” here in […]
Texas-based Tempest Tours is offering a “special tour for guests with autism. Tempest Tours’ president and founder Martin Lisius has a 9-year-old daughter, Maddy, who has autism. Says Lisius:
“We created this expedition after receiving contacts from parents of children with autism who were curious about our tours…….Maddy is beautiful and bright. She and all ASD […]
There were snowflakes falling fast outside my office window at 1.30pm so I packed up some student’s papers and books and hurried out the door: There’s at least one bridge and a couple of highways between where I work and where we live and a little snow can change people’s driving habits, and Charlie’s 3.15pm […]
There were no celebrity autism mother TV appearances last week and things were somewhat “normal” (a rather loaded word here, as regards autism and disability: what is “normal”……), though sobering.
Worry, WorryA 11-year-old boy is bullied as he gets off the schoolbus—and the attackers videotape it.
Autism and Genetics and the EnvironmentOn the age-old question of […]
Change the magnification—the perspective (just as, when autism became part of our lives, it seemed that the world was turned upside down) —and you can see something really different. Like this:
Snow under a microscope.
As Joey’s Mom puts it, We are all unique like every snowflake, and all the more when they are up close and […]
Using magnetoencephalography (MEG) brain imaging technology to measure brain electrical activity, Tony Wilson, Ph.D., has found that connections between brain cells are “deficient” between single regions of the brain in autistic children. It has been previously believed that such connections different between the regio ns of the brain in autistic persons. As reported in the […]
“Swim ocean.” Said Charlie very intently after breakfast.
Saturday was like this here at the beach. Today—-and ever since Sunday morning—it has been rain, gray sky, cool, windy: Stormy weather. Not exactly beach weather, if your thing is sitting on the sand and working on your tan, building sandcastles and tapping a foot in the wave. […]
There was no hot water in the shower at the YMCA so Charlie waited till we got home. He has been liking to shower long and leisuredly and has been taking an interest in the soap and in soaping himself (you never know when a “life skill” might emerge………). On a day of 90-degree-plus heat […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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