Last Week’s Top Posts
The highpoint of the week for us was Thursday night’s reading in conjunction with the Artistic Spectrum exhibit—–and Charlie also had a lot of things to say himself.
- Did Your Child Reach Her or His Gross Motor Milestones?
Some parents note that their children had gross motor delays (Charlie did), while others said their child did not. Indeed, some parents whose children met all their gross and fine motor milestones then had other delays in social and communicative skills. - About This “Autism Dilemma”
According to health journalist Alison Rose Levy, there is an “autism dilemma” afoot, in which parents of autistic children speak emotionally and from the heart about what they think (a vaccine, for instance) “caused” their child to become autistic, while “aloof doctors” listen and respond with well-reasoned appeals to the evidence of science. - 2 Hypotheses: Autism Epidemic and Diagnostic Substitution
Is the increase in the number of autism diagnoses (especially in children) due to some external factor or agent; to, for instance, something in the environment—-in the physical world—that has changed? Or, is the increase due to a kind of internal change in us, in how we think about and understand and perceive the world? - Physicians, Vaccines, and Autism
Physicians, that is, were aware of claims about a vaccine-autism link when such first came out in 1998; there was indeed a “noticeable drop in reported use of the vaccine in 2000.” Afterwards, once reports of a claim were refuted (by a report from the Institute of Medicine, among others), doctors again defended the value of immunizations. - Dyslexia is Different in Chinese and in English speakers
Scientists at the University of Hong Kong have found that the cause of a child’s dyslexia depends on what language they are trying to learn. - Excluded
Parents of eight autistic children in Lakewood, Colorado, are objecting to where a classroom for children has been located—in a portable classroom outside the main school, a story in the April 9th 9news reports. - Share and Share Alike
Charlie offers me a California roll. - The Cause of It All
Because of Charlie, I find myself reading at the JCC’s “Artistic Spectrum Lif Café”; meeting many new faces; and riding the subway with Cliff Schumacher. Great times! - The “Subpopulation” of Mitochondrial Autism
How prevalent are mitochondrial conditions among autistic children? - A Conversation
Charlie tells me where he wants to go, and why.
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