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Autism Vox

July 6th, 2008

Autism not a problem—fancy that

Autism not a problem for 12-year-old Muhammad Danial Zainuddin. Danial is autistic and was only able to “mumble a few words” when he started school at the age of 6—-at 12, he is a “straight A pupil and one of the creme-de-la-creme of his school.” He also won a Second Place in the the state […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 12 comments

June 27th, 2008

Children of the Stars: Autism in China

I’ve been learning a lot from a recent discussion here about autism genetics. My own interest in the topic arises from what it reveals about how Charlie is linked to us, to our family. While neither Jim’s nor my family has had a child with an autism diagnosis prior to Charlie, we’ve both noted autistic […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 15 comments

June 8th, 2008

So Goeth the Autism Epidemic

The autism epidemic commeth — or, more accurately, it goeth. The threat of such a terrible scourge—–lots of children with autism—is behind the calls for “safer vaccines” and “change the schedule!” by anti/pro-safe vaccine rallyers at Wednesday’s Green Our Vaccines (which acronyms nicely into GOV) rally. Get out those toxins, change that schedule, flush […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 15 comments

April 27th, 2008

Autism Numbers in Malaysia

The Star (Malaysia) notes that 1 in 625 Malaysian children is autistic, which would be a much lower prevalence rate than the 1 in 150 figure among children in the US. But some think otherwise:
If this were to be taken as a standard in Malaysia, there would be more than 3,000 new cases each year […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 5 comments