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This was going to be yet another post about “Michael Savage’s savagery” with a nice elliptical reference to the Beats and Allen “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked” Ginsburg and the denial of disability with examination of Savage’s reference to a severely disabled sibling who died in […]
When Charlie was starting to randomly imitate sounds on his own, the soundtrack of our lives started to get taken over by assorted rhythmic patterns of grinding grunts, beeps, and hums of all sorts and tones. After some careful listening to everything in the house, we realized that the sources for two of his main […]
As the July 28th American Medical News notes, Vaccine-autism link unsupported by science, but theory lives on. Victoria Stagg Elliott reports on the Autism One conference that was held last May in Chicago; not only were many of the conference sessions about immunization issues, but, even when these were not the main focus, “the […]
Katherine McCarron would have been six years old today. Wishing her a very happy birthday and and best wishes to her family.
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So I finally got around to reading Michael Savage on the Autism Controversy after grading papers, going swimming with Charlie and explaining to the water aerobics teacher why the boombox was contributing to him looking mighty distressed and since the class was over maybe it could be turned off?, making Charlie’s lunch, overseeing him practice […]
Now we’ve got the New York Times weighing in on radio host Michael Savage’s savage language about “bratty” autistic kids. As About.com notes, Savage is “successfully sucking time, money and energy” from the autism community (and sucking in ratings, I would think). All I can say again is, ’nuff said!
And, we have found the actual […]
9-year-old David Militello, who has Asperger Sydnrome, has sung the “Star-Spangled Banner” at NBA games and before a Martin Luther King, Jr., rally in Atlanta; he also sang “Ben” on America’s Got Talent. On Sunday, 18-year-old Jessica Summers—who has autism and who, doctors said, would never speak—sang the national anthem to open the Cal Ripken […]
So the BBC news reports that I, parent of an autistic child, am an “infection risk,” from a study in the July 1st Brain, Behavior and Immunity on Parental caregivers of children with developmental disabilities mount a poor antibody response to pneumococcal vaccination.”
(Does that mean autism parents are parasites?)
30 parents of children with developmental disabilities […]
The first thing I have to say about being at BlogHer was that, because I didn’t have to keep looking for a boy at my back (not that I didn’t sometimes turn and scan the room for him; it’s a reflex)—-because I was on my own, I got a chance to look at some things […]
As a parent, when I see the phrase “nature-nurture,” I get a bit stuck on the “nurture” word, as any suggestion that we didn’t provide the right emotional, social, and so forth “environment” for Charlie and did not provide enough “nurture” can lead a parent to think of the discredited “refrigerator mother” theory of autism. […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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