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Carie Tenzel’s son, Chaz Tenzel-Walser, is 15 years old. When he was diagnosed with autism, the doctor told her that he would never graduate from high school and would “most likely need special care for the rest of his life,” the April 5th TimesDaily.com (Alabama) reports. Now Chaz is doing this:
He’s attended mainstream classes since […]
Confronting ‘that autism thing’ is the name of an NPR story about how a family, the Browns, learned that their son Gibson has autism. As a baby, Gibson came home with on oxygen pump and a feeding pump; he didn’t point or say “mommy” and “daddy” or wave when he was a year old; the […]
Autism may be “triggered” by a mother drinking alcohol during pregnancy, today’s Times notes. This topic has come up before: Back in November, it was reported that moderate drinking during pregnancy could be “the hidden cause” of autism, attention deficity hyperactive disorder (ADHD), and other neurodevelopmental disorders in children.
It’s not the cause for Charlie having […]
Yesterday, a reader left a comment on the post It’s Not the Vaccines in which she noted (1) she is pregnant and (2) her husband has a “12 year old daughter from a previous marriage who has severe autism and mental retardation. When she was about 18 months old, she had the MMR and that […]
Infoture, a Boulder-based company, has created the LENA (for “language environment analysis”) which is (reports the February 24th New York Times magazine) means to be a kind of “verbal thermometer” to help parents better gauge how baby’s language skills are developing.
A voice recorder tucked into a child’s clothing records all the sounds in the environment. […]
Researchers from the University of Washington’s Autism Center have found that autistic children have normal-sized heads at birth, and then have accelerated head growth when they are between six and nine months of age, “a period that precedes the onset of many behaviors that enable physicians to diagnose the developmental disorder,” today’s Science Daily reports. […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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