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Autism Vox

May 24th, 2008

Art from a Pringles Can

13-year-old Nicolas Simms of Duluth, Minnesota, crafts tiny replicas of basketball players (Kobe Bryant, LeBron James) out of the foil from Pringles chips cans. Now that’s recycling (”green” art?). Wonder if he’s done J-Mac?
Tags: Art, asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, basketball, chips, disabilities blog, diy, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Parenting, pdd-nos, pringles, tin foil

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By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 3 comments

May 11th, 2008

The Perfect Gift for Mother’s Day

Hope you got the perfect gift for Mother’s Day—-Margaret Lenahan has. Her 16-year-old son, James, was diagnosed with autism around the time that he turned two; today, he is a junior in the Ryken program for special needs students at Xaverian High School in Brooklyn, and a member of the varsity B basketball team for […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 9 comments

February 24th, 2008

Bowling Together

We went bowling at Lucky Strike in Philadelphia this afternoon with our friend Hal. Charlie’s gone bowling twice before, and both times with those “bumpers” on the lanes, but not today. Jim stood behind him and helped Charlie put his fingers into the three holes and send away the ball, which promptly rolled into the […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 9 comments

February 7th, 2008

A Different Sense of Time

Something was up with the servers here yesterday (and might still be): I’ve been endlessly refreshing and reloading and thanking the tech guys who have been working and working at it. I know too well that sometimes things just take time.

This is the case with so much for Charlie. Sometimes there are days when every […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 5 comments

January 26th, 2008

J-Mac, the Book

“Four minutes of fame” came to teenager Jason McElwain when he scored 20 points in the final four minutes of a Greece Athena High School basketball game. That was almost two years ago—-a book by “J-Mac” and Daniel Paiser is out, The Game of My Life: a True Story of Struggle, Triumph and Growing […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 9 comments