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Tomorrow, August 7th, from 11 am to 3 pm EST, there will be a meeting of the Meeting of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Autism Strategic Plan Implementation Workgroup. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss budgetary requirements for the IACC Strategic Plan for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Research; workgroup findings will […]
Some aspects of autism do run in families, according to a new study about how parents of autistic children process facial expressions. As noted in today’s Science Daily, neuroscientist Ralph Adolphs of the California Institute of Technology and psychiatrist Joe Piven at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill studied 42 parents of autistic […]
“College is a stupid idea” opines today’s Jezebel; over at The Atlantic, Professor X, a self-described part-time (evenings) adjunct instructor of English at “colleges of last resort,” says:
For many of my students, college was not a goal they spent years preparing for, but a place they landed in. Those I teach don’t come up in […]
Today, April 21st, from 11 am to 6 pm EST, there will be a meeting of the Strategic Planning Workgroup formed by the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC). You can “attend” the workgroup meeting through a conference call phone number and a web presentation tool on the Internet.
Click this link to join the Webinar:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/630812808/106536587
Webinar […]
The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) coordinates efforts to research, educate, and screen for autism with the Department of Health and Human Services (go here for more information on the IACC).
On Monday, April 21st from 11 am to 6 pm EST, there will be a meeting of the Strategic Planning Workgroup formed by the […]
Three and possibly four autistic children with different mothers have all been liked to the same sperm donor, “Donor X.” CNN.com interviewed one of the mothers, Gwenyth Jackaway, whose 5 1/2 year old son Dylan is autistic. Jackaway is single and had always wanted to have a child, so she contacted contacted California Cryobank, […]
After their now-7-year-old son Ryan was diagnosed with autism 5 years ago, Lorri and Dan Unumb “they sold their house, downsized and sacrificed to cover costs,” an April 1st CNN story reports. Intensive behavior therapy for Ryan costs between $70,000 and $80,000 a year which is lawyer and law professor Lorri Unumb’s “entire salary.” The […]
The April 1st CNN Money.com reviews the “recent brouhaha about 9-year-old Hannah Poling,” whose family received a settlement under the federal government’s Vaccine Injury Compensation Program “based on their claim that childhood vaccinations aggravated a rare metabolic disorder in Hannah, triggering autism symptoms.” Writer David Stipp notes that, in a 2006 survey, 54% of families […]
It’s April 1st and the start of “Autism Awareness Month”: There’ll be plenty in the news about autism and also appeals to support research—and what kind of research, in particular?
Last year (FY 2007), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) devoted $127 million to research autism spectrum disorders through “grants, contracts, research projects conducted as […]
Are animals autistic savants? ask researchers Giorgio Vallortigara et al. in the February 19th PLoS Biology. Yes, indeed says Temple Grandin in her 2005 book, Animals in Translation: Animals and autistic savants—who have extraordinary skills in certain areas, and especially in mathematics, music and drawing—both have “extreme cognitive skills” and also “think in detail” […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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