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I’ve not been surprised that Charlie’s been calling for home and so uncertain about vacation, although it’s a very familiar vacation, in the same beach house that we’ve rented for a couple of years and at the same time of year, and with the same families renting houses on the same street. He likes his […]
Yes, I do think that the hypothetical “vaccine-autism” link distracts us from the key issues of education, services, and understanding about autism. Nonetheless, vaccines were the topic of some of last week’s top posts:
Musings on Camp and Independence
Should I be sending Charlie to camp?
The Dangers of DIY Doctoring
Doctors and patients at odds, and […]
This week my summer school class on Psychology and Literature read Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. On Thursday morning the students had a quiz in which they had to “diagnose” Christopher, the novel’s main character, with autism or Asperger Syndrome, based on the DSM criteria. We also talked about […]
Charlie can read some words and he’s not one for books. He’s been through a number of special-ed reading programs and has tried several software programs, with the former being a bit more successful for Charlie. He does not sit long when I open a book to read to him.
Tuesday after a very good swim […]
Very late on Monday, Charlie and I took a red eye flight back to New Jersey from San Francisco. He set his mouth, clutched my dad’s blue jacket to his chest and handed it back just as we got into the line for the security check. No crying or painful encounters with airport security personnel. […]
My Goldfish Ate My Cat offers a “turn the tables” story about a fish that yearns to “season and devour a feline.” That’s quite a conceit in and of itself—-further, the book’s author is 11 year old. As noted in C-Health, Alexandre Lynch has Asperger’s Syndrome. The book has already sold some 80 copies.
My son […]
We were walking down the West Side Highway in Manhattan on Saturday when Charlie started running and laughing. Jim and I saw that we were nearing the shed where you can take out a kayak into the Hudson River—-we had passed the shed back in April and met a retired longshoreman who’d noted how he […]
Roaming in the bookstore in a nearby university town, I lingered over the tables of new non-fiction and poetry; the neat stacks of new literary criticism, linguistics, and social science (and found one called Echolalias which was a highly, highly theoretical study of a very, very real phenomenon in our life); the sale books. I […]
It’s taken some years, a lot of flashcards, and a lot of pointing to words in books, train station signs, STOP signs, cartons of McDonald’s fries (although those golden arches look less and less like an M somtimes and more like four mega-large fries; guess I’ve passed too many orders into the back seat): Charlie […]
Embracing Autism: Connecting and Communicating with Children in the Autism Spectrum is a new book edited by Robert Parish, whose autistic son Jack is now a teenager. Parish has also made a number of DVDs about autism including Come Back Jack and ASD 101; he is one of many parents of autistic children whom I […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
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