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Mirror neurons are a type of brain cell that seem to be involved in perceiving the intentions—the mental state—of another person. Mirror neurons are activated or “fire” both when we perform an action and also when we see that action being performed by someone else and it’s been hypothesized that there might be a dysfunction […]
A 3-year-old girl who has a “form of autism” was treated at a hospital and released after jumping out of her mother’s moving car. KY3 reports that:
The mother called 911 to report the girl jumped out of the moving car near the intersection of Farm Road 171 at Farm Road 66, south of Highway KK […]
Update, 9am, 1 July: Today’s Washington Post has a story about Peter Hotez, the president of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, the chair of George Washington University’s department of microbiology, immunology and tropical medicine, and a consultant to the Gates Foundation, which is helping to develop vaccines to fight neglected diseases; his 15-year-old daughter, Rachel, is […]
The June 29th Herald (Sharon, PA) describes a program that helps young autistic adults transition from high school to adulthood. The program is run by St. Anthony’s Point and St. Michael’s Harbour, Inc., Hermitage. After participating in it, 23-year-old Michael Mondak is working in the Community Library of the Shenango Valley and matriculating at the […]
The latest update of the Associated Press Stylebook says, no more using “mentally retarded” (”mentally disabled” is preferred). Notes Gawker:
Journo-nerds rejoice: the AP Stylebook has been updated! It’s the Bible of all that is considered acceptable in middle American newsrooms, and, like middle America itself, is consistently several years behind the times.
Make that at least […]
Late Sunday afternoon Charlie was hanging around the front door when I looked at him and saw that three of his left hand fingers were bloody, and then noticed a similar Hawaiian Punch-like stain on his left cheek and a little white wadded-up-paper-looking-thing in his right thumb and finger….
“You lost a tooth!” I said.
“Tooth!” said […]
I suppose it’s not surprising that the story of an autistic toddler and his mother being removed from an airplane got so much attention last week. Airplane is travel is neither so friendly nor so fun (or affordable) for anyone these days. The story of Jarret Farrell really home with me because, a couple of […]
Keith Kennedy was found last Sunday night. Another story of an autistic individual wandering, and into water: A 4-year-old boy, Derek Casanova-Gonzalez, was found unconscious in an outdoor fountain in Clayton, North Carolina, and is now in the hospital. The News-Observer reports that his parents were cleaning a nearby early childhood center and realized […]
The Naturals are Maurice Snell, Terry Bracey, Dan Massey and Craig Christiansen, a Chicago-area band. Snell and Bracey are autistic; Massey and Christiansen teach music. Christiansen co-founded the Creative Exchange Music Therapy program, which teaches music to children of different abilities. (I need to find a program like this around here—we recently found out that […]
Not that I’d get it, but I’m thinking Charlie might once have been entranced by this number scarf from the Little Factory. He learned 1-10 quickly and easily when he was 2 1/2 and had a certain fascination with 3 (he’d turn a letter E block backwards to make it look like 3) and, sometimes, […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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