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Autism Vox

July 2nd, 2008

Not a Nice Thing to Say

Can you imagine having this said to you?
“One family I met took their child to the doctor and the doctor said: ‘If he was a dog you would put him down.’”
As quoted in the February 7 Campbelltown-McArthur Advertiser (Australia).
Tags: Animals, asd, asperger, australia, autism, autism blog, disabilities blog, disability, doctors, dogs, Family, family blog, Parenting, […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 24 comments

June 30th, 2008

A Loose Tooth, Language and Vaccines

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 […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 9 comments

April 11th, 2008

Wakefield on Medical Ethics and Children: “I’m perfectly willing to accept my understanding was wrong”

Today at a hearing before the General Medical Council, Dr. Andrew Wakefield—-the doctor who is at the center of the controversy over the MMR vaccine—admitted that he had what the BBC terms a “poor grasp of the medical ethics surrounding work on children.” Dr. Wakefield faces being struck off the medical register in regard to […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 9 comments