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That’s how professional surfer Izzy Paskowitz describes Surfers Healing, the one-day surf camps for autistic children that he’s been holding for over a decade all over the US. Paskowitz’s own 17-year-old son, Isaiah, is autistic and there’s no place like the water for him. The Daily Yomiuri reports that families are starting to come from […]
A 12-year-old autistic boy, Ben Haslam will be without a school by the end of the week and could be taken into care—into custody—by the Local Education Authority (LEA) in Bedfordshire, UK. The Haslams tried to get Ben into one school; the LEA protested; the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SENDIST) ruled in […]
Today’s Scientific American reviews the new study about autism genes in 88 Middle Eastern families and emphasizes that the genes found are “linked to a heightened risk of autism” and, too, that these genes are crucial to a child’s ability to learn.” Noting that marrying second and third, and even first, cousins is not […]
If you’re interested in listening in on a meeting of the Strategic Plan Workgroup of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) under the Combating Autism Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-416), go to the end of this post.
For the past several months, insurance—as in having insurance companies pay for treatments for autistic children—-has been a regular […]
Autism not a problem for 12-year-old Muhammad Danial Zainuddin. Danial is autistic and was only able to “mumble a few words” when he started school at the age of 6—-at 12, he is a “straight A pupil and one of the creme-de-la-creme of his school.” He also won a Second Place in the the state […]
Not “a school for kids with autism,” but “a school that accepts kids with autism”—so Alison Moors, director of the Academy for Precision Learning says in an article in the June 27th Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Paul Nyhan. The school is just finishing its first year, with four teachers and five students. It was started by […]
I’ve been learning a lot from a recent discussion here about autism genetics. My own interest in the topic arises from what it reveals about how Charlie is linked to us, to our family. While neither Jim’s nor my family has had a child with an autism diagnosis prior to Charlie, we’ve both noted autistic […]
Said NBC’s chief medical editor, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, during a recent Today show segment on Missouri families seeking insurance coverage for autism treatments:
“The burden right now is on the parents and I think most Americans would say that’s not fair because the goal has to be intensive treatment early and get these kids into mainstream […]
9-year-old Gabriel Poirier died on April 18th after being wrapped by teachers in a weighted blanket. The June 19th Canada.com reports that a coroner has ruled that Gabriel died of suffocation—-news which his parents were shocked by, as the school (in St.-Jean-sur-Richelieu, south of Montreal) reported that he had died “‘naturally and calmly.’”
In the […]
Summer school, that is—-Charlie’s first day of Extended School Year is tomorrow. (Yes, we’re back in Jersey, courtesy of a red eye to Newark Airport.) His last day of the regular school year was last Thursday so he’s only had a few days off. From experience, this very brief break is the best thing for […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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