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Could it be something in the water? The answer might seem “yes” if all you read is the headline of an article in today’s Scotsman:
Study reveals water’s role in rare autism
The water in question is not the wet stuff in oceans, lakes or rivers or in pools (where we’re shortly headed to—I told you Charlie […]
Here’s an alarm clock that doesn’t mess around, either reading AWAKE or SLEEP. According to its creator, the clock works on a 4-hour cycle; by following the directions, a user is supposed to be able to “enjoy the benefits of a 21-hour day”—-which is kind of how long of a day some parents of autistic […]
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 […]
I first heard about training dogs specially for autistic children years ago through a friend of a friend; since then, there have been frequent reports about “four-footed therapists.” An organization called 4 Paws for Ability has placed more than 200 service dogs with autistic children, today’s Star-Ledger (NJ). The parents of 7-year-old Will Polak are […]
Amanda “soon to appear in PSA’s for Every Child by Two” Peet vs. Jenny “Green Our Vaccines” McCarthy?
If the subject is vaccines.
Conversations with Paul Offit, M.D., who is chief of infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a frequent target of the ire of pro-vaccine safety/anti-vaccine-ists, led actress Peet to be “’shocked at […]
Not again: This past Tuesday, an 8-year-old autistic boy, Devin Slaney, was “misplaced” on a school bus that was to bring him home following his first day of summer school in Edmonds, Washington, HeraldNet reports. Said his mother, Rebecca Slaney: “‘I understand accidents happen. Buses get into accidents, but they cannot lose children.’”
Tags: asd, asperger, […]
I’ve started teaching summer school, in a special program for local high school students and a course on translating Virgil’s Eclogues. The Eclogues are pastoral poems about shepherds and poetry and…….ok, that’s a bit too far from the usual discussion on this blog. The other class is on Psychology and Literature and, as of today, […]
By analyzing the genes of 88 families from the Middle East, Turkey and Pakistan in which cousins married and had autistic children, researchers have found clues to the neural impairments associated with autism. While researchers found multiple genetic causes for autism in different individuals, a few inherited deletions that have been linked to autism stood […]
A new study in the July 2008 issue of Autism finds that acetaminophen use after measles-mumps-rubella vaccination was associated with autistic disorder:
The present study was performed to determine whether acetaminophen (paracetamol) use after the measles-mumps-rubella vaccination could be associated with autistic disorder. This case-control study used the results of an online parental survey conducted from […]
Dr. Antonio Hardan, the director of the autism clinic at Stanford’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, says this in a July 9th ABC Local (Bay Area) report about increases in autism diagnoses throughout the region:
“If you are diagnosed with autism you will get more services from the county from regional centers than if you just have […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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