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It’s about three weeks till Charlie goes back to school. He’s (as often noted here) looking forward to it, as he knows that a good classroom with well-trained teachers and therapists awaits him. But what if you don’t have a school for your child to attend—-that’s the situation facing some autistic children in Tucson: KVOA […]
Tomorrow, August 7th, from 11 am to 3 pm EST, there will be a meeting of the Meeting of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Autism Strategic Plan Implementation Workgroup. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss budgetary requirements for the IACC Strategic Plan for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Research; workgroup findings will […]
Two comments by officials in two Utah insurance companies suggest how much is still not known about autism. From today’s Salt Lake Tribune:
“Is it even a defined disease? It’s a heart-breaking condition, but they don’t know the etiology, they don’t know the source,” said SelectHealth’s Medical Director Ken Schaechar. Autism is one of five pervasive […]
Today, April 21st, from 11 am to 6 pm EST, there will be a meeting of the Strategic Planning Workgroup formed by the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC). You can “attend” the workgroup meeting through a conference call phone number and a web presentation tool on the Internet.
Click this link to join the Webinar:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/630812808/106536587
Webinar […]
The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) coordinates efforts to research, educate, and screen for autism with the Department of Health and Human Services (go here for more information on the IACC).
On Monday, April 21st from 11 am to 6 pm EST, there will be a meeting of the Strategic Planning Workgroup formed by the […]
I grew up in California and almost all of my family still lives there, and Jim and I have talked very seriously about possibly moving out west when Charlie is an adult. My dad has lived in Oakland for all but a few years of his life and has long said exasperated things about the […]
The April 1st CNN Money.com reviews the “recent brouhaha about 9-year-old Hannah Poling,” whose family received a settlement under the federal government’s Vaccine Injury Compensation Program “based on their claim that childhood vaccinations aggravated a rare metabolic disorder in Hannah, triggering autism symptoms.” Writer David Stipp notes that, in a 2006 survey, 54% of families […]
It’s April 1st and the start of “Autism Awareness Month”: There’ll be plenty in the news about autism and also appeals to support research—and what kind of research, in particular?
Last year (FY 2007), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) devoted $127 million to research autism spectrum disorders through “grants, contracts, research projects conducted as […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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