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I’m not talking about the ongoing threat to one’s waistline from eating crispy post-drenching-in hot-oil -puds, though that’s certainly a major problem. I’m talking about the ubiquity of those artery-clogging strips in many a restaurant (especially if it’s a “family” restaurant), packaged in huge bags filling a goodly portion of the freezer case and, of […]
A friend had asked both Jim and me to speak to his Tuesday night class, on religion in America. We had planned that Charlie and I would meet Jim somewhere near where the college where our friend is teaching—up in Bergen County, not far from the George Washington Bridge—and first have dinner at a diner, […]
The price of rice has skyrocketed, due to fears that an international shortage will affect the US. Given what the Chicago Tribune calls a “gluten-free diet frenzy—-and families of autistic children are “among the strongest advocates of gluten-free”—I guess this could be a bit of a problem…..
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So the American Academy of Pediatrics has met with leaders of advocacy groups, including Autism Speaks and the Autism Society of America, and also with “representatives of Defeat Autism Now! (a program of the Autism Research Institute) in an effort to facilitate communication between pediatricians, parents and researchers about the diagnosis and treatment of children […]
There was a time (mercifully brief) when Charlie would only eat chocolate chip cookies. This was back in the spring of 1999: We had just taken him (permanently, though we did not yet know it) out of daycare, where he was known to “carbo load” on biscuits, pancakes, and the like. We were living in […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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