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This is my position on the vaccine-autism issue, as written in Newsweek:
Chew believes that vaccines had nothing to do with her son’s condition and she worries that all the vaccine attention detracts from the more-urgent needs of people with autism, who require intensive behavioral interventions and social services—the kind of help her son has received.
That’s […]
Ever felt like you’ve been caught between a rock and a really hard place? And in particular (if you are a parent like me) trying to arrange and rearrange your finances to provide therapies for your autistic child?
Parents of autistic children in Wisconsin like Cindy Brimacombe have found themselves in such a situation in the […]
Today is the Ides of March, the 15th of March according to the Roman Calendar. On my own calendar, I had marked March 14th as the date of a meeting of the meeting of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) in Washington, D.C.. I had attended the November meeting; here is the testimony of some […]
Since last week—last Thursday to be precise, when the parents of Hannah Poling Dr. Jon Poling and Terry Poling, held a news conference with their lawyer, Cliff Shoemaker, close by—the autism community has been discussing and debating just what the government said in its concession and what it did not. A recent post by Kev […]
Do you always notice if there’s someone autistic in the room?
A few years ago, I would have answered “of course, yes, I can spot an autistic child a mile away” and many people I knew swore the same. More recently, I have become less and less sure. Certainly I do note young children who have […]
“It wasn’t like a switch being turned off….It was more like a dimmer switch being turned down.”
I’ve read this quote from Dr. Jon Poling, the father of Hannah Poling, in more than a few news stories and most recently in one today in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Dr. Poling uses the metaphor of a dimmer switch […]
If you can remember back to before Thursday when Hannah Poling’s parents had their news conference and before every other autism news headline seemed to blare (not entirely accurately) “Government concedes vaccines linked to girl’s autism,” a few other things were being talked about this week: Senator John McCain’s misguided statements about “evidence” linking vaccines […]
In the wake of the concession by the government in the case of a 9 year old girl whose underlying, rare mitochondrial disorder was “aggravated” by vaccines, CBS News has reposted an article that was originally published last June, Autism: Why The Debate Rages by investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson.
Attkisson offers seven reasons as to why—-as […]
Be wary of the headlines. (And please read this reader’s description of the actual front page of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.)
The government has not conceded that vaccines cause autism “even after a Georgia girl won federal compensation in a case arguing a vaccine led to her brain damage”: Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the U.S. […]
The New Jersey State Senate narrowly approved legislation on Monday that would make the state the third in the nation to grant employees the right to take paid leave to take care of a newborn or sick relative. The bills now goes to the Assembly and is expected to be approved on March 13; Governor […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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