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Autism Vox

September 24th, 2008

Confessions of a Former Warrior Mom

So with Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds, Jenny McCarthy’s new autism book out, I decided I need to fess up.
I am a retired Warrior Mom.
“Warrior Mom” is the term that Jim used to use when I got into a certain “those administrators haven’t heard the last of us” “did […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 20 comments

May 2nd, 2008

IEP Prep and More on Disclosure

What gets “disclosed” and what does not was the issue at the center of the recently released document concerning Hannah Poling. I have “disclosure” and “transparency” of a slightly different sort on my mind right now. Charlie’s IEP meeting is today and, amid reading over documents and evaluations and forms, reading up on IDEA at […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 10 comments

April 4th, 2008

Does Your Child Know That It’s Autism Awareness Month?

A few days ago I asked does your child know that he or she is autistic?—-and now, after Wednesday’s World Autism Day and April being Autism Awareness Month, here’s another question in the same vein:
Does your autistic child know that Wednesday was World Autism Day and that this whole month is Autism Awareness Month?
I don’t […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 13 comments

March 1st, 2008

Money Sure Doesn’t Grow on Trees

Financial struggles plague families of children with autism, according to a study by Deanna Sharpe, associate professor of personal financial planning in the University of Missouri’s College of Human Environmental Sciences and the mother of an autistic son. Science Daily quotes Sharpe, who says
“It is important for us to hear the voices of […]

By Kristina Chew, PhD -- 12 comments