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Today’s Concord Monitor profiles Kathleen Seidel, who maintains the Neurodiversity.com website and who recently quashed a subpoena delivered to her by vaccine litigation lawyer Clifford Shoemaker. According to the article (and these are my sentiments exactly):
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Almost everyone had something to say about Autism: The Musical which can still be seen on HBO’s website. I’m wondering when someone will make Autism: The Comedy—enough already about “the tragedy of autism”!
Drinking While Pregnant Linked to Autism
Dr Maggie Watts, vice chairman on alcohol for the Scottish Association of Alcohol and Drug Action Teams, suggests […]
Children who wander away and are not able to find their way home, and who cannot tell someone who they or their parents are. This is a fear of parents of autistic children: Last Wednesday, 13-year-old Celeste Robinson, who is autistic, was missing for some 13 hours from her home in East Texas, the Typer […]
The first thing to keep in mind is that “classification” is not the same thing as a diagnosis.
So writes Andrew Tirrell, a lawyer with the nonprofit organization Advocates for Children of New York, in City Room on the New York Times website (March 17). Tirrell took questions from parents and readers about the rights of […]
“I don’t understand why it has to be so adversarial…..”Why can’t they listen to these parents and get a clue that maybe they have some merit?”
So Melissa Van Hook, who has two boys on the autism spectrum, says about the Gilbert School District in today’s Arizona Republic. Van Hook and a former special education teacher, […]
On January 17th, former pathologist Karen McCarron was ruled guilty on all counts in the suffocation death of her 3-year-old daughter Katherine (”Katie”) in May of 2006. Today’s Peoria Journal-Star reports that McCarron will have to wait three more weeks before her sentencing, as her attorney, Marc Wolfe, has asked for an extension.
Wolfe said Tuesday […]
Back in December, a 14-year-old autistic girl from West Bloomfield (Michigan) accused her father of raping her repeatedly while her mother did not intervene; the girl does not speak and communicated about the alleged abuse via a keyboard at school, with an aide supporting her hand. Today, the Detroit Free Press reports, Oakland County prosecutors […]
Over a year ago on January 19, 2007, 16-year-old special education student, John Odgren, was charged with killing a 15-year-old classmate, James Alenson, by stabbing him in a restroom at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Massachusetts. The New England News reports that Odgren’s attorney, Jonathan Shapiro, sought to have Odgren’s murder charge thrown out today, […]
Whether or not a vaccine or something in a vaccine might be linked to autism is only one controversial topic in discussions about autism causation and treatment. Other controversial treatments include electroconvulsive treatment (ECT) and facilitated communication (FC). A recent comment about ECT notes that the current issue of Psychiatric Times contains a discussion of […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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