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What do you do when your income is less than the cost of therapy for your autistic child? That’s the situation facing Dan and Sharon Springer, the parents of 8-year-old Joy Springer, in Nevada. According to KRNV today, Joy’s family also faces the loss of $1000 from Acumen, a state-funded program, due to a state […]
Retired Fort Myers physician John R. Agnew goes a step beyond the argument attributing the increase in autism to better diagnosis and awareness in today’s News-Press—–it’s also due to families increasingly seeking “government money.” Writes Agnew, “Once the government gets involved, money follows, along with rules and some bureaucratic thinking.” He does not specify what […]
TonerforAutism was created by Joel Pearlman and Rob Dube and hopes to donate at least $1,000,000 by contributing 5% of every sale to organizations that support autism related research and issues. There’s certainly no shortage of ink to be spilled when autism’s under discussion.
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The average mother of a child under 15 spends more on fast food per year than on books, music, movies, and video games combined, the June 2nd New York Times reports. Ok, ok, we’re in this demographic (keeping in mind that Charlie plays and wants zero video games).
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It used to be a running joke between Jim and me that, since I was expecting Charlie, we’ve seen a total of two movies in a theater together (this and this, so you can get an idea of when we last went). With the price of a movie date running upwards of $30, am thinking […]
Seattle Post-Intelligencer report Paul Nyhan writes about Teachtown software as a “high-tech way to lower the cost of autism.” Parents in Seattle report that they spend “$30,000, $40,000 and $50,000 a year on applied behavior analysis because few health insurance plans cover the costly treatment”; a subscription to Teachtown is $40/month. While the software’s founders […]
On Sunday I wrote about hope starting with acceptance and asked:
Does one strive to do everything one can to cure, heal, recover a child from autism with the goal of the child “losing“her or his diagnosis? Or, does one learn to accept that one’s child is different, disabled, autistic?
In Sunday’s Wall Street Journal, Jeff D. […]
The April 14th St. Louis Post-Dispatch makes a case for the need for insurance coverage for autism treatment. SB 1122 would allow for insurance coverage “for the treatment of autism under certain conditions”: Autistic children who are “less than 16 years of age” would qualify for up to $50,000 per year of behavior therapy. […]
It’s April, it’s Autism Awareness Month, and last week saw the inaugural World Autism Day on April 2nd, and there were a whole lot of autism stories in the news——and there’s still three more weeks to go.
This April has some added significance for me: It’s Charlie’s last month of being 10 years old as his […]
The April issue of Pediatrics contains a new study on the household finances of families with autistic children. Families’ annual income falls short of average predicted income by as much as $6200; families also spend thousands of dollars on health care and educational and other therapies and services. Economist Guillermo Montes, Ph.D., the lead author […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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