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A Difficult Youth Is A Good Thing for a Fisher——um, a fish, according to a study about the Bluehead Wrasse reported about in Science Daily back in February:
[Scientists] discovered that fish larvae that survive a long, rough, offshore journey eventually arrive at a near shore reef in good condition, and that they thrive afterwards.In contrast, […]
Do I even need to say that?—-after all, it’s no longer the days of the refrigerator mother theory of autism popularized by self-styled early child development expert Bruno Bettelhaim. But then one encounters this headline:
Autism Caused by Uninformed Parents
in the National Expositor, which is not directly blaming bad parents for causing autism. It’s blaming parents […]
Neon-bright marquees and music (from B.B. King’s theater–Buckwheat Zydeco is playing) and tour buses driving up halfway onto 42nd street and Russian Spanish Korean Twi being spoken and the smell of the gyros and steam from the subway grates: That was what Charlie walked through, holding Jim’s arm and grinning, with my parents and me […]
11 children in the San Diego area have now been diagnosed with measles and one more child is being tested, according to today’s Sign On San Diego. All of the 11 children who have been confirmed to have measles were not vaccinated, either because they were younger than one year old (the minimum age for […]
It’s the charm that matters most, at least according to New York Magazine in a review of Eli Stone, the new ABC legal drama that got off to a controversial start with its first episode about lawyer Stone winning a $5.2 million verdict for a mother who claimed that her son became autistic due to […]
There is no link between the MMR vaccine and autism, according to the largest ever published study about this controversial issue. The study appears in the Archives of Disease in Childhood and was led by Gillian Baird, a pediatrician at the Newcomen Centre for Child Development. Almost 250 children aged 10 - 12 and born […]
Teachers in Grundy County (Illinois) are set to strike on Monday and parents of special needs kids are worried about the impact on their children, the Herald News reports. The county’s special ed teachers are employed by a cooperative. Negotiation for a new three-year contract “hit a wall” in December over salaries and a federal […]
“…there might be a deeper meaning to the series as a whole. This is something I touched upon on my own post for today (autism and spirituality–maybe they’ll get that angle right).
wrote one commenter after watching ABC’s new legal TV drama, Eli Stone: In reading responses and commentary on the show, I’ve been struck […]
A certain TV show about a certain lawyer and a certain hypothesis about what causes autism dominated autism discussions this week, for better or for worse—-when I talk about autism, I’m thinking of a very real boy, my son Charlie, and not so much about a fictional TV character. My real boy’s week was more […]
In musicogenic epilepsy, seizures are trigged by music; Neurophilosophy writes about Stacey Gayle, whose seizures seem to have been trigged by hearing Sean Paul’s Temperature. Rock and roll—complete with high-volume drum beats and amped-up guitars and very loud singers—-does not seem to bother Charlie too much. But he definitely tells me “all done” and “turn […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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