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Tomorrow, August 7th, from 11 am to 3 pm EST, there will be a meeting of the Meeting of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) Autism Strategic Plan Implementation Workgroup. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss budgetary requirements for the IACC Strategic Plan for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Research; workgroup findings will […]
Charlie and I started the week on the West Coast, visiting my family (and Charlie missing his dad so much he tried to walk back to New Jersey)—came back on a red eye Tuesday morning and he was back in school on Wednesday. Meanwhile:
The Regression Question
Do some children seem to be autistic from the […]
Autism now occurs in every 1 in 150 children, according to figures released in February of 2007 by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. To illustrate what some term an “autism epidemic” (including three presidential candidates), people regularly compare the prevalence rate of children diagnosed with autism to that of children diagnosed with […]
Today, April 21st, from 11 am to 6 pm EST, there will be a meeting of the Strategic Planning Workgroup formed by the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC). You can “attend” the workgroup meeting through a conference call phone number and a web presentation tool on the Internet.
Click this link to join the Webinar:
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/630812808/106536587
Webinar […]
The Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) coordinates efforts to research, educate, and screen for autism with the Department of Health and Human Services (go here for more information on the IACC).
On Monday, April 21st from 11 am to 6 pm EST, there will be a meeting of the Strategic Planning Workgroup formed by the […]
After their now-7-year-old son Ryan was diagnosed with autism 5 years ago, Lorri and Dan Unumb “they sold their house, downsized and sacrificed to cover costs,” an April 1st CNN story reports. Intensive behavior therapy for Ryan costs between $70,000 and $80,000 a year which is lawyer and law professor Lorri Unumb’s “entire salary.” The […]
The April 1st CNN Money.com reviews the “recent brouhaha about 9-year-old Hannah Poling,” whose family received a settlement under the federal government’s Vaccine Injury Compensation Program “based on their claim that childhood vaccinations aggravated a rare metabolic disorder in Hannah, triggering autism symptoms.” Writer David Stipp notes that, in a 2006 survey, 54% of families […]
It’s April 1st and the start of “Autism Awareness Month”: There’ll be plenty in the news about autism and also appeals to support research—and what kind of research, in particular?
Last year (FY 2007), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) devoted $127 million to research autism spectrum disorders through “grants, contracts, research projects conducted as […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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