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An autistic 10-year-old wanders away from his elementary school in Lantana, Florida, on Monday and no one notices; he walks home alone in the rain. More details are at WPTV.com: Needless to say, his mother, Tatrisha Williams, is more than concerned.
The response from the Palm Beach County School District spokesperson is that a mistake […]
A Tennessee high school student, Eric L died on August 18th after suffering head trauma at the Byington-Solway Career and Technical Center last Wednesday. Law was autistic and a special education student. From VolunteerTV.com
Oaks says two employees are on paid administrative leave pending an investigation. Oaks says the student fell from a vehicle, but […]
It’s about three weeks till Charlie goes back to school. He’s (as often noted here) looking forward to it, as he knows that a good classroom with well-trained teachers and therapists awaits him. But what if you don’t have a school for your child to attend—-that’s the situation facing some autistic children in Tucson: KVOA […]
Thomas Brown, a filmmaker in Ohio, is making two films, one called Ant Boy and the other Silent Hero, which both include autistic characters. Today’s Port Clinton News notes that both films are to be about autism, bullying and the emotional issues that children face. Brown (who can be contacted by email) is looking for […]
The secret to raising smart kids, that is. In last year’s Scientific American, Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck writes that focusing on effort, rather than intelligence or talent”—what she calls a “growth mind-set”—-helps make children “high achievers in school and in life.” A “focus on effort,” she writes, “can help resolve helplessness and engender success.” […]
It’s far away but this news from today’s Irish Times hits close, very close, to home:
Up to 100 children with speech and language difficulties who were attending pre-schools may be without a place in September after the organisation which runs the classes today announced it had gone into liquidation.
Early Language Intervention (ELI), which runs four […]
“What Tim eventually said….was that he didn’t want to go to school because he thought the school was trying to kill him.”
John Miller, a podiatrist in Allegany, N.Y, says this about his 12-year-old son, who has Asperger Syndrome, and who was, according to a July 15th New York Times article, held down prone on the […]
I’ve lived in New Jersey (and on the East Coast) for several years (and am still highly capable of getting completely lost on Jersey roads). I grew up in California, in the Bay Area, and I’m ever curious to know what is going on (and not only because we may end up out there one […]
Autism not a problem for 12-year-old Muhammad Danial Zainuddin. Danial is autistic and was only able to “mumble a few words” when he started school at the age of 6—-at 12, he is a “straight A pupil and one of the creme-de-la-creme of his school.” He also won a Second Place in the the state […]
Not “a school for kids with autism,” but “a school that accepts kids with autism”—so Alison Moors, director of the Academy for Precision Learning says in an article in the June 27th Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Paul Nyhan. The school is just finishing its first year, with four teachers and five students. It was started by […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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