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After her 3-year-old son, Alec, was diagnosed with autism in April of this year, he and his mother, Andrea Nicholson, moved from their home in Bracebridge to another place where the waiting list for services (specifically Intensive Behavior Intervention or IBI, or ABA in the US) was not dauntingly long. Today’s Gravenhurst Banner notes that […]
On October 1st, special education teacher Lalla Schmidt called police after a 14-year-old student hit her lightly on the arm. Police wrote the child a “ticket for assault by contact.” Shane Gregory is autistic and admitted to doing so according to his mother, Holli Gregory:
The teacher’s refusal to follow a plan for Shane Gregory’s education […]
Says Janice Nodvin, program director of the adult Down syndrome program at the Institute for the Study of Disadvantage and Disability, a nonprofit advocacy organization based in Atlanta, about her now 29-year-old son Evan in today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
“Evan is a man, and he should always be treated as a man, even though we sometimes have […]
Sunday night, it happened that we drove past Charlie’s old school.
I don’t mean the elementary school he attended last year before moving up to middle school and simply loved. The main part of that school was an old stone building that had been added onto; the school was located on a quiet street with a […]
The cost of treatments and therapies for autism and how to pay for them. The question of what is the best/right/appropriate “treatment” for autistic children and is an educational/behavioral method like Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) really a treatment that should be covered by insurance companies, or is is something that school districts (under IDEA, […]
168 openings for classroom instructors and 115 for speech therapists and psychologists: That’s how many vacancies the Clark County school district has to fill, the October 10th Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. School officials are trying to reduce class size and start new programs for autistic students and recruiters are traveling this month to Dallas to […]
A special education teacher in New Britain, Connecticut, is still teaching and on the school district’s payroll, the October 11th Hartford Courant reports. A warrant was issued for the arrest of Michelle Campbell on Thursday; she was released after posting $5000 bail. Campbell taught a special education class with ten autistic students at the Chamberlain […]
The escalators in the PATH station at the WTC site are very, very long. Charlie paused and touched the black plastic rail before getting on and standing on the left side of a stair. I followed and then Jim and as we were going down I looked behind to see if anyone was trying to […]
Since Charlie had Thursday off from school, I took the train to work so he and Jim could have the car. Almost every seat was taken when I got on and I settled into a windowless row by the door. Neither the air-conditioning nor the lights were working. I put my coffee cup between my […]
6-year-old Luke Baehne has a 50-50 chance of survival after nearly drowning in an irrigation ditch on Tuesday, the Mail Tribune (Oregon) reports. Luke is autistic and was attending STEPS, a life-skills program through Southern Oregon Education Service District for children with autism or severe disabilities. He went missing around 1pm during recess at Jacksonville […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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