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A pilot daycare program for special needs children is being launched at the Kalamazoo Autism Center, under Professor Richard Malott, a psychology professor at Western Michigan University, the August 15th MLive reports. It will offer daycare services from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, as well as supplemental behavioral-based instruction will be […]
This summer has seen its share of discussion of the challenges of traveling with special needs children (on airplanes, in particular); more recently, there’s been discussion of traveling with autism assistance dogs, too. The August 12th International Herald Tribune describes the difficulties of caring for a special needs child when you, the parent, have to […]
Daycare. And, afterschool care.
The very idea of these have long seemed a luxury to me. There’s basically five people on this planet who’ve provided these for Charlie: My parents, our speech therapist who we’ve known since she was in college, Jim, and me. As my parents live in California (they’re retired and can visit a […]
So Jim drives me into work in a downpour and I go into classrooms with students saying “Dr. Chew, where were you?” (revealing that, despite frequent reminders, they did not check online for my message that class was canceled on Monday). Due to the lingering effects of laryngitis, instruction in the perfect passive system of […]
Amid all the interesting developments in the autism world today—the NYU Child Study Center’s ‘town meeting’, David Kirby’s latest interpretation of ‘evidence’ for a link between autism and vaccines or something in vaccines, a little politicking—I’ve been fielding emails from various colleagues from work, regarding the scheduling of student presentations. It has been made very […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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