I tried to go to bed at a decent hour, but HBO was showing Autism: The Musical. I stayed up and watched.
A:TM is a wonderful and powerful show that follows six kids and their parents in The Miracle Project, a charity started by one of the parents to give kids an opportunity to participate in [...]
HT: Adventures in Autism
CBS News’ Sherryl Attkisson reported (click here, then see Vaccines Linked to Autism Case on the right) on the case of Hannah Poling, whose case the government conceded last week. At 1:57:
The Poling case is the first of its kind to become public, but our investigation uncovered nine other cases as far [...]
HT: Adventures in Autism
David Kirby of the Huffington Post reports that the government has quietly conceded one of the cases heard by the Court of Federal Claims. This is the same group of cases that included Cedillio vs. HHS. It bugs me that there is no link to an official report, but then it wouldn’t [...]
Applied Behavior Analysis therapy, by its very nature, is likely the therapy that has the highest documentation of success for children with pervasive development disorders. There is no question that it has helped our daughter learn useful skills, such as getting dressed, feeding herself, identifying objects in everyday life, learning the calender and written [...]
Drudge linked in red this article (link dead) from Yahoo News, which states that a new scientific report shows a link between wireless technology and autism.
In the first paragraph, the publisher (PressReleaseHelp) states that the study was published by “the peer-reviewed Australasian Journal of Clinical Environmental Medicine.” There is no Google hit for this association [...]
Thomas Sowell, no stranger to having a child with special needs, writes in TownHall.com regarding the potential dangers of expanding the diagnosis of autism. One effect is the filling of assistance lists.
Much has been made of statistics showing a sharp increase in diagnoses of autism in recent years.
What has gotten much less attention is the [...]
This evening an interesting thing happened. The younger daughter sang one of the five-note Amens from Divine Service III on Sunday. The older daughter, thinking it was cute and good, repeated it. Thus the younger daughter, seeing sister’s approval, really got into it, singing it over and over again.
Not only could this [...]
Louder than Words: A Mother’s Journey in Healing Autism is Jenny McCarthy’s retelling of her struggles with her son Evan, now 5 years old. It is a fast read, 202 pages in larger type.
The story of Evan is interesting, but the author’s own character development is the real reason to read the book. She [...]
