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 [...]
It takes a lot for my daughters to surprise me any more.
This last week, whenever I sat at the piano, the younger requested “Jesus Loves Me.” When I have the Accompaniment to the Liturgy up, she follows the Lord’s Prayer with her finger, no doubt reading whole word after whole word. She knows that completely [...]
HT: BizzyBlog
Last week John Stossel published an article at townhall.com about Walmart’s $4 prescriptions and a medical industry that is growing outside of the normal way of doing business with insurance. It’s an article worth reading. Some drugs are so cheap now that people choose not to pay for insurance; thus, we will never see [...]
