Archive for December, 2007
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Monday, December 31st, 2007Human Genetic Variation: Science’s ‘Breakthrough Of The Year’
ScienceDaily.com
ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2007) — In 2007, researchers were dazzled by the degree to which genomes differ from one human to another and began to understand the role of these variations in disease and personal traits. Science and its publisher, AAAS, the nonprofit science society, recognize “Human Genetic […]
Will Trump Get Fired?
Sunday, December 30th, 2007Will Autism Speaks Fire Donald Trump?
Kim Stagliano | Huffiington Post
Will Autism Speaks “fire” billionaire fundraiser Donald Trump for telling the world he believes vaccinations may be at the heart of the autism? Trump’s long running hit “The Apprentice” runs on NBC, and Bob Wright, founder of Autism Speaks is still with GE, which owns the […]
What Is Autism?
Sunday, December 30th, 2007What is autism? Beyond the symptoms and stereotypes.
Donna Williams | American Spectator
My definition of autism has evolved through my experience as an autism consultant with hundreds of children since 1997 together with my own experience as a person assessed as a psychotic infant in 1965 at age 2 and later diagnosed with autism.
My definition has […]
Depression and Autism
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007Relieving Parental Stress and Depression: How Helping Parents Helps Children
Connie Anderson, Ph.D. | Interactive Autism Network
It is not easy to be the parent of a child on the autism spectrum. There are joyous moments, but there is no denying the challenges parents face, and the toll these take. Parents worry themselves sick, fight for services, […]
Lionsgate Academy
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007In Minneapolis, Parents Start a Charter School for Autistic Children
James Walsh | Washington Post
MINNEAPOLIS — You can see the ache in Tamara Phillips’s eyes.
As her autistic daughter, now 14, has grown, so has the loneliness — her daughter’s loneliness in school, her parents’ loneliness because having an autistic child can seem a solitary climb up […]
Brothers and Sisters
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007Sibling Studies: The good, the bad, and the contradictory
Interactive Autism Network
As some autism researchers pore over brain MRIs in labs and other researchers closely observe children in natural play settings, noting in micro-detail every element of every interaction, and as parents scour the landscape of cyberspace for the latest and greatest in treatment methods, […]
Police in New Jersey Learn About Autism (More)
Friday, December 21st, 2007This Times article was written about previously in the Asbury Park Press. See my earlier post also.
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Helping Police Officers Understand the Autistic
Tina Kelley | New York Times
BRICK TOWNSHIP, N.J. — An autistic boy is discovered standing in the middle of a busy road, on his way to the beach. A young girl with autism outsmarts […]
Being Autistic on The Job
Thursday, December 20th, 2007Autistic Traits: A Plus for Many Careers
About.com
Redefining the Workplace for Autistic Teens and Adults: Since when have passion, meticulous attention to detail, and lack of interest in office gossip been problems in the workplace? Since the workplace was defined as a 9-5 social setting! It’s true that offices — and the stock rooms at Walmart […]
New Research Points to Possible Treatments
Thursday, December 20th, 2007Gene tinkering curbs autism in mice | Pill in the pipeline could have same effect in people, scientists say
Steve Mitchell | MSNBC
Scientists could be on the verge of a new treatment for autism, if the results of animal research hold up in people. A study in mice suggests that several drugs, including one that is […]
Too Much Mainstreaming?
Sunday, December 16th, 2007Schools Accused of Pushing Mainstreaming to Cut Costs
John Hechinger | Wall Street Journal
GREECE, N.Y — For years, Jonathan Schuster’s mother begged the public schools here to put her son in a special program where he could get extra help for his emotional problems. By 11th grade, Jonathan had broken his hand punching a wall and […]