Archive for July, 2008
« Previous EntriesLoudoun County Autism Summit
Thursday, July 31st, 2008Loudoun Families Mobilize to Cover Treatment for Autism
Sydney Wilmer | LoudounExtra.com | Washington Post
Parents of autistic children packed a meeting Monday evening at Lansdowne on the Potomac to rally support for legislation that would ease the disability’s financial burden on families.
Appearing at an event billed as the Loudoun County Autism Summit, they spoke about the […]
Autism Certifications
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Students With Autism Require Certified Teachers
Ann Ali | The State Journal
West Virginia’s teachers are having a hard time keeping up with the demand for autism training, according to the executive director of the West Virginia Autism Training Center at Marshall University.
Teachers often further their own educations, but West Virginia’s teachers are having a hard time […]
Communication Problems
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008Autism’s Social Struggles Due To Disrupted Communication Networks In Brain
Science Daily
ScienceDaily (July 23, 2008) — Picking up on innuendo and social cues is a central component of engaging in conversation, but people with autism often struggle to determine another person’s intentions in a social interaction. New research from Carnegie Mellon University sheds light on the […]
False Diagnoses?
Sunday, July 20th, 2008Thomas Sowell: Autism diagnosis overused, often harmful for children
New-Press.com
“New Ways to Diagnose Autism Earlier” read a recent headline in the Wall Street Journal. There is no question that you can diagnose anything as early as you want. The real question is whether the diagnosis will turn out to be correct.
My own awareness of how easy […]
Michael Savage, Autism Expert
Saturday, July 19th, 2008Savage on autism: “A fraud, a racket. … In 99 percent of the cases, it’s a brat who hasn’t been told to cut the act out”
Media Matters
On the July 16 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage claimed that autism is “[a] fraud, a racket.” Savage went on to say, “I’ll tell you […]
Support?
Saturday, July 19th, 2008Autism: Where’s the Support?
Ann Bauer | Washington Post | Opinion
There is a family down the street whom I envy.
I’ve never met them. They live in a two-story white house — a mother, a father and their grown son. Outside is a trimmed yard with rosebushes and a wooden arbor where the men work on weekends.
The […]
Some Parents Share Traits
Saturday, July 19th, 2008Parents of Autistic Children Are Often Aloof Themselves
HealthDay News | Washington Post
THURSDAY, July 17 (HealthDay News) — New research shows that some parents of autistic children appear to be “socially aloof,” providing more evidence that some aspects of autism are hereditary.
“This manifests as a tendency not to prefer interactions with others, not to enjoy ’small […]
PA Passes Autism Bill
Friday, July 11th, 2008Autism law praised as model for other states
Liz Hayes | Valley News Dispatch | Pittsburgh Tribune Review
Autism advocates are hailing the long-awaited passage of a state bill that requires insurance companies to start covering autism treatments next July.
House Bill 1150 — named for the estimated 1 in 150 children now diagnosed with the neurological disorder […]
Boy Wanders Away From Camp onto Rt. 100
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008People often think that we parents of kids with autism are too overprotective…if we are then this is why.
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Wandering boy stirs camp concerns
Larry Carson | Baltimore Sun
Kristen Detwiler had just merged onto busy Route 100 in Ellicott City one afternoon last week when she saw a shocking sight: Her 7-year-old autistic son was running against […]
Possible Federal Chelation Study
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Fringe autism treatment could get federal study
Carla K. Johnson | Washington Post | Associated Press
CHICAGO — Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine.
The treatment removes heavy metals from the body and is based on […]