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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Autistic students get help navigating college life
Melissa Kossler Dutton | Associated Press | USA Today
When Dan Hackett started college, he didn’t make the grades he knew he could.
Hackett, who has Asperger’s syndrome, found at the Community College of Allegheny County in Pittsburgh that some of his symptoms were holding him back. He had difficulty organizing […]
Fathering Autism
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Fathering Autism | A Scientist Wrestles With the Realities of His Daughter’s Illness
Shankar Vedantam | Washington Post
In Bethesda, a 15-year-old girl talks to her television set. Often, she seems more connected to the tube’s ghostly embrace than to her own father, mother, brothers and sister. She flushes household items down the toilet. She has no […]
Complex Care Program
Sunday, July 6th, 2008Complex Care Program
Children’s National Medical Center
The Complex Care Program (CCP) at Children’s National Medical Center has been providing a “medical home” for children and youth with special health care needs since 2002. A “medical home” is defined as family-centered, coordinated, compassionate, comprehensive, and continuous care for children with special health care needs.
New Device To Help Find Lost Children
Saturday, July 5th, 2008New Device Helps Find Lost Autistic Children
MyFoxDC.com
An estimated 1 in 150 children is diagnosed with autism and many parents have experienced the frightening reality of losing a child with autism, even if just for a few minutes. A new technology is already being used to find and save people with autism. Fox 5’s Will Thomas […]
Careful What You Read On The Internet
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008Autism News on the Internet: Let the Reader Be Aware
Autism.About.com
A couple of days ago, journalist David Kirby wrote in the Huffington Post of a “potentially explosive” admission by the CDC. CDC Director Julie Gerberding had apparently admitted that the 2003 Vaccine Safety DataLink (VSD), a vast collection of information on which a great many studies […]
Smothered In A Classroom
Friday, June 20th, 2008Coroner: Autistic boy smothered at school
UPI
MONTREAL, June 20 (UPI) — A Montreal-area 9-year-old autistic boy was smothered by a restraining weighted blanket at a special needs school, a newly released coroner’s report said.
The report said 3-foot-11 Gabriel Poirier was wrapped at least four times in the blanket on April 17 with only his toes sticking […]
No Yearbook Photos for These Kids!
Thursday, June 19th, 2008No Yearbook Pictures for Autistic Kids
News10.net
ROSEVILLE, CA - Darla and Blandon Granger have grown some tough skin. They say they’ve had no choice ever since their 8-year-old twin boys Hunter and Holdon were diagnosed with autism.
“You’re kind of used to getting discriminated against out in society,” Darla Granger said. “When your kids do something weird, […]
Pretzel Logic
Sunday, June 15th, 2008A new twist on autism education
Karen Goldberg Goff | Washington Times
At Noah’s Pretzels, information and advocacy come with your order. That’s because the pretzel company, with a small stand at Lakeforest Mall in Gaithersburg and a larger presence at Nationals Park, was founded with co-owner Dwayne Herndon’s son, Noah, in mind.
Noah, 8, has autism. He […]
The Autism Rights Movement
Thursday, June 5th, 2008The Autism Rights Movement
Andrew Solomon | NYMag.com
A new wave of activists wants to celebrate atypical brain function as a positive identity, not a disability. Opponents call them dangerously deluded.
On December 1, the NYU Child Study Center came out with advertisements in the form of ransom notes. One said, “We have your son. We will make […]
Ripped Off?
Saturday, May 31st, 2008The great autism rip-off … How a huge industry feeds on parents desperate to cure their children
Barney Calman | DailyMail.co.uk
There is little hope given to parents of children with autism. Mainstream medicine offers no explanation for the cause of this life-long learning disability, thought to affect one in 100, and there are no effective treatments.
Perhaps […]