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When you are the parent of a child with autism, you spend a lot of your time when you are interacting with "the public" having to explain your child to people because their disability is not visible but still effects their interaction with people and with the world. This involves delivering the news over and [...]
Despite the fact that there is no good scientific evidence that the measles vaccines itself or the preservative Thimerosal (which was removed from children’s vaccines in 2001) causes autism, parent fears over the usage of vaccines appear to be causing a rise in the number of measles cases reported in the U.S. in recent years. [...]
In case you missed this story back in the spring, a group of Canadian researchers are working on a test that they think is capable of diagnosing autism in children as young as 9 months. The test is simple and takes about ten minutes, they say. It is done by tracking the eye movements of [...]
MSNBC has a story up right now called Autistic Kids’ Outbursts Stir Furor And Guilt that made me realize that something that seemed to me very cut-and-dried about how to deal with taking my child out in public isn’t for other people. That surprised me somewhat. The story discusses some of the recent incidents that [...]
College seems a long way off for us since our daughter just starts kindergarten next week (more on that tomorrow) but CNN has a great story up today about programs at colleges that help students with autism manage in the campus environment, both socially and academically. It makes some great points that we shouldn’t be [...]
Image via Wikipedia This idea came to me via my favorite productivity site, Lifehacker, and when I saw it I immediately thought that it seemed like a great adaptation for someone with autism who needs to think of time in a more concrete, touch-and-feel, way than on a calendar. Michael Hunger needs to bill time [...]
Moms, think you have to give up your dreams for yourself because your child has been diagnosed with autism? Melanie Roach doesn’t think so. And if you disagree, she can lift you up over her head until you change your mind. Seriously. Roach is a 33-year-old married mom of three from Washington State whose 5-year-old [...]
Thanks everyone for bearing with me through the last month. Between first my mom’s surgery and then being sick with a bad bug that the doctor says we brought home from the hospital when we were visiting her, it has been a very long three weeks or so. The doctor’s visit my husband and I [...]
Two weeks from tomorrow my daughter ceases to be a pre-k student and becomes a full-fledged member of the student body at her elementary school – not a member of a voluntary program, but a required-by-law-to-be-enrolled student. I’ve written here before about my frustration with the invisibility of the pre-k program at her school. Many [...]
Talk Radio Network seems determined to stand by the outrageous comments of conservative talk show host Michael Savage on July 16th about autism. Autism advocates are formulating a plan to fight back in a language that Talk Radio can understand, since apparently the language of truth and common decency doesn’t mean anything to them. In [...]
