Not Sparta
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The following post is offered as a reply to Christschool's recent post "Skinner Confuses Science with Terminology". - Noam Chomsky". My responses to Christschool will be in a point by point basis."It's been my experience that behaviorists are quick to recoil and become defensive with inquiry that challenges their "science". From my observation, behaviorist's reaction to skepticism is very similar to the alternative/biomed advocates."I think it first necessasry to draw a distinction between the science of behavior analysis and the philosophy of behaviorism. These are not quite the same thing. It is possible to practice the ...
Source: Interverbal: Reviews of Autism Statements and Research - July 6, 2008
Helping Others Out
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We hear plenty about other people helping out autistic kids—-here’s a story about some autistic children making blankets for children staying at a Rescue Mission in Youngstown, Ohio. So much we—all and any of us—can all do.
Tags: asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, blankets, disabilities blog, disability, Family, family blog, homeless, Parenting, pdd-nos, volunteerShare This
Source: Autism Vox - July 5, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Art asd asperger autism autism blog blankets disabilities blog disability Family family blog homeless Parenting pdd-nos volunteer
England is Evil [2]
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After 22 days in England, I grow weary of the mantra. It’s difficult to determine which is more annoying, the ‘England is evil,’ ditty, muttered in glowering tones of impending doom, or the ‘when we are go America?’ question, in the alternative. It’s tempting to climb into the tumble drier and hide, but of course in England domestic appliances are designed for people of diminished stature. I’d be lucky if I could put one foot inside the dinky little machine, manufactured to dry one pair of underpants at a time. It’s a timely reminder of why all British people wear thongs, regardless of age or physique. The ...
Source: Whitterer on Autism - July 5, 2008 Tags: bad parenting habits
The Wearing of Something Not So Green
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Green Our Vaccines-ista Jenny McCarthy has spoken about her boyfriend, comedian and actor Jim Carrey, as the “autism whisperer.” Carrey was lauded for marching and speaking at the Green Our Vaccines rally and putting on a Green Our Vaccines t-shirt. Autism, as Carrey said, “made me a man“—-certainly enough, it seems, recently to suit up in some quite feminine beach attire, courtesy of an aforementioned friend.
(Not that anyone still knows what green vaccines are, not that we need to!)
Tags: asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, beach, celebrity blog, cross-dressing, disabilities blog, disability...
Source: Autism Vox - July 5, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Comedy Vaccines clothes asd asperger autism autism blog beach celebrity blog cross-dressing disabilities blog disability Family family blog jenny mccarthy jim carrey malibu Parenting pdd-nos swimsuit
Daycare: A lot more than a “perk”
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Daycare. And, afterschool care.
The very idea of these have long seemed a luxury to me. There’s basically five people on this planet who’ve provided these for Charlie: My parents, our speech therapist who we’ve known since she was in college, Jim, and me. As my parents live in California (they’re retired and can visit a couple of times a year, for extended periods), and the speech therapist has a full-time job, does Early Intervention, and much else, basically our daycare/afterschool care team has consisted of a total of two people: Jim and me.
This is not for lack of trying to have Charlie in such ...
Source: Autism Vox - July 5, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Charlisms Family Parenting Work after school asd asperger autism autism blog daycare disabilities blog disability family blog father google mother pdd-nos working mother
England is Evil
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m delighted that he feels able to express his viewpoint verbally. I’d just prefer it if he could be a little more circumspect, especially whilst we happen to be in England. I’m sympathetic to many of his complaints, that the milkshakes are too small and that weather is too big, but loud mouthed Americans are just to much of a cliché, even for him. Handy travel hint of the day – to ensure that your suitcases are fresh for next year, tuck a tumble drier sheet inside before storage. Take care to assess whether or not tumble drier sheets should be eliminated from your life style, along with the...
Source: Whitterer on Autism - July 5, 2008 Tags: suitcase air travel carbon footprint intolerance
Last Day
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Healed by love and sleepAwakened to your voice that told you things.I marvel at how you comfort yourselfI wonder if you sat down with me for moreI know you don't want to leave this place of softest blues and spiky greens,Crows that argue and rabbits that chew, stare, and think, maybe.This goodbye feels like more to meA familiar maw of sadness that yawned open as the day closed.We're going.You're going.I drink scalding coffee, swallow down a fresh blooming painand listen to you whispering sudden cool laughter bubbles in your mouthAnd a symphony of birds outsideOn our last day.
Source: Susan's Blog - July 5, 2008
First (and Big) Impressions
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A new study published in Current Biology suggests that what we “see” internally—in the mind’s eye—can directly influence our visual perception. From yesterday’s Science Daily:
It is well known that a powerful perceptual experience can change the way a person sees things later. Just think of what can happen if you discover an unwanted pest in your kitchen, such as a mouse. Suddenly you see mice in every dust ball and dark corner—or think you do. Is it possible that imagining something, just once, might also change how you perceive things?
“You might think you need to imagine some...
Source: Autism Vox - July 5, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Neuroscience asd asperger autism autism blog brain disabilities blog disability eye Family family blog imagination mind Parenting pdd-nos perception
Ottawa's Unfinished Autism Business
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Autism should not be a partisan issue.Here in New Brunswick progress has been made under the former Conservative government of Bernard Lord and the current Liberal government of Shawn Graham. It is more difficult to say the same of the situation in Ottawa where the separatist Bloc Québécois and the Conservative government of Stephen Harper combined to defeat Charlottetown Liberal MP Shawn Murphy's Private Members Bill C-304 which would have provided a real National Autism Treatment Strategy to ensure adequate financing and ABA/IEBI treatment for Canada's autistic children whether they had the good fortune to reside in a ...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - July 5, 2008 Authors: Autism Reality NB Tags: newtag
(Too) Long Weekend
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“School tomorrow!” Charlie told me with his best grin this morning. He’d slept in, had breakfast around 11, practiced cello with a little coaxing. His internal clock is ticking away: Two days off and it tells him, that was the weekend, back to school. Imagine if everyone preferred to go without long weekends and always have that five-day workweek, no complaints.
Off to find some rides and maybe some fireworks, if the rain allows…….
Tags: asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, clock, disabilities blog, disability, Family, family blog, independence day, july fourth, kids, kids blog, Parenting, pdd-...
Source: Autism Vox - July 4, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Holidays Time Weather asd asperger autism autism blog clock disabilities blog disability Family family blog independence day july fourth kids kids blog Parenting pdd-nos Technology weekend
Sanctioned [46]
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Discussion
(T)he risks attendant to the misuse of the subpoena power are great . . .. “Moreover, the injury resulting from attorney misuse of the subpoena power is not limited to the harm it inflicts upon the parties. Rather, misuse of the subpoena power also compromises the integrity of the court’s processes.”
(citation omitted). Spencer v. Steinman, 1999 WL 33957391, *2 (E.D.Pa.). Fed. R. Civ. P. 45(a)(1) requires an attorney to take steps to avoid imposing an undue burden or expense on a subpoenaed non-party. Fed. R. Civ. P. 11(b) requires an attorney who signs or later advocates a court paper to refrain...
Source: neurodiversity weblog - July 4, 2008 Authors: Kathleen Seidel
Peer Review in the Hub
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Christschool and I seem to be getting in our fair share of disagreements these days.Recently he critiqued and old article on punishment that I had done. I responded here, with a rebuttal and some criticisms of my own. Our main bone of contention was the defintion of torture. In response to the article and to our subsequent discussion, Christschool retitled his article, it now begins in part with "Interverbal defends Matthew Israel". A hand grenade tossed into a debate, if ever there was one.Also, in the comments here on my rebuttal, the topic began to shift from whether physical aversives = torture, to the problems of beha...
Source: Interverbal: Reviews of Autism Statements and Research - July 4, 2008
Boys and Subways
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The Boys and the Subway is a picture-blog-essay-story by artist Christoph Neumann about a dad, two boys, and the NYC subway—one of Charlie’s (and Jim’s) very favorite places. It’s got letters and colored circles, and numbers, and trains that go in tunnels underground! and there are newstands in some of the stations to get sodas and snacks! and if you don’t mind the inferno-like heat in the summer, some really pungent smells, a few flickers of a not-too-small animal’s tale under the tracks, the sounds of the erhu or a steel drum, random trash, mechanical noises: It is the place to be.
Was...
Source: Autism Vox - July 4, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Travel new york asd asperger autism autism blog disabilities blog Family family blog kingston trio mta Parenting pdd-nos subway transportation disability
Watch Your Words When the Subject is Autism, and Vaccines
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Last Sunday a group of experts on mitochondrial disorders met for a meeting in Indianapolis to discuss the case of Hannah Poling, whose underlying mitochondrial disorder was found to have been aggravated by vaccines, after which she developed symptoms of autism. A June 30th New York Times article announced the meeting and noted the case of Hannah Poling and of a 6-year-old Colorado girl who also had a mitochondrial disorder and who, after receiving the FluMist vaccine, had to be hospitalized and died.
Both the NYTimes article and an ABC News report did not make it sufficiently clear that the 6-year-old girl did not have au...
Source: Autism Vox - July 4, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Health Language Vaccines asd asperger autism autism blog disabilities blog disability Family family blog flu flumist mercury mitochondrial disorder Parenting pdd-nos
Happy Fourth of July
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...All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.-Thomas Jefferson, July 4, 1776Here's to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness!See my Tabblo>
Source: Susan's Blog - July 4, 2008
Random photo
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Source: Aspie Home-Education - July 4, 2008 Tags: photos
Schools out
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From The Star: "More and more parents are choosing not to send their children to school. [...] you won't find a desk, a blackboard or even any exercise-books in their household. The children don't have a set curriculum, lessons or homework. They simply learn through play and set their own agenda guided by their interests."FACTFILEContrary to popular belief it is both legal and reasonable to educate your child at home. It's a growing phenomenon - last year 50,000 kids were home educated, that's a 17% increase on 2006.Bullying, poor educational standards, religion, special needs and school choice are all common reasons for h...
Source: Aspie Home-Education - July 4, 2008 Tags: special needs home education news quotes
The Meaning of Independence
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All three of us were born in the USA: Jim on the East coast, me out West, and Charlie inbetween in a city on the Mississippi. Happy 4th of July (if you’re American)—-though this particular holiday isn’t alwyas the easiest for autistic individuals. Fireworks are loud and it seems that every town here in New Jersey has their own special fireworks display, booming and whistling over one’s house. Add the time off from already shorter days of summer school and standing on a hot sidewalk under the hot sun to see floats or marching bands (more loud noises): It’s enough to make one want to forget abou...
Source: Autism Vox - July 4, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Charlisms History Holidays Parenting aging asd asperger autism autism blog disabilities blog disability Family family blog independence july 4th key of g pdd-nos philadelphia supported living
Jonathan Howard Runs The Dream and Raises Autism Awareness in Ottawa
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Jonathan Howard Meets Liberal Leader Stéphane DionPhoto from Run the Dream - Jonathan's BlogJonathan Howard Runs the Dream across Canada to raise funds to support people with autism and raise autism awareness. He began in March in St. John's, Newfoundland and hit Fredericton, New Brunswick where I met him on June 5. I had the opportunity to talk with Jonathan at that time and I was very impressed. He is a sincere and dedicated young man of 24 who has committed the better part of a year of his life to help people with autism.Jonathan has met, and raised autism awareness, with provincial premiers along the way. This week, a...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - July 4, 2008 Authors: Autism Reality NB Tags: newtag
Hot Summer Autism Topics
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Our very non-sleepy summer continues, on the homefront (Charlie’s good, though he looked a little resigned when told he has no school today and Friday, due to the 4th of July) and on the autism front: Buses that don’t know where they’re going, an autistic boy found walking after the highway—and some good news too. The first two items make me more grateful than ever that Charlie attends summer school in our town, at the middle school he’ll be going to in September, with the same teacher he’ll have, and on a bus provided by the county’s education commission.
Every year we’ve co...
Source: Autism Vox - July 3, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Health Legal Issues Science Vaccines asd asperger autism autism blog bernardine healy court david kirby disabilities blog disability Family family blog federal government journalism Media Parenting pdd-nos summer
Sanctioned [45]
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(T)he risks attendant to the misuse of the subpoena power are great . . .. “Moreover, the injury resulting from attorney misuse of the subpoena power is not limited to the harm it inflicts upon the parties. Rather, misuse of the subpoena power also compromises the integrity of the court’s processes.”
(citation omitted). Spencer v. Steinman, 1999 WL 33957391, *2 (E.D.Pa.). Fed. R. Civ. P. 45(a)(1) requires an attorney to take steps to avoid imposing an undue burden or expense on a subpoenaed non-party. Fed. R. Civ. P. 11(b) requires an attorney who signs or later advocates a court paper to refrain...
Source: neurodiversity weblog - July 3, 2008 Authors: Kathleen Seidel
Finding Family
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My girlfriend and I recently returned from a two week roadtrip, including several days at Autreat.
I’ve been going to Autreat for several years. I couldn’t quite explain why I enjoy it so much - there is certainly imperfections about it, like any gathering, but I finally figured out that it must be the group of people that attend and how comfortable I feel in that group. My girlfriend, who attended for the first time this year, also enjoyed herself, saying that she really felt part of a group of people for the first time in her life.
We spent a lot of time talking about it on the way home from Autreat, trying t...
Source: NTs Are Weird - July 3, 2008 Authors: Joel Tags: Friendship Fun Love Vacation
A Graduation and a Song
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19-year-old Erik Weber has graduated from Grossmont College with an associate’s degree and plans to attend Point Loma Nazarene University to get his bachelor’s degree, today’s Sign On San Diego reports. Weber was diagnosed with autism when he was 3 years old and was not really verbal until he was 8. His mother, Sandy Weber, attended college classes with him:
Erik and Sandy, 60, started with physical-education classes – ballroom dance, weight training, tai chi – before moving on to academics. Sometimes she would be in the same room as Erik; sometimes she would be in another part of the building taking ...
Source: Autism Vox - July 3, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: College Music Videos america's got talent asd asperger autism autism blog disabilities blog disability Family family blog jackson five Parenting pdd-nos san diego singing
This is us
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Source: Aspie Home-Education - July 3, 2008 Tags: photos
Autism's War and the Notion of Recovery
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As I have noted in previous posts, I have begun to notice a rift (or two) in the field of autism research and advocacy. There are those who would consider themselves to be engaged in a war on autism's wrath and it's evil doings (Ex-Playboy Gal McCarthy) and those who advocate for the neurodiversity movement, a movement which sees those with ASDs as different/eccentric and merely requiring acceptance from the neurotypical world. In the neurodiversity movement, "recovery" is an insult.
I definitely fall somewhere on the middle of this ideological spectrum. Autism Vox, a college professor in New Jersey who has a son on the a...
Source: Everyone's Blog Posts - Asperger's Syndrome - July 3, 2008 Authors: ariane321
Moms on Autism Episode 6 | Sleeping Issues
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Podcast 6: Sleeping Issues Difficulty sleeping? You’re not alone! Autistic children have VARIED sleep patterns.Listen Now
Source: Autism Podcast - July 3, 2008 Authors: Michael Boll
Why Vaccines Are Important.
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Okay, so Ramesh Ferris looks nothing like Mal Reynolds. For one thing, Ramesh has more muscle in his upper body. For another, Ramesh is of Indian descent (as in, he was born in India). But he's still a "Big Damn Hero" in my mind.Ramesh is a polio survivor. He was adopted from an orphanage in India by the current Anglican bishop of the Diocese of Algoma, Ron Ferris, and has lived nearly all of his life in Canada. Because of this, he has had access to all kinds of health care and rehabilitation that he would not have had in India.Ramesh can walk because of crutches and braces, but he only has these things because he was luck...
Source: ASD :: Commentary on Autism, Disability, and the World. - July 3, 2008 Tags: Media Communication Awareness
Why I Don’t Hold Charlie’s Hand All the Time Now (But Still Sometimes)
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Don’t know about you, but summer has so far been anything but slower-paced and lazy around here. A friend who’s also an academic likes to say that he got into “the business” for the three-months summers: guess I take after Charlie, though, and do better with the same old same old routine of things. I’ve taken on some, or rather, some more administrative duties at work and start teaching summer school next week (a course on Psychology and Literature for high school students—-I suspect I’ll have some things to say regarding it here). It’s also Freshman Orientation time, and t...
Source: Autism Vox - July 3, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Family Health Legislation Stereotypes Treatment asd asperger autism autism blog cancer disabilities blog disability family blog growing up lymphona Parenting pdd-nos
Autistic Children Grow Up
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Autistic children grow up.They get taller, bigger, stronger. And like other parents we must adapt as they do, both to continue to enjoy their presence in our lives and to help them develop to their fullest potential. For some parents of autistic children the physical growth of their children also represents a point of departure; they must part company with their autistic children whose behavioral challeges can no longer be accommodated coming from the large, powerful frame of an adult. The brutal reality is that some parents (particularly mothers) and siblings are physically attacked by the autistic children, brother or si...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - July 3, 2008 Authors: Autism Reality NB Tags: newtag
Lost For 4 Hours
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The driver of a minivan taking a 9-year-old autistic boy, Justin Colon, to summer camp got lost for four hours and failed to bring the child to his program. When Justin’s mother, Dawn Gorman, contacted the bus driver by cell phone, the driver was unable to say where he was and stopped answering the phone after awhile. Gorman then called the police, as reported in today’s Asbury Park Press:
Capt. Bruce Hall of the Marlboro Police Department, said one of his officers spotted the vehicle a mile or so from the camp facility and brought the child to the police department. The driver, who had an unauthorized person ...
Source: Autism Vox - July 2, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Safety Schoolbus asd asperger autism autism blog disabilities blog disability driver Family family blog lost Parenting pdd-nos
Stem Cell Mutation and Rett Syndrome
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This study is the first on neural stem cells and the development of autism or, more specifically, Rett Syndrome. Dr. Lipton notes that
“‘Having identified a mutation that causes this defect, we can track what happens. Perhaps we can correct it in a mouse, and if so, eventually correct it in humans’”
Other studies have looked at specific genetic mutations and there has been speculation in media reports about a cure for Rett Syndrome as a result of these genetic findings.
Tags: asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, disabilities blog, disability, Family, family blog, Parenting, pdd-nos, rett syndromeShare This
Source: Autism Vox - July 2, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Genetics Neuroscience asd asperger autism autism blog disabilities blog disability Family family blog Parenting pdd-nos rett syndrome
American Nerd by Ben Nugent
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I'm really enjoying Ben Nugent's new book, American Nerd, which disects modern notions of "Nerdism" and "Geekdom" in our culture. I happend to pick up an interview he did the other day on WBUR's "On Point" from NPR (if you're driving just a few miles to the east of Keene, NH you can pick up the Boston stations, but not here in Keene). The book should be of interest to anyone on the spectrum or anyone who knows anyone on the spectrum. Ben has offered to do an interview for Asperger's Conversations...I'm hoping he can wait until I finish what so far is a terrific book!
Source: Asperger's Conversations - July 2, 2008 Authors: Larry Welkowitz
So.. Lincoln or Darwin?
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I just finished reading an outstanding comparative piece, lookingat Lincoln and Darwin. It asks who was the more influential man.Despite being an inherently absurd question and leading to the inevitablepeeing contest in the comments, the article is simply just excellent. It is alsomostly accurate.Coming from a scientific and skeptical viewpoint, it is excellent to see Darwin'slife presented correctly in a major media source. Also, the comments are great dealof fun. Put on a hard hat and grab some popcorn and have at it!
Source: Interverbal: Reviews of Autism Statements and Research - July 2, 2008
Not a Nice Thing to Say
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Can you imagine having this said to you?
“One family I met took their child to the doctor and the doctor said: ‘If he was a dog you would put him down.’”
As quoted in the February 7 Campbelltown-McArthur Advertiser (Australia).
Tags: Animals, asd, asperger, australia, autism, autism blog, disabilities blog, disability, doctors, dogs, Family, family blog, Parenting, pdd-nos, Stereotypes, sydneyShare This
Source: Autism Vox - July 2, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Animals Stereotypes asd asperger australia autism autism blog disabilities blog disability doctors dogs Family family blog Parenting pdd-nos sydney
Camping in Monmouthshire
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by an organic vegetable garden...
Source: Aspie Home-Education - July 2, 2008 Tags: trips photos
Getting Experience
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In a previous blog post, I referenced employment being denied to people without prior job experience, as an example when a negative outcome may not be the result of prejudice towards disability, but something else (in this case, something that would have happened whether or not the person was disabled). Some comments asked, “How do people get jobs if everything requires experience?”
The short answer is: It is hard, but not everything requires experience either.
I’ll explain how I got to my current position, in the computer field, but I don’t want readers to lose track of two keys: persistence and lu...
Source: NTs Are Weird - July 2, 2008 Authors: Joel Tags: Employment
More Thoughts on Recovery After an Interview
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Tuesday morning Jim and I were interviewed for an autism documentary in the making. The director and his crew came to my office in Jersey City, which is in an old single-family house, with barely any space between it in and the neighboring houses (one of which contains my college’s mailroom). Jim and I were interviewed together, which was, frankly, fun. Not that we don’t spend rather a lot of time talking to each other, but it’s a different thing to be asked questions—about autism, neurodiversity, “recovery,” how I got started blogging, when we first thought “something” was u...
Source: Autism Vox - July 2, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Family Health Insurance Military Movies Parenting Treatment asd asperger autism autism blog conversion disabilities blog disability documentary dorothy day family blog interview jenny mccarthy pdd-nos recovery Rel
Governor, Parents and Lawmakers Furious With Autism Speaks
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Autism Speaks while advocating for what it thinks is best for Autistic People disregards others input and upsets Parents and lawmakers in Pensylvania.
It appears Pensylvania attempted to a great thing for Autistic People by helping by requiring companies to provide insurance coverage for Autistic People’s health care in a non-discriminatory fashion.
According to Rick Bryant, president [...]
Source: AspieWeb.net - July 2, 2008 Authors: admin Tags: Autism Healthcare and Insurance Autism Speaks advocacy Aspergers autistic
For want of an apostrophe
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Oh, those pesky, pesky pronouns.
I'm often reminded when talking to Bud just how difficult the English language is. This morning I was reminded that, when spoken, the word "your" sounds exactly like the word "you're," and confusion of the two can make the response to a question sound like a personal affront.
Bud woke for the day today at 3:30 a.m. - a phenomenon I haven't seen since late last
Source: MOM - Not Otherwise Specified - July 2, 2008 Authors: MOM-NOS
7 Year Old Autistic Boy Wanders Away From Camp And Into Traffic
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Not long after autistic adult Keith Kennedy wandered away from a camp in Wisconsin 7 year old autistic boy Colin Hays wandered away from camp in Maryland - where he was spotted by his mother a short time after she had dropped him off for the day wandering the shoulder of a busy highway. As reported by myfox washington d.c.:"he ... crossed over busy Montgomery Road and walked over a highway bridge. Then, he climbed down and wound up walking on a highway on ramp shoulder .... The posted speed limit on the ramp is 40 miles an hour, but traffic routinely travels at speeds of 50 or faster. Colin's mother says she was walking a...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - July 2, 2008 Authors: Autism Reality NB Tags: newtag
The Adult Autism Crisis
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In What Happens When They Grow Up, Newsweek, to its credit, focuses on the very real adult autism residential care crisis which exists in the United States (and in Canada). Newsweek is unable to provide any real solutions but hopefully the article will help focus the public discussion of autism on the very serious crisis confronting adults with autism disorders who can not care for themselves. Not all "autistics" grow up to become researchers, Supreme Court of Canada litigants and college students, appear repeatedly on CNN with Dr. Gupta, or start "Autistic"rights movements. Some are more severely impaired, lacking basic ...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - July 2, 2008 Authors: Autism Reality NB Tags: newtag
Judge Upholds Restraining Order Barring Adam Race From Attending St. Joseph’s Parish
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A judge has upheld the restraining order barring 13-year-old Adam Race from attending church in St. Joseph’s parish in Bertha, Minnesota. From KSAX:
Todd County District Judge Sally Ireland Robertson says 13-year-old Adam Race engaged in “repeated harassment” while attending services at the Church of St. Joseph.
Robertson says Adam’s family has been unable to prevent him from disrupting church services.
The ruling on Monday follows a hearing last week that Adam’s mother had requested to protest the restraining order. Carol Race says many of the claims in the restraining order are not true.
I&#...
Source: Autism Vox - July 1, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Legal Issues Religion asd asperger autism autism blog catholic catholicism inclusion mother pdd-nos priest restraining order teacher
A Most Definitely Not Needed Item
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Yelling at Charlie is a 100% surefire guaranteed way to assure that he won’t do what I ask him (does it work with anyone, really?). He’s been so sound sensitive these past few months as it is, often putting his hands over his ears and, regardless of muggy June Jersey weather, snuggling the hood of his blue fleece (”summerweight”) sweatshirt over his head. So no buying a mom megaphone!
Tags: asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, disabilities blog, disability, Family, family blog, fleece, gizmo, megaphone, noise, Parenting, pdd-nosShare This
Source: Autism Vox - July 1, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Parenting Sensory Technology asd asperger autism autism blog disabilities blog disability Family family blog fleece gizmo megaphone noise pdd-nos
Happy 24th Anniversary To Us
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10,000 years can give you such a crick in the neck!--The Genie in AladdinBut 24 years, well, our little party's just beginning...
Source: Susan's Blog - July 1, 2008
Teaching learners with multiple needs blogspot
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I selfishly use my blog for a repository of bookmarks I am afraid to lose track of. And to voice my opinion. Neither one of these are particularly interesting to the rest of you. I'm sorry!!!There is a blog that a teacher has that includes a lot of free assessment tools, companies who deal in AAT, and common sense. I am studying to pass a Praxis II test in Severe and Profound Mental Disabilities. It's really tough to do without a college textbook, and it's going to be 5 essay questions to be finished in 1 hour. I'm not good at essay questions...and at age 50, the Alzheimer's my mother suffers from is starting to look like a genetic trait...
Source: Hard Won Wisdom - July 1, 2008
Autscape....Preparations
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Booked my flights, hotel etc. Looking forward to go abroad! Been long ago.Doing well at my jobs.Weather here is fine, hot! Sunny tomorrow thunder and lightning as well.Been offered a home somewhere else. Far away. But I can not leave my jobs here instantly. Gained 2 kilogrammes, but it seems the extra weight has disappeared again!Bye for nowAspie Bird
Source: The Art of Being Asperger Woman - July 1, 2008
Mirror Neurons, Motor Ability, and Empathy
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Mirror neurons are a type of brain cell that seem to be involved in perceiving the intentions—the mental state—of another person. Mirror neurons are activated or “fire” both when we perform an action and also when we see that action being performed by someone else and it’s been hypothesized that there might be a dysfunction of the mirror neuron system in autistic persons. According to a 2006 article in Scientific American:
If the mirror neuron system is indeed involved in the interpretation of complex intentions, then a breakdown of this neural circuitry could explain the most striking deficit in peop...
Source: Autism Vox - July 1, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Neuroscience Parenting asd asperger autism autism blog brain disabilities blog disability Family family blog mirror neurons pdd-nos
Vacation
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Technically I'm still on vacation. I'm in the airport, using their free wifi before catching the two-part flight home.This quadrant of family a lot nicer and more fun than the gender opposite quadrant family (quadrant because of which parent and which grandparent they are attached to, so we'll call this new group of people quadrant III, and the group I'm most familiar with quadrant I)... who are rather deficient in several areas (at least the ones I have met, and I have met a lot of them. They think we're strange!). Quadrant III are intelligent people, despite some obvious gaps in their logic processes, which we all have. ...
Source: Misadventures from a Different Perspective - July 1, 2008
Out of the Window
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A 3-year-old girl who has a “form of autism” was treated at a hospital and released after jumping out of her mother’s moving car. KY3 reports that:
The mother called 911 to report the girl jumped out of the moving car near the intersection of Farm Road 171 at Farm Road 66, south of Highway KK near Fellow Lake Recreational Area.
The child showed up six-tenths of a mile away from where the mother parked her car. Cleo Link heard a scratching at his door at 6986 N. Farm Road 171 and opened it to find the girl about 7:30 a.m.
An ambulance took the girl to a hospital. Corcoran says the mother has a proper child...
Source: Autism Vox - July 1, 2008 Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Parenting Safety asd asperger autism autism blog auto car disabilities blog disability Family family blog pdd-nos window
Society's grip
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"Why does society need to ‘have a grip’ on education of my children? Society does not “have a grip” on whether or not I feed or clothe my children. Why does it need to “have a grip” on their education?"From a response to A Class Apart - read it here.
Source: Aspie Home-Education - July 1, 2008 Tags: home education news read online links
