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All Drupal All The Time – Too Bad I Can’t BreatheEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Writing on the iPhone. Hard to breathe. Shaky. Strangely okay besides that. Sometimes writing helps. Been very busy lately. All Drupal all the time. Besides from the insane learning curve and non-intuitive UI, I am in awe of its power and flexibility. After more than 15 hours of video tutorials and reading tons of docs, I am finally understanding how it works and how the code is organized. I am learning while building a site for an awesome organization. Will link to it when it is done. If all goes according to plan, it will launch around Jan. 1st, 2010. Not mentioning the org. because there is a board and I don’t kno...
Source: LBnuke - November 7, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Lori Tags: Autism / Asperger's Geekery Random drupal life Source Type: blogs

Remove Aspergers as a Diagnosis?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In 1944, an Austrian pediatrician, Hans Asperger, wrote about some characteristics he was seeing in some people, such as clumsiness, repetitive routines or rituals, different speech patterns (monotone, overly formal), inappropriate social behavior, and difficulties with non-verbal communication. Over the years, not much notice was taken until the 1980s when a doctor in the United Kingdom, Lorna Wing, noticed children with similar characteristics and she named what she saw as Aspergers syndrome. Since then, the disorder was studied more, and in 1994, Asperger syndrome was labeled as an autism spectrum disorder. With that,...
Source: A Hearty Life - November 4, 2009 Category: Nurses Authors: Marijke Durning, RN Tags: Diseases & Conditions asperger syndrome Asperger's Syndrome autism spectrum disorders Hans Asperger Lorna Wing Source Type: blogs

Asperger’s Defense; ASD in Tenn.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Slate’s Erica Westly takes an interesting look at the increasing incidence of Asperger’s as a legal defense, citing the recent headline case of British computer whiz Gary McKinnon, who hacked into almost 100 U.S. government and NASA computers after becoming obsessed with the United States covering up UFO contact. “Criminal defendants in the United States have been using similar tactics with varying degrees of success in recent years,” Westly writes. “In fact, it’s not all that rare for criminal defendants with Asperger’s to argue for leniency in cases of computer fraud, sexual m...
Source: Autism Vox - October 26, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Jeff Stimpson Tags: Asperger's Syndrome Autism Organizations Crime Epidemic Safety tennessee United Kingdom wales Source Type: blogs

Genetics, More Observations from AttwoodEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have uncovered a new genetic signature that correlates strongly with autism and which doesn’t involve changes to the DNA sequence itself, a finding that may suggest new approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Researchers found higher-than-usual numbers of gene-regulating molecules called methyl groups in a region of the genome that regulates oxytocin receptor expression in people with autism. Previous studies have shown that giving oxytocin can improve social engagement behavior and it’s being explored as a potential treatment, and although the methylation status of ...
Source: Autism Vox - October 22, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Jeff Stimpson Tags: Asperger's Syndrome Autism Advocacy Conference Autism Lit Autism Organizations Cause Genetics Duke University Tony Attwood Treatment Source Type: blogs

Great Aspie Presentation!Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I attended the first part of Dr. Tony Atwood’s lecture on Asperger’s and high-functioning autism today in New York, presented by YAI. Though I could only attend the first part of the day-long talk, I’d highly recommend Dr. Atwood as a speaker: clear, humorous, and engaging. In announcing how he had to stop himself for the the morning break, for instance: “The longer you spend living with and working with those with ASDs, the more aspects of an ASD you pick up yourself!” Dr. Tony Atwood (photo courtesy YAI) Atwood, who has worked with Aspies for years and founded a clinic some 17 years ago to...
Source: Autism Vox - October 19, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Jeff Stimpson Tags: Asperger's Syndrome Autism Organizations Intelligence New Jersey new york bullying Tony Atwood YAI Source Type: blogs

What you wantEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I still feel queasy when I remember the words. Children have a certain disempowerment simply because they are young — they are naïve, less learned, and lack perspective. But this transcended childhood. It sank past the boundaries of adult to child, or parent to child, and trampled my self-identity and self-determination. My mom had found a way [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - October 19, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: andrea Tags: Abuse Advocacy Autism/Asperger's inertia Source Type: blogs

The Net: Opinions and TemptationsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Net has certainly let loose the dogs of both support and criticism for some parents of children with ASD. In El Paso, Texas, parents and teachers around the world have chimed in regarding a 10-year-old with boy with Asperger’s who got a ticket for $260 for disrupting class. Students can be ticketed and their parents fined in the state for such actions, and the mom says her son kept falling asleep in class, made noise in the hall, and got down on the floor and refused to get up. She agrees the behavior is not okay and that he should be punished, but she disagrees that this punishment was “suitable” f...
Source: Autism Vox - October 11, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Kori Ellis Tags: Adolescence Airplane Asperger's Syndrome Education Media Safety Teaching Strategies Travel airport security chicago opinions texas Source Type: blogs

Letter in Response to Autism Speaks’ Exploitative PracticeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Autistic Self Advocacy Network and other organizations representing the Cross-Disability Community are distributing this joint letter to the sponsors, donors and supporters of Autism Speaks following the organization’s latest offensive and damaging Public Service Announcement, “I am Autism“. If you are an organization that would like to sign on to the letter, please e-mail ASAN at info@autisticadvocacy.org before Close of Business Tuesday, October 6th, 2009. If you are an individual who would like to join ASAN’s upcoming protests of Autism Speaks in Ohio, New England, New York City and elsewhere...
Source: LBnuke - October 1, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Lori Tags: Autism / Asperger's Source Type: blogs

Friendships and Homework TipsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
UCLA has a class that offers an instruction to ASD teens that’s often lacking from a menu of therapies: How to make friends. The teen years are tough enough, but for those with ASD this time could only be a nightmare in terms of interacting with peers. The UCLA program teaches its 33 students (28 of them male) to watch for all the social clues they might commonly miss — body language, hand gestures, facial expressions, speech inflections — and try to turn those improved interpretations into connections. The class, called PEERS (Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills), involves stu...
Source: Autism Vox - September 29, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Jeff Stimpson Tags: Adolescence Asperger's Syndrome Autism Lit Education Friendship Parenting Teaching Strategies e-newsletters tips UCLA Source Type: blogs

I’m Autistic: Another Awesome Video Response To Autism Speaks’ “I Am Autism”Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Responses to the the Autism Speaks’ “I Am Autism” video have been growing quickly. Here is another awesome video response to the tune of “I Am Woman” by Helen Reddy. More Responses: ABFH has posted a list of video and blog/article responses here. Turner and Kowalski are collecting pictures with captions for their parody video. Send some in! Related posts:Don’t Speak For MeProfessional Frontend Engineering VideoAutism Awareness (Source: LBnuke)
Source: LBnuke - September 27, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Lori Tags: Autism / Asperger's video Source Type: blogs

I’m Autistic: Another Awesome Video Response To Autism Speaks’ “I Am Autism”Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Responses to the the Autism Speaks’ “I Am Autism” video have been growing quickly. Here is another awesome video response to the tune of “I Am Woman” by Helen Reddy. More Responses: ABFH has posted a list of video and blog/article responses here. Turner and Kowalski are collecting pictures with captions for their parody video. Send some in! Related posts:Don’t Speak For MeAutism AwarenessProfessional Frontend Engineering Video (Source: LBnuke)
Source: LBnuke - September 27, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Lori Tags: Autism / Asperger's video Source Type: blogs

iPods, Fuzz, Horses, Ed. TipsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Fraser Child & Family Center in Minneapolis found a new way to reach ASD students: through headphones and iPods. The devices play music and videos to teach these students how to fit in. Fraser staff came up with the idea of programming iPods to act as an electronic substitute for “that missing [inner) voice for those with Asperger's, the voice that governs appropriate behavior. Staff have helped students create short videos and slide shows on how to behave in different social settings: How to carry on a conversation; how to respect other people’s boundaries and think before they speak; and others. The Autis...
Source: Autism Vox - September 27, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Jeff Stimpson Tags: Autism Organizations Education Language Teaching Strategies asperger's iPods minneapolis pdd-nos shaving YAI Source Type: blogs

Don’t Speak For MeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Check out this awesome response to the exceptionally horrible “I Am Autism” video by Autism Speaks. Link leads to Mike Stanton’s Action For Autism blog with video and commentary. This video is just one part of Autism Speaks’ crusade to educate the world about how horrible autistic people are and how they will destroy the happiness of anyone who crosses their path. If you haven’t seen the Autism Speaks video, it is exactly the same as this one except for the audio, which is almost the complete opposite. Lyrics are below. A list of responses to the Autism Speaks video is being compiled at I Spea...
Source: LBnuke - September 24, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Lori Tags: Autism / Asperger's video Source Type: blogs

Through My Eyes, sung by Thanh BuiEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
is an attempt to help people get a handle on what it’s like to live with an autism spectrum disorder. Ordinarily, a song this sweet would make me gag. I admit that in order to listen to it all the way through, my brain started translating it into a thrashier version of itself (in classic rock power ballad style). Personal musical tastes aside, I really liked this song and Thanh Bui’s beautiful voice brought me out of the thrash from time to time. Thanks to Sharon for the link Music by Fiona Johnson. Words by Valerie Foley. Inspiration from the lives of those close to us who live with an ASD. It will be availa...
Source: LBnuke - August 30, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Lori Tags: Autism / Asperger's music video Source Type: blogs

Autism Myths #2 and #10Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This post was inspired by an article written by Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg and published on The Commons. More of Rachel’s writing can be found on her blog, Asperger Journeys. Rachel’s website includes a list of 100 Myths about Autism, and her article focuses on ten of those. After finishing the article, I found my thoughts lingering on myths #2 and #10. Myth #2: Autism is a mental illness. Autism is not a psychological disorder. It is a neurological condition in which the brain and nervous system are highly sensitive to sensory stimuli. When the average person takes in sensory information from the environment, he ...
Source: LBnuke - August 5, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Lori Tags: Autism / Asperger's life ramble Source Type: blogs

Special needs and mobile phones: Why we're starting youngEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In our community neurotypical children begin carrying mobile phones between the ages of 10 and 15. Many parents prefer to defer use of a mobile phone as long as possible.How should cognitive disabilities and special needs affect the timing of first phone use?Since cognitive disorders such as ADHD and autism may limit abilities to use a phone effectively or correctly, one approach would be to delay or defer use. Of course even a child with strong executive functions can lose a phone, so there are strong economic reasons to delay use.We've chosen instead to move the use date forward, to the earliest time that a cognitively d...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - June 14, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: support technology cognition Asperger's ADHD autism Source Type: blogs

The long and short of itEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
It’s going to be a long day; I can tell already. Last night I finally got eight hours of sleep, aside from several prolonged coughing fits. The previous three nights I’d only gotten four hours of sleep. You’d think the extra rest would make me feel better, but I’m still running short on good sleep because [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - June 11, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: andrea Tags: Auditory Processing Disorder Autism/Asperger's Hyperacussis OMG Pain Sleep Teaching/Tutoring Tinnitus Tourette's / tics Source Type: blogs

Weather’s here, wish you were fineEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Summer sucks. I hate the heat, the humidity, the sizzling sun boring into my head, unpeeling my limbs from each other, the restless nights spent searching futilely for a cool spot on the sheets and being sleepless for the lack of the comforting weight of blankets, the lack of appetite, the omnipresent glare, the complete [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - June 1, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: qw88nb88 Tags: Autism/Asperger's Home stuff Rants Raynaud's Phenomenon WTF Weather Source Type: blogs

“All we want are the facts, ma’am.”Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Sergeant Joe Friday of the old American cop show, Dragnet, was famous for asking witnesses — in characteristic deadpan delivery, “All we want are the facts, ma’am.” Sounds good to me. Not just facts (albeit they’re tremendously useful, especially when you have them in variety), but also the focus upon transmitting information, without a lot of [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - May 22, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: qw88nb88 Tags: Autism/Asperger's Communication Work / Employment eye contact Source Type: blogs

Leaving Oakland?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
K and LB @ Slainte Pub in Baltimore Me and K spent the past week in Baltimore and Florida and had a great time. We want to move to Baltimore, but we can’t. It sucks. We decided we wanted to move a few weeks before the economy crashed. Things looked pretty good for us then. Now we are stuck here for what could be a long time. We both love Oakland and the Bay Area, but it is time to go. About 5 years ago, we visited Baltimore and came home thinking about moving there to help out K’s folks with stuff that they have a hard time doing, but that would be easy for us to do. They told us we shouldn’t move because...
Source: LBnuke - May 13, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Lori Tags: Autism / Asperger's Random Travel life Source Type: blogs

Project SpectrumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
was created to give people with autism the opportunity to express their creativity and develop a life skill using Google SketchUp 3D modeling software. This video shows 3D models created by 4 children on the autism spectrum. Three of the models are of the child’s dream house. All are very interesting! Some of the children made paper sketches before trying SketchUp. Narration explains the children’s experience with the software compared to their experience with the paper sketches. I wish there was something like this around when I was a kid! I wonder if it could be used to create 3D mind maps. I have found it ...
Source: LBnuke - May 1, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Lori Tags: Autism / Asperger's video Source Type: blogs

Salon – autism is not a disorderEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Salon has an article on the autism is not a disorder movement, sometimes called the “neurodiversity” movement. I don’t like to surrender the term neurodiversity, so I’ll call this the “autism is ok” movement. We’ve been through this sort of thing a few times. Famously, some deaf people resent the use of nerve implants that diminish the appeal of sign language. On another front lesbians and gay men successfully transformed same gender sexual preference from a disease to a trait. These examples are well known, but there’s a third example that’s been forgotten. In the 1970s it was a fad for a while to consid...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - April 27, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: behavioral therapy brain and mind culture support neurodiversity definition cognition Asperger's autism treatment Source Type: blogs

Project SpectrumEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
was created to give people with autism the opportunity to express their creativity and develop a life skill using Google SketchUp 3D modeling software. This video shows 3D models created by 4 children on the autism spectrum. Three of the models are of the child’s dream house. All are very interesting! Some of the children made paper sketches before trying SketchUp. Narration explains the children’s experience with the software compared to their experience with the paper sketches. I wish there was something like this around when I was a kid! I wonder if it could be used to create 3D mind maps. I have found it ...
Source: LBnuke - April 26, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Lori Tags: Autism / Asperger's video Source Type: blogs

Bee in AspielandEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In February 2006, Karen and I made a comic. Then we got sidetracked for three years. K took the original pictures and I made them into comics in Photoshop. We wrote the story together. This morning we filled in the remaining text and put the images in order. Update: A few people have requested that I put the full size images all on one page for easier viewing on smaller monitors and printing. Click here to view them. Click on the thumbnails to see larger images. To see images at full size, click on the icon (top right of large image). This is the story of Bee in Aspieland… ...
Source: LBnuke - April 24, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Lori Tags: Autism / Asperger's Source Type: blogs

Nicely Non-verbalEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
One of the things I like about garden center work is being able to help people select plants for their different needs, and discuss how to care for them. There are few things more pleasant than being able to share information about one of your special interests with other enthused people. But the other day there [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - April 12, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: qw88nb88 Tags: Autism/Asperger's Coping strategies Gardening Work / Employment Source Type: blogs

Bee in AspielandEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In February 2006, Karen and I made a comic. Then we got sidetracked for three years. K took the original pictures and I made them into comics in Photoshop. We wrote the story together. This morning we filled in the remaining text and put the images in order. Update: A few people have requested that I put the full size images all on one page for easier viewing on smaller monitors and printing. Click here to view them. Click on the thumbnails to see larger images. To see images at full size, click on the icon (top right of large image). This is the story of Bee in Aspieland… ...
Source: LBnuke - April 10, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Lori Tags: Autism / Asperger's Source Type: blogs

World Autism Day & Asperger's SyndromeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A two-dimensional cardboard cut out portrayal, maybe, but valid all the same. I have always been fascinated by Asperger’s Syndrome and of course one of my (literally) guiding lights must surely have had the condition.Now a new blog has been started by a medical student who also has Asperger’s Syndrome. Should be fascinating. I hope he keeps it going . It’s a good time to draw your attention to this new blog as today is World Autism Awareness Day. Did you know that?And on a personal, happy note, an NHS BLOG DOCTOR reader advises me that a new series of Wainwright’s Walks is about to start on the BBC. I did not kno...
Source: NHS Blog Doctor - April 2, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: World Autism Day Asperger's Syndrome Source Type: blogs

Violence and the natural history of Autism - so what do we know?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Ann Bauer has written four stories about her son Andrew July 2005: He's been doing well from age 12 to 17. May 2007: Andrew is 19. She tells us that he was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, and that antipsychotic medications made him violent Mar 2008: She’s struggling, and still feels that the antipsychotic medications are responsible for Andrew’s worsening condition. Mar 2009: Andrew is dangerously violent, and his mother can’t get help in an emergency. From Mar of 2009 (emphases mine) … Ann Bauer on autism, violence | Salon Life... Andrew started life as a mostly typical child. But at 3 and a half he become...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - March 26, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Explosive Child brain and mind diagnostic definition research Asperger's autism Source Type: blogs

Math fact drills for an Asperger's child - two excellent solutionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
B2A (boy #2 with many great features and also Aperger's) does well enough at school, but very poorly on timed math tests. He basically seizes up.There are three obvious contributors. The first is that his working memory could be better. Perhaps related to that, he dislikes memorization tasks (two traits I share). Lastly, he has an uneasy relationship with time and especially with timers.Since computer time is a positive reinforcer for him we tried some computer based math exercises. First I went to the web, where I was again reminded of an old unsolved business problem. We have yet to figure out a way to deliver quality we...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - March 14, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: education Asperger's Source Type: blogs

Teaching perseveranceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We haven't figured out even half the answers for #1, but we're in a bit of a pause. Familiar patterns, familiar problems, familiar management.On the other hand, #2 is raising new questions. He's fairly "classic" Asperger's (which is a bit like saying someone is a "jock", meaning there's a lot of latitude in there), and has a typically low tolerance for challenges.Some people seek out the hard stuff, because they enjoy the struggle for mastery. The easy stuff isn't interesting.He's not like that.If something's not fairly easy, he doesn't like it. Struggle is not his thing. Perseverance is illogical.That's not a recipe for l...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - March 9, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: behavioral therapy Asperger's Source Type: blogs

Piques and ValleysEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
So, I’ve been rather absent from bloggery lately due to spending evenings sorting through vast boxes of paper archives, moving books, applying for jobs to keep a roof over our heads, or attempting to sleep off this virus. I now have removed a cubic meter of paperness from our house, and transferred a few hundred [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - February 25, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: qw88nb88 Tags: Autism/Asperger's OMG Parenting Physical impairments Teaching/Tutoring Work / Employment advocacy behaviour management hate groups inclusiveness Source Type: blogs

A Special Needs Girl with a Special Need to Kick Some AssEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Chocolate, from Magnet Releasing, is a martial arts film from Thailand coming to theaters on Feb. 6th, 2009, and DVD Feb. 10th. Directed by Prachya Pinkaew, this sweet, action-packed martial-arts drama features the debut of young female fighter Jeeja Yanin Vismitananda as Zen, an autistic savant who learns to kick heads by watching Bruce Lee and Tony Jaa movies. Zen’s father, a Japanese gangster, has been driven out of the country by a rival Thai gang, so her mother has been forced to raise her alone. When her mother becomes sick, Zen goes on a candy-fueled rampage to collect debts from the corrupt gangsters that ow...
Source: LBnuke - February 7, 2009 Category: Autism Authors: Lori Tags: Autism / Asperger's martial arts video Source Type: blogs

Requesting your thoughts, pleaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Howdy folks, This morning I’m again in pain and rather stiff. I know that many of you have rather specialised knowledge, and would appreciate your thoughts on getting diagnostics. I have a number of conditions, both common and uncommon, including Raynaud’s, migraines, cough-variant asthma, tinnitus & hyperacussis and Auditory Processing Disorder, motor tics, and assorted neurological glitches [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - February 7, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: qw88nb88 Tags: Arthritis Auditory Processing Disorder Autism/Asperger's Coping strategies Doctors Hypermobility Menopause Pain Proprioception TMJ Tinnitus Tourette's / tics epidemiology hyperacussis migraine Source Type: blogs

Being remote / mis-emotingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
“What’s the matter?” “Nothing.” “No, tell me.” “Nothing.“ “Seriously, what’s wrong?” “NOTHING’S wrong; I’m just working on this article.” “Well you don’t have to be so rude.” “I wasn’t — I’m just trying to work already.” Apparently I don’t always “emote” (physically express my emotional state) the way people expect me to. Apparently my “thinking” face looks like a scowl. “Are you annoyed with [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - February 2, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: qw88nb88 Tags: Autism/Asperger's Family non-verbal communication Source Type: blogs

Graduation from the Lego School of occupational therapyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The 7 yo had problems with planning, spatial orientation, sequencing and fine motor manipulatives.He also disliked occupational therapy.On the other hand, he liked the idea of working with Lego, even though he couldn't complete the simplest project. So we enrolled him in the Lego school of occupational therapy. Heck, it was vastly cheaper anyway.We've been working on our Lego projects for a bit over 2 years now. At first I did everything but push the piece into place. Then I would select the piece and orient the target and the piece, silently pointing out where it ought to go. Then I'd select a piece and point to the diagr...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - February 1, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: brain and mind cognition Asperger's therapy treatment Source Type: blogs

Holding a catEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Random thought: Holding a baby is good camouflage for rocking while standing or sitting. Cats are less useful. (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - January 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: qw88nb88 Tags: Autism/Asperger's Cats Coping strategies Random Thoughts Source Type: blogs

Family TraditionsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
My daughter and son had a long conversation the other day. They knew what they were talking about, within this twin-like patois built upon years of shared jokes. It made sense to them, for all that anyone else would have found the banter of movie and TV quotes to be strings of non-sequitors. “You know, the [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - January 27, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: qw88nb88 Tags: Autism/Asperger's Communication Coping strategies Family Source Type: blogs

You Can’tEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(These quotes are real, at least to the gist of what was told me.) “You can’t — no, no whining! You just sit here next to me and wait quietly for the doctor. You are NOT going to bother people by grabbing all the magazines and lining them up on the floor. Don’t even ask ‘why’ [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - January 26, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: qw88nb88 Tags: Autism/Asperger's abuse advocacy Source Type: blogs

Autism Society of America has lost our donations – anti-Vaccine madnessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The ASA has turned from the best available science. There are no roads on the trackless wasteland they’re traveling now (emphases mine) … Autism Society of America: research_envirohealth_vaccines Individuals living with autism need help today. There is a clear and present need for the government, scientific, medical and autism communities to probe further into all possible environmental causes of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in a fair, unbiased and thorough way, particularly because findings may help us approach treatment and prevention more effectively. Research needs include, but are not limited to, research in...
Source: Be the Best You can Be - January 25, 2009 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: brain and mind research etiology Asperger's therapy autism treatment Source Type: blogs

The problem with high IQEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I have recently been reading Malcolm Gladwell’s new bookOutliers: The Story of SuccessI have to say that I found a lot of it irritating as I thought his arguments were very polemic and with lots of flaws, although he is a great storyteller and writer. There are however, two interesting chapters on high IQ in the book. As a neuropsychologist who assesses IQ, I sometimes get people telling me that they or their children have very high IQ’s normally over 150 and sometimes over 200. I am never sure when this comes from as on the most commonly used test of IQ in the US and UK, the Wechsler scales, the highest IQ...
Source: Child Neuropsychology - January 16, 2009 Category: Neurologists Authors: Jonathan Tags: IQ Uncategorized asperger's malcolm gladwell Source Type: blogs

You just don’t get itEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A few summers ago, right in the middle of my graduate programme, I was hit with Mono and Lyme. Taking a shower was exhausting. I kept falling asleep in statistics classes, and in the lab where I tried to work. Putting thoughts together in any of my research analysis or writing, or even learning new [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - January 13, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: qw88nb88 Tags: Autism/Asperger's Communication DSM attribution errors Source Type: blogs

With a price tag like that, you know it’s what’s bestEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Would you pay more for name-brand headache medicine than the generic or store brand? If your budget is like mine, probably not; after all, the tablets are the same, it’s just the packaging that’s different. But on the flip side, what if your favorite practitioner recommends an expensive treatment that will help you or your loved [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - January 3, 2009 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: qw88nb88 Tags: ADD/ADHD Autism/Asperger's Medical Quackery attribution errors Source Type: blogs

The return of RudolphEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Because I’m up to my tuchis here getting ready to prepare the chicken tamales, baklava, mince tarts, potato latkes and whatnot, here’s a re-run of a holiday-oriented classic post (from 2006): TODAY’S QUOTE: “Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” ~Albert Camus There’s a newsclip kicking around the Web, from the CBS Evening News [...] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - December 24, 2008 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: qw88nb88 Tags: Autism/Asperger's Community advocacy inclusiveness paradigms Source Type: blogs

ShutdownEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
I was reading an article called “Shutdown: A Specific Type of Meltdown” written by Gavin Bollard this morning. Shutdown is a pretty hard thing to put into words, but he did a pretty good job of it. Technically, there aren’t too many differences between meltdowns and shutdowns. Both are extreme reactions to everyday stimuli. … While a meltdown could be described as rage against a situation, a [shutdown] tends to be more of a retreat. Shutdown and meltdown have always had the same meaning in my mind, the only difference being one of intensity. Gavin describes them as two separate things. I can kind of...
Source: LBnuke - December 24, 2008 Category: Autism Authors: Lori Tags: Autism / Asperger's life ramble Source Type: blogs

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The Florida legislature has declared the first half of October as Disability History and Awareness Weeks, today’s West Volusia Beacon notes. Indeed, the legislature is said to be “trying to change the negative image, perception and treatment of people with disabilities.” The article highlights programs for disabled students throughout the county, such as Deltona High School’s Multi-VE program. VE stands for varying exceptionalities. Multi-VE students’ disabilities and challenges include hearing or language impairments, mental handicaps, emotional and behavioral disorders, multiple physical ha...
Source: Autism Vox - December 20, 2008 Category: Autism Authors: Kristina Chew, PhD Tags: Disability Rights Education Work asd Asperger's Syndrome autism autism blog children deltona disabilities disabilities blog florida New Jersey pdd-nos special education Source Type: blogs