Childhood Obesity And Parental Responsibility: Not As Easy As Some Would Have It
Huffington Post has a piece up on whether parents of obese children are in denial. Of course, the comments are typical for Huff; there are the usual close-minded asses who assume that all obesity is a...
View ArticleABC Investigates Facilitated Communication And The Wendrow Case
In the autism community, there are plenty of heated opinions, which lead to even more heated attacks against those who believe differently. Some of the fiercest attacks come from those who believe in...
View ArticlePeter Bell's Appointment To The President's Council For People With...
On January 10, 2012, President Obama announced appointments to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities.read more
View ArticleBook Review: Cindy Ariel's Loving Someone With Asperger's Syndrome
Part guidebook, part workbook, Ariel's book for neurotypical partners is sure to be considered a boon for spouses who know almost nothing about Asperger's Syndrome. Written by Cindy Ariel, a licensed...
View ArticleToo Good To Be True: Facebook As A Medium To Spread Pseudoscience
We engage in wishful thinking all the time. Infomercials continue to exist because people continue to buy the products. Diet pills fly off the shelves because we want an easy fix. The HCG diet is...
View ArticleThis Is The Song That Never Ends: Facilitated Communication
Yesterday, I wrote a post about how facebook is a rapid, easy way to spread misinformation and pseudoscience, and the difficulties in figuring out how to respond to pseudoscience when you see it. I...
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Eileen Riley-Hall’s Parenting Girls On The Autism Spectrum
As almost every parent of an autistic child knows, there is no shortage of books out there on autism, but true gems are rare. Eileen Riley-Hall’s new bookParenting Girls on the Autism Spectrum is just...
View ArticleVideo Of Judge Rotenberg Center Shocking: What More Do People Need To See?
Men and women of good conscience cannot sit silently by and allow these things to happen. This is abuse and torture and, still, people support these. Still the Massachusett's State House supports it....
View ArticleAutism Speaks Issues Statement Concerning Judge Rotenberg Center
On March 22, I called on Autism Speaks and the Autism Society of America to stand up against the abuse, restraint and torture occurring at the Judge Rotenberg Center. Today, I received an official...
View ArticleAutism Society Issues Statement Regarding The Judge Rotenberg Center
The Judge Rotenberg Center is on trial, legally, for negligence in the 31 shocks and hours of restraint that Andre McCollins suffered at the hands of JRC staff and in the court of public opinion,...
View ArticleJudge Rotenberg Trial Ends In Settlement: Nothing Changes For The JRC, Though
Although the jury had the case, the Judge Rotenberg Center settled with Andre McCollins' mother yesterday. Fox 25 News in Boston has covered this case diligently, and its article about the settlement...
View ArticleNARPAA: Official Statement On Judge Rotenberg Center
Steven Muller, President of The National Association of Residential Providers for Adults with Autism has released the following statement regarding the Judge Rotenberg Center:The video of staff at the...
View ArticlePetition To The MA State Senate On The Judge Rotenberg Center.
Gregory Miller, a former JRC employee, has set up a petition on Change.org, and given permission to repost his petition letter:read more
View ArticleA Primer On "Tribal Science": An Easy Read On Why We Believe As We Do
Mike McRae's Tribal Science: Brains, Beliefs, and Bad Ideas is short, sweet, often humorous and to the point. It's also pithy and full of quote-worthy sentences:"Since most of the face-like patterns...
View ArticleAutism, Autism Speaks, And The True Stakeholders
Autism isn't a four letter word in our house. It's not something we treat with kid gloves, not something we see as a tragedy or, in our kids' case, in need of a cure. We see it as something to be...
View ArticleSensory Integration Therapy Not Scientifically Validated: Not New News
It seems like there's always something to be mad at or feel threatened over when it comes to autism-related reporting or blogging. Sometimes it's reasonable outrage, like an article on autism that...
View ArticleWhen Kids Need Meds: A Must Have For Parents Of Special Needs Kids
Parents of children with neurological conditions and disorders and mental health issues are often faced with the frightening and difficult decision of whether to medicate for specific issues and...
View ArticlePerson-First Language Police: Behind The Times
Miss Wombles,1. Person first language. Learn about it. This is the first clue that indicates to me that you are not equipped to have this type of discussion. --part of a new comment on a two-year-old...
View ArticleHumble's Miracle Industrial Bleach: MMS Will Heal Autism And Everything Else,...
Bloggers like Orac (his first post, his second post, his third post), Emily Willingham, Autismum and others have covered Autism One's latest quack cure, MMS, in detail.read more
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