The Restigouche Regional Hospital in northwestern New Brunswickis home for some of our adults with autism disorders
In Autism resources in N.B. are a ‘patchwork system’ Jacques Gallant of the Times & Transcript has reported on the state of autism servi…
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Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Maeng Family and Son with Autism Will Not be Deported from Canada!
VIKTOR PIVOVAROV/TIMES & TRANSCRIPT
The deportation order for the Maeng family of Moncton New Brunswick, Canada has been rescinded. The family is no longer facing deportation because of their son’s autism and epilepsy. The federal government resc…
Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Minister Jason Kenney In Response to Don Davies Question About Maeng Family Deportation
The Honourable Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney commented generally in reply to Vancouver Kingsway MP Don Davies’ specific concerns about the Maeng family deportation. The Maeng family has lived in NB for several years and have be…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Don Davies, MP Vancouver Kingsway, Stands Up for Moncton’s Maeng Family
Yes a member of Parliament has spoken up in the House of Commons on behalf of the Maeng family, the Korean family, residents of Moncton New Brunswick for several years, and contributing members of that community, who are facing imminent deportation b…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Study Finds Positive Association Between Autism and Vaccines
A recent (Online publication date: 26 May 2011) study published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health reports ,as set out in the report title, that a positive association has been found between autism and vaccines: A Positive Associa…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Woe Canada! More Canadian Shame as South Korean Family In Moncton Forced to Leave Canada Because of Son’s Autism and Epilepsy
VIKTOR PIVOVAROV/TIMES & TRANSCRIPT
Canada’s shameful and dishonorable conduct towards families and children with autism and other disabilities continues with the forced expulsion of a South Korean family because one of their son’s suffers from autism…
Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Metro – Vancouver : Video : No place to go: Caring for the mentally disabled
This heart wrenching video is the latest in a series by Michael Tutton of the CP exploring Canada’s lack of decent, appropriate residential care for mentally disabled adults including people with autism disorders, downs and other intellectual disabilit…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Adult Autism Residential Care: Close the Institutions But First Provide An Alternative
My younger son Conor is 15. He is not a very high functioning, celebrity “autie” or “aspie”. My son actually has an Autistic Disorder with “profound developmental delays”. He is living a great life now, at home, with a Mom and Dad, who take i…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Kung Fu Panda 2, Trail Walking and Conor’s Autism Progress
Conor Enjoyed Watching Kung Fu Panda 2 in 3D … and so did Mom and Dad
In the early evening Conor and Dad got some fresh air and
enjoyed the view on a trail walk along the St. John River
Yesterday was a great outdoors day for Conor with long …
Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Dear USA: This Canadian Father With a Severely Autistic Son Says Thank You for Combating Autism
“in order to continue meeting the needs of people with autism, the Combating Autism Act
must be fully reauthorized. We still have a long way to go. Working collaboratively with
important partners, the Affordable Care Act and the Combating Autism Act wi…
Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Medical Model of Autism Embraced by Neurodiversity Blogger Kev Leitch?
– Comment by Neurodiversity Blogger Kev Leitch of LBRB on the recent paper indicating that children have been compensated for what, based on an analysis of the symptoms, appear to have been autism disorders.
Neurodiversity, to the extent that it has …
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Asperger’s is the New Autism: No Intellectually Disabled Allowed in the DSM-5’s New Autism Spectrum Disorder
“the autism umbrella has since widened to include milder forms, says Dr. Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp, a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For example, it now includes Asperger syndrome, where the sufferer is social…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Killarney Lake Autism Therapy? No, Just Fun for Conor and Dad
I am sure that riding horses in Mongolia would be fun, and would probably help sell some books and other nifty promotions, but I don’ think such an adventure would qualify as an autism therapy. Yesterday, here in Fredericton, New Brunswick, the weath…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Can End Lives: Wandering and Drowning
Those who don’t believe that autism can be a deadly disorder, who believe that wandering from home and drowning is not a problem that should be associated with autism, will want to skip reports of yet another death by drowning of an autistic child …
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Low Functioning Autistic Persons Remain Invisible on CNN and in the DSM-5’s New Autism Spectrum Disorder
Elizabeth Landau, a CNN Health writer/producer, mentions briefly the DSM-5’s New Autism Spectrum Disorder, in a report on the organizational changes in the DSM-5 in Psychiatry ‘bible’ structure overhauled. Ms. Landau’s discussion of changes in the DSM…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: You Want Some Autism Awareness? Autism Is A Disorder, Autism Can Restrict Lives, Autism Can End Lives
The site where Adam Benhamama’s body was found Tuesday, several kilometres downstream from where police believe he fell into the water in early April. (Elias Abboud/CBC)
Two incidents in recent days have driven home, once again, for Canad…
Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Should Grinker and Co’s Flawed South Korean Autism Study be Taken Seriously?
The newly reported autism study from South Korea with its “shocking” 1 in 38 autism rates figure doesn’t make much sense. As reported in the Boston Globe:
“Roy Richard Grinker, a cultural anthropologist at George Washington University who worked on …
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Wheeling & Dealing & Avoiding FDA Scrutiny at the Vaccine Business Industry (Big Pharma) Congress
The vaccine industry business congress referenced above states that it is scheduled for Baltimore in the fall of 2011 although the agenda indicates dates in March 2011. More significantly the first items on the agenda show clearly the priorities…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Research After the DSM5? At Least Grinker Will Be Happy
Will the DSM5 render meaningless all autism research to date? Will the DSM5 make it impossible to determine whether autism disorders are increasing or whether they are triggered or caused by environmental factors? The odds are good, given the diffi…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism and the Stigma of Intellectual Disability: Some CDC Facts
CDC: Intelligence quotient (IQ) of children aged 8 years with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) for whom psychometric test data were available,* by site and sex (IQ) score-Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, 11 sites, United St…
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