New Brunswick’s Gordon Porter and his associates with the NB Association for Community Living are now in charge of New Brunswick’s inclusive education system. The Gordon Porter Inclusive Education Review taking place in New Brunswick will impose their beliefs on NB students with disabilities including those with severe, complex disorders
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Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Learning Disabilities Associations (Canada, Ontario) Do Not Support the Porter/NBACL Full Inclusion Model
During the MacKay Inclusion Review the Autism Society of New Brunswick opposed the full or extreme inclusion model which Gordon Porter and the NBACL is now in the process of again imposing on New Brunswick students. I have commented many times expressing my personal opposition to the inflexible full inclusion
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Education in the Era of the NBACL Inclusion Government
Premier Alward of New Brunswick acknowledges IRIS’ ‘Policy Making for Inclusion – Leadership Development Program’ The New Brunswick Association of Community Living now determines inclusion and disabilities policies in the New Brunswick government with immediate repercussions in the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development … to the detriment of many
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: CBC: Autism advocate questions ‘extreme’ inclusion model
The caption below the picture of me and Conor is from the CBC web site article Autism advocate questions ‘extreme’ inclusion model. “A high-profile autism advocate in New Brunswick is questioning the merits of what he calls the Department of Education’s extreme inclusion model. “I believe that the kind of
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism and Extreme Inclusion: I Challenge You Gordon Porter To A Public Debate Of Your Extreme Inclusion Beliefs
Evidence Extreme Inclusion Advocates Ignore Dr. Gordon Porter was one of the members of NB Premier David Alward’s post election transition team of special advisers. Unfortunately for many NB students with severe autism deficits he has continued to act as a special adviser to both Premier Alward and Education and
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: We Are Fine Enough: A Mother’s Story of Her Son and His Severe Autism Realities
We Are Fine Enough, the video embedded below, is a moving and honest account of Charlie and his severe autism and cognitive impairment. The story is told through the narrative of his mother Cynthia Bartlett, who lives with Charlie here in New Brunswick, and photos taken over an extended period
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: OOLAID: Conor’s Autism Challenges, Sense of Humor and Progress
I was doing some work at home the other day and was looking for a notebook to record some information. I found the one pictured above with the word OOLAID in Conor’s hand printed on the back cover. OOLAID is a sign of some of the challenges Conor faces by
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Rates Reach New Epidemic Levels? Round Up the Usual Suspects!
“The usual suspects The people habitually suspected or arrested in response to a crime. The phrase is usually used in regard to scapegoats rather than actual perpetrators of the crime in question. This expression has a specific and unambiguous origin. It was spoken by Captain Louis Renault, the French prefect
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Canada’s Autism Epidemic? To Start With We Have to Use American Numbers 1in 88 Children, 1 in 54 Boys
The CDC in the US has released new numbers on the autism epidemic in the US. It now estimates that 1in 88 children (1 in 54 boys) have an autism disorder. There are no known, reliable estimates available for Canada which has not updated its autism estimates in several years.
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: AUTISM SPEAKS Demands An Urgent, New Response To The Autism Epidemic As CDC Updates Prevalence Estimates
1 in 88 Children; 1 in 54 Boys AUTISM SPEAKS DEMANDS AN URGENT, NEW RESPONSE TO THE AUTISM EPIDEMIC AS CDC UPDATES PREVALENCE ESTIMATES Population of People with Autism and Cost to Society Continue to Skyrocket A National Public Health Crisis Requires a National Strategy NEW YORK, N.Y. (March 29,
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Facing Autism in New Brunswick 2012-03-29 08:25:00
NOTE: The information in this Autism Speaks news release is based on the current US estimate of 1 in 110 persons having an autism disorder. New autism prevalence information will be made publicly available by CDC very shortly which is expected to indicate a substantially higher rate of autism prevalence.
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Research Bias and the DSM-5 Autism Do-Over Exclusion of Those with Intellectual Disabilities
Why has the APA decided that the DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder should eliminate or substantially reduce the numbers of persons with ASD who are intellectually disabled? The removal from an ASD diagnosis of persons with ID will be accomplished by the express wording of Mandatory Criterion A of the
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Society NB Meeting Was A Huge Success!
After the Meeting: Time for Some Chat Kim McKeigan Liz McDonnell Lila Barry Harold Doherty Ricky Barry Brent Barry Ricky Barry Harold Doherty It was great having Ricky at the meeting, a smart young man who made some good points Good turnout at the ASNB meeting yesterday despite the flooding
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: US Federal Judge: ABA Proven and Highly Effective Treatment of Children with Autism
It is hard to believe that in 2012 a government agency with responsibilities for the provision or administration of health care could take the position that ABA is an “unproven” treatment for autism. That was the justification though of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration in refusing to provide
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Erosion of New Brunswick’s Autism Gains: We Can’t Just Stand By and Let It Happen!
New Brunswick made substantial progress in providing services to autistic pre-schoolers and students over the previous 10 years. Those gains are now being eroded. Eroded may be to gentle a way to describe what is happening. Those gains are being dismantled completely. The basis for the gains made in
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Heartless Canada Does It Again – Rejecting Another Immigrant Family Because of Son with Autism
Image by Kaz Novak, The Hamilton Spectator An immigrant South Korean family, Sungsoo Kim, wife Sunmi Kim, daughter Lisa and son Taehoon, have been living in Canada for the past 9 years. A permanent residency application has been rejected by Canadian officials because the 12 year old son is autistic. He received
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Foundation of New Brunswick Autism Success Is Being Abandoned
New Brunswick, Canada, like most jurisdictions, has some gaping holes in respect of autism services delivery. But there have also been some significant successes due largely to the UNB-CEL Autism Intervention Training Program and Dr. Paul McDonnell who was a leading force in the establishment of the UNB-CEL AIT Program.
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Justice? Severe Adult Autism Reality In California
Kim Oakley author of Autism, Epilepsy and Self-Injurious Behavior has broken the autism feel good cliche glass, again, in No Justice for Severely-Autistic Adult in California a comment about Van Ingraham “a severely- autistic man who had his neck broken in 2006, while living at Fairview Hospital, one of California’s Developmental Center’s
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Robocall Misdirecton Campaigns Are A Threat To Canadian Democracy
Robocall misdirection campaigns are a threat to Canadian Democracy. Please email your Member of Parliament and ask him or her to take all necessary steps to investigate and prevent future assaults on our democratic freedom. The federal government web site linked below will provide your MP email address by entering
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism, Intellectual Disability & Environment: Children of Immigrants in Sweden At Greater Risk of Developing Autism with Intellectual Disability
Swedish Flag by Matti Mattila A major Swedish study offers uncomfortable news to the DSM-5 team trying to pretend there is no relationship between autism and the intellectual disability which affects the vast majority of those with classic Autistic Disorder. It will also be disconcerting to those who devoutly believe
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