Tag: autism disorders

Surely, of all the dangers that confront many autistic children the simplest danger to eradicate, the one that doesn’t have to exist,  is the danger of an autistic child being left alone on a school bus, van or other vehicle while parked in scorching heat or while it departs for

The Bricks and Mortar Office of the Ombudsman 548 York Street, Fredericton,New Brunswick, at the Staying Connected consultations, in which I participated, Ombudsman Bernard Richard and NBACL President Clarence Box both dismissed Long Term Residential Care and Treatment Facilities for Autistic Youth and Adults as “Bricks and Mortar Solutions” The

Run, Jump, Fly Boy 2007 Run, Jump, Fly Boy 2011 There are many news reports concerning possible connections between obesity and medications prescribed for children and adults with autism and other developmental disorder.  Those reports help stiffen our resolve to avoid medications for our autistic son Conor, our Run, Jump,

The following information is taken from a July, 2011 information update on the Health Canada web site. It indicates that recent studies have found that “children whose mothers took a valproate drug tend to score lower on cognitive (intelligence) tests than children whose mothers who took other anti-epileptic medications during

Photo from Nature Magazine, November 2 2011,  Shows High Functioning Autistic,  Researcher and Anti-ABA Activist* Michelle Dawson and High Functioning  Autism Expert  and Anti-ABA Activist* Dr. Laurent Mottron It may seem surprising to some to learn that Michelle Dawson, the central image of the “Autism is an Advantage” campaign of  high functioning autism researcher