Stephanie of Autism and Oughtisms has posted a guest comment on the site Teaching the Teachers, Educating an Autistic Child is an Opportunity, in which, like many other parents and professionals, she includes a commentary which distances autism d…
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Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Terrific Autism News: Missing Severely Autistic Man Found Safe in Toronto
A 29 year old Toronto man with Autism has been found safe and sound. 680 Toronto News All News Radio reports that Gyafi Payne is described as having the “mental capacity of a five year old”. He had gone missing around 7:30 pm Saturday. &nbs…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: High Functioning Autism fMRI Brain Scan Study Misrepresented to the Public
“research in ASD has tended to use overwhelmingly White, middle to upper middle class samples, and has often excluded children with multiple disabilities and/or severe to profound intellectual disabilities”. [underlining added – H…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: DSM-5 Autism Shell Game
WordNet Dictionary
Noun1.shell game – a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under
Synonyms: thimblerig
The DSM-5 treatm…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: When I Can No Longer Walk With Conor
My buddy, Conor, 15One thing about which I have no regrets is the time I have spent with my sons and, in the context of autism and this blog, my time with my 15 year old severely autistic son Conor. Many years ago I vowed to do whatever I …
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Cure Autism? Absolutely!
Autism is a disorder. We need to find a cure, or cures, for autism disorders.
These simple points seem to escape those who perversely find joy in the fact that a child has an autism disorder. Equally irrational is the notion that society need not find…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: TIME Promotes Myth That Many With Autism are Highly Intelligent
In Could Amanda Knox Have an Autism Spectrum Disorder? TIME adds its influential voice to those who propagate the myth that “many with autism are highly intelligent”.
Amanda Knox is the 23-year-old American college student who was convicted of…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Blaming Parents: Autism Families Torn Apart by Ignorance
Families with autistic children, parents who love their autistic children dearly, must endure much in order to live a normal life with their children, to be happy with their children to see them grow and develop to the best of their abilities n…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Kim Oakley: Medical mysteries, autism and chronic self-injurious behavior
One of the blogs I follow, and list on the side bar of this blog, is Autism, Epilepsy and Self-Injurious Behavior by Kim Oakley. A couple of days ago Kim Oakley wrote on the subject of Medical mysteries, autism and chronic self-injurious behavi…
Continue readingFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Research: Which "Autism" Is Being Studied?
Neuron, Cover Page, 23 June, 2011 Volume 70, Issue 6
The abstract for the study Disrupted Neural Synchronization in Toddlers with Autism, reported in the current issue of Neuron, indicates that autism is tied to disrupted cortical synchronizatio…
Facing 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
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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: 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: 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: 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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