The Ombudsman and the community living bureaucracy in New Brunswick can Connect all The Dots and hold as many cheer leading sessions as they want but none of them have…
The abstract following is for the article Testing the Construct Validity of Proposed Criteria for DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder, authors William P.L. Mandy, D.Clin.Psy., Tony Charman, Ph.D., David H. Skuse,…
One of the great DSM-5 puzzles to this father of a severely autistic son is the use of the label Autism Spectrum Disorder to describe what appears to be little…
FOX News has published a report, Some Experts Worried Over Revised Autism Guidelines, in which two autism experts, Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist and Fox News contributor, and Dr. Thomas…
My children have received their recommended vaccinations. I have had some although I am old enough that I received my measles and mumps shots the old fashioned way … I…
Amy Harmon and the New York Times like their autism fluffy and lite, none of that yucky severe autistic disorder stuff You wouldn’t know it from reading NY Times columnist…
Conor Doherty, one of Autism’s Vast Majority of Invisible Autistics, brings joy to Mom and Dad in the Christmas season and throughout the Year. My 2011 Christmas wish is that…
Joachim Hallmayer MD, Stanford University Following is the press release I received setting out what Autism Speaks considers to be the top 10 autism research achievements of 2011. Personally I…
Dr.Everett Chalmers Hospital, Fredericton, New Brunswick One of the many controversies that mark discussions of autism disorders is the question of functioning levels. Some high functioning persons with autism and…
Please visit the top space on the sidebar and vote for your favorite work(s) of autism fiction in the Autism Fiction Award 2011 poll. The nominees, as objectively selected by…
The photos that follow show my walk from my home to my office in beautiful Fredericton, New Brunswick a place I am happy to call home, a place that allows…
The LA Times has written an ill informed, one sided, article on autism increases which misleads the public into believing that the evidence has clearly established that the entire increase…
In Colorado the prosecution has announced that it will not pursue charges against a woman who killed her child because she feared that her child was autistic. Unfortunately some in…
Discrimination against persons with low functioning autism disorders takes many forms. It is particularly rampant in the autism research world where studies purporting to inform us about autism almost invariably…
Dr. Allen Frances, chair of the DSM-IV Task Force and principle investigator on the DSM-IV Field Trials The last major changes to the “autism section” of the DSM occurred in…
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…
David Suzuki in Fredericton Photo by Charles LeBlanc When David Suzuki speaks people listen as shown in this photo by New Brunswick blogger Charles LeBlanc taken in the United Church…
Dr. Ivy Chong, Florida Institute of Technology It seems to be impossible for anyone connected with the Mainstream Media, the MSM, to speak honestly and accurately about the natue of…
Break The Autism Taboo Taboos, of autism and parenting at Ramblings of a Stone Age Queen is one of the best commentaries I have read about the realities of parenting…
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…
