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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
