Many in the Neurodiversity cult, which irrationally embraces and worships the autism segment of the autism disorder diagnosis they sought for themselves, or their children, while discarding the DISORDER component…
Thank You Suzanne Wright! It was a good week for reality based autism advocacy for two reasons. First, I was very encouraged by Suzanne Wright’s very honest description of the…
Research to date benefiting persons suffering from autism disorders can be summed up in two words: Lovaas, ABA. The work done by Dr. Ivar Lovaas has been applied successfully for…
As the father of a 17 year old young man with severe autism, intellectual disability and epileptic seizures I am very happy to read that 15 year old autistic boy…
Autism parents, and some supporters, conducted protests in front of the Centracare pyschiatric hospital in Saint John 10 years ago advocating for better, autism spectific, care for a man with…
In May 2007 I commented on this site about the abysmal state of Youth and Adult Residential Care in New Brunswick. That commentary included the October 2005 article by then…
Conor Doherty sporting a big smile after a quick tickle shave adventure with Dad this morning Many famous “autistics” were not diagnosed until they were adults and have turned their…
In Canada October is our official Autism Awareness month. That is not as widely known as it might be for a number of reasons including the fact that we live…
Autism Speaks continues its betrayal of the 50% of persons on the autism spectrum, those with intellectual disability, those for whom autism is a disorder not a superior way of…
The Chalmers Foundation has officially announced that it has met its funding goal and will soon be purchasing the patient monitoring system that is instrumental in helping the Chalmers Hospital…
Autism Speaks has entered into a Research PACT to continue its focus on “pure autism” (referred to in the PACT as core symptom autism), while ignoring 50% of the autism…
Since my 17 year old son was diagnosed with autistic disorder and profound developmental delays (and more recently, like many who share those conditions, with epileptic seizures) little has been…
During recent weeks the TPGA “autism experts”, have done a great favor to children, like my son, who suffer from severe autism disorders. The TPGA autism wizards told parents like…
The Autism Action Network reports, in It started: DSM5 used to revoke autism diagnosis, that the revoking of autism diagnoses under the DSM5 regime and the resulting denial of services…
Laverne Stewart of Fredericton’s Daily Gleaner reports (September 24, 2013) that National autism advocate Senator Jim Munson, shown left in his Parliament of Canada photo, is frustrated, that after years…
Questions and answers about autism spectrum disorders (ASD) Online Q&ASeptember 2013 Q: Do persons with autism always suffer from intellectual disability? A: The level of intellectual functioning is extremely variable…
October is Autism Awareness Month in Canada. You would never know it based on the contribution made by Canada’s federal government which has taken a strict, division of constitutional jurisdiction,…
I have never read or heard any parent of a severely autistic child excuse the murder of severely autistic children by a parent. The only people who make this allegation…
“Dr. Lynn Waterhouse @autismideasfail 6 Sep http://bit.ly/17WbZVi #autism gene AUTS2 tied to dyslexia ADHD epilepsy ID motor delay microcephaly MORE SYMPTOMS should be part of ASD DX” The above Tweet…
“Ginger Taylor commented on the pressures on families with autism and on the greatest fear of many parents of autistic children: “That is the big question — what happens to…
