As stated on the Autism Speaks website on May 23, 2014: “Today the World Health Assembly adopted a formal resolution making autism a global health priority. The assembly is the…
Conor had a lot of fun at the Leo Hayes HS Resource Centre Fun Run yesterday. I loved these pictures taken by Leo Hayes Resource Teacher Tanya McBride. Ms McBride…
CNN which loves to portray high functioning autism and Aspergers as autism has done it again with a feature called “Autism Is Growing Up” which … of course … features…
The picture above, as well as the italicized text below are from the CBC article Mother threatens to leave disabled daughter at minister’s office. In essence the mother Linda Murphy…
Dear Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford, as the father of a son with severe autism disorder, my son Conor pictured above, I want to reassure you that you needn’t be…
Is Toronto City Councillor Doug Ford so contemptible as to verbally attack autistic children residing at a home for children with autism? con·tempt·ible adjective \kən-ˈtem(p)-tə-bəl\ : not worthy of respect…
An article in the January 13, 2014 issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal, Autism spectrum disorder: advances in evidence-based practice, confirms what American authorities have told us for decades,…
“This survey marks an important opportunity for parents, individuals with ASD and professionals in the autism field to serve notice to our federal government that a national autism strategy is…
After a long tough winter followed by some high waters along the St John River it is nice to be able to again walk Fredericton’s North Riverfront Trail, barely a…
The Familial Risk of Autism is the large study making waves for demonstrating that environmental considerations are roughly equivalent to genetic factors in autism causation. Hopefully funding dollars will begin…
Above: Conor this morning before Mom drove him to school at the Leo Hayes High School Resource Centre. Mom and Dad are very happy to have our Conor with us…
Photo and caption from The Province, April 23, 2014 Photo and caption from the Province, April 23, 2014 As reported by Sam Cooper in The Province April 23, 2014 a…
Shannon Hill of Saskatchewan, parent of a child on the autism spectrum, Board Certified Assistant Behaviour Analyst, (Florida Institute of Technology ABA program), autism advocate and BA (Psychology) Following is…
Today is Earth Day, 2014 and to celebrate this wonderful earth, and the life it supports, I am posting a few of the pictures I have taken on Fredericton’s North…
There are a number of very high functioning persons claiming to be autistic or claiming to have a “syndrome” or “different way of thinking”. Autism is a difference not a…
Photo from Ameriquebec.net In December 2007 I wrote Canada’s Autism Disgrace, describing the lack of a real National Autism Strategy in Canada. It is now 2014 and nothing has changed.…
L to R: Jesse, Christian, Kristen, Conor Photo by Phyllis Van Dine-Humble This is one of my new favorite pictures of Conor, far right in the picture, taken last evening…
Conor Doherty on World Autism Awareness Day 2014, as I tried to take a “selfie” of the two of us wearing blue, gave his old Dad an unexpected hug. As…
Gordon Porter believes that inclusive education is simple. Unfortunately most teachers, the NBTA organisation itself, aides and education administrators have been bullied and intimidated into following his simple philosophy unquestioningly…
Apparently Saskatchewan is still have difficulty providing necessary levels of early autism intervention. I once described it in a September 2, 2007 commentary as Canada’s Autism Wasteland: Canada’s Autism Wasteland…
