For many years Eileen Miller’s daughter, Kim, was unable to verbalize her experiences and emotions, but she was able to communicate using a less conventional language: her art. The Girl who Spoke with Pictures tells the story of a young woman with autism, and how her enlightening drawings enabled her to [...]
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Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged. - Helen Keller
I met an autism parent yesterday who has a child who is [...]
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When you hear your child has autism, you think, “OK, what do I do to help?” Well, that question is easier asked than answered. ABA and Speech Therapy are the most proven, but some other therapies have worked for other kids. Here’s a not yet complete list from the crazy to the essential. I’ll [...]
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It appears that there is some backlash hitting close to home for Denis Leary. Given the CYA tone of Denis Leary’s apology, I am sure he thinks the alumni from his college should wait for their pre-ordered copy of his book to arrive before they cancel their donation to the college.
Leary’s comments on autism anger [...]
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OK, in the last 24 hours, we had a) the first seizure in 3 months, which about the schedule we’re on these days and b) Caroline wrote her name today at school with no help! Talk about a case of good news / bad news.
In the couple of weeks leading up to the seizure, she [...]
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Thanks 100% to our Autism Super Mommy and her never ending hard work with the insurance companies, we got news today that they are PAYING FOR THE DYNAVOX! It has dragged on for a couple of months and we don’t actually have the device in hand yet, but it does beat paying for it out [...]
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If any Wordpress experts out there could advise me on an easy way to delete all of my comments and start over, I would greatly appreciate it. The comments for this blog are 99.9% spam and too numerous to “moderate in bulk”. I don’t even look at them anymore and legitimate comments are also ignored [...]
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The mother of an autistic son reacts to John McCain’s recent pledge to help families like hers. Was it just rhetoric?
By Claudia Kalb | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Oct 20, 2008 | Updated: 9:24 a.m. ET Oct 20, 2008
Autism, once unknown to most Americans, is now [...]
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I guess I am just easily amused now days, but things like this never cease to crack me up. It seems that Caroline had Darth Vader and Chewbacca sleeping in the Groovy Girls bed. Yes, these are the orginal 12″ action figures from my childhood in the 1970s. Poor Darth Vader has had his arms [...]
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