It looks like the bottleneck in the Senate was broken and the funding for the Combating Autism Act will flow.
WASHINGTON — The Senate sent President Barack Obama a bill Monday night to extend federal autism programs after Sen. Bob Menendez reached an agreement with a Republican senator who had been blocking the measure.
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Critical provisions of The Combating Autism Act expire September 30. The current bill is a continuation of the Combating Autism Act that President George W. Bush signed into law in 2006 and was passed unanimously last week by the GOP controlled US House of Representative. Think about that. There was not one person in the House who stood in opposition to the bill! None.
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We went to see The Lion King 3D yesterday and it was an all around great family outing. Going to the movies with a kid with autism is often a crap shoot. Fine more times that not, but the occasional issue (like throwing Shrek action figure ten rows in front of us and scarring a nice family). In any case, this time was great. The movie was about the same as the other 20 or 30 times I’ve seen it, with the fringe benefit of a 3D headache.
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A new study out this week links having autism spectrum disorder to being an atheist. This seems to be the latest in a long line of similar autism studies. In this case, when they say “autism”, they mean Asperger’s Syndrome. A few other notable “autism linked to” studies that come to mind …
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We’re making a trip to Florida in the near future for a doctor visit and a quick trip to Walt Disney World. We have always traveled with a stroller. It makes getting through airport security MUCH easier. However, she is getting a tad too big for the standard umbrella stroller. I have gotten used to the dirty looks by judgmental people. I am counting on karma paying them a visit at some point. I noticed when searching for a big kid stroller that there is even a blog and a Facebook page where folks can go and practice being judgmental by mocking kids too big to be in strollers. Granted, most of these kids at the WALK blog probably are too big for a stroller. It is impossible to know what their circumstances are just from a picture.
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As most of you know, leaving your kid with autism alone in another room, often leads to bad things, very bad things. In our case, we have the standard behavior related reasons that supervision is needed plus worry over seizures.
We have been using laptops, iPads, and Skype to monitor our daughter from another part of the house.
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I am a strong believer in special diets for autism. I am not sure that they work for all of the reasons that many folks claim. I have believed for awhile that eating good nutritious foods, removing sugar, dyes, and preservatives has had a huge impact on my daughter. I can see it. Again, I am not quite so sure some of it is because of the reasons that people state, but I’ll take it.
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UPDATE: JOSHUA was found thanks to searchers blaring some Ozzy Osbourne tunes … http://autismretort.blogspot.com/2011/09/update-missing-child-with-autism-joshua.html
The story in the news today about 8 year old Joshua Robb being missing really hits home for me. Joshua took off running on the school play ground Monday and ran into the woods. He bolted and an no one could catch him before he escaped into the woods.
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My mom, who lives with us, and who is a huge help with my daughter; had surgery on her foot today. Several re-broken toes and many pins later and she will be out of service for many weeks. She is to put NO weight on her foot for at least two weeks minimum. She will have several very interesting looking pins sticking out of her foot AND be riding around in very fun looking wheel chair. It should be an interesting several weeks to say the least.
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I feel like Paul Revere around here on many days. Like so many kids with autism, my daughter has seizures. As if autism in general was not enough, seizures add a whole new level of worry about going out in public and especially with activities like SWIMMING. You have to be on guard 24/7 and know that even then one day, that might not be enough.
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