Autism Internet Advocate or Internet Junkie?

For many parents, myself included at times, there seems to be a fine line between advocating / researching autism issues for your child and general goofing off on the Internet.  Especially Facebook.

Google Flu Trends meet Google Autism Trends?

I’ve read a lot lately about Google Trends tracking the flu at Google Flu. It is pretty amazing.  Google Flu has not only been able to track Flu outbreaks, they have consistently done so weeks ahead of the CDC.  Somehow, they are able to sort out people just searching for the flu from those [...]

Zac Internet Browser for Kids with Autism

John LeSieur is in the software business, so he took particular interest when computers seemed mostly useless to his 6-year-old grandson, Zackary. The boy has autism, and the whirlwind of options presented by PCs so confounded him that he threw the mouse in frustration.
LeSieur tried to find online tools that could guide autistic children around [...]