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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Autism Speaks, Autism Awareness .... and the Tall Ships |
| Published: July 13, 2007, 8:26 pm |
| Tags: Halifax, Tall Ships, Autism Disorder, Autism Awarenss, Autism Speaks, Nascar |
| with NASCAR and the Autism Speaks 400. I was asked several times about the Autism Speaks pin while in Halifax. I am often asked about it around Fredericton where I live. The pin, and the Autism Speaks 400, are but two elements of the outstanding work that has been done raising autism awareness and funds for autism research by the fine |
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| Autism Speaks Announces Plans to Fund "Complementary and Alternative Medicine" |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 7:53 am |
| Tags: Bob Wright, Autism Speaks, The Turning Tide, Studies, Katie Wright Hildebrand |
| Act of 2007.And today this:Autism Speaks Seeking Requests for Applications for New Treatment Grants On July 27, 2007, Autism Speaks called for research proposals targeting three broad treatment approaches for autism spectrum disorders. The "Pharmacological Treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorders" RFA focuses on developing robust pilot data that |
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| Something Has Happened |
| Published: July 15, 2007, 8:28 pm |
| Tags: Easter Seals, Cedillo, Fda, Verstraeten, Autism Society Of America, The Turning Tide, Doj, Thimerosal, Johnson And Johnson, Autism Speaks, Legislation, Nih, Epa, Vsd, Cdc, Evidence Of Harm, Studies |
| Trial.I have been following autism news for three years and I have never seen the kind of stories/events that are surfacing.Dave Weldon and Carolyn Maloney have introduced bipartisan legislation, the Mercury Free Vaccines Act of 2007. Autism Speaks has uncharacteristically decided to back it and oppose AB 16 in Sacramento that would mandate |
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| Reseach Based Autism Understanding and Hope for Treatment |
| Published: August 14, 2007, 4:13 am |
| Tags: Autism Treatment, Cold Harbor Spring Laboratory, Michael Wigler, Autism Disorders, Bettleheim, Autism Knowledge Revolution, Applied Behavior Analysis, Alison Singer, Autism Speaks |
| mutations specific to autism occur with a relative degree of frequency in the human genome. These random strikes are technically known as copy number variants, or CNVs. The Cold Spring Harbor team defines these mutating hits as a major cause of autism.... Alison Singer, executive director of Autism Speaks, a national advocacy organization, |
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| Looks Like Autism Speaks is Faking Us Out Again |
| Published: August 17, 2007, 8:18 am |
| Tags: Eric London, Autism Speaks, The Rescue Post |
| Speaks, who we in the biomed community have been praising in the last few weeks for beginning to put money into researching the treatments that are actually helping our kids, might just be doing it for show.The Rescue Post is reporting that rumors point to Eric London of NAAR being put in charge of the biomed research at AS. This would |
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| Patrick Dempsey Driving Autism Speaks No. 29 Car at Grand Prix de Trois-Rivi res |
| Published: August 18, 2007, 3:56 pm |
| Tags: Mx 5 Cup, Grand Prix, Autism Awareness, Patrick Dempsey, Autism Speaks |
| yet another autism awareness coup pulled off by Autism Speaks, Grey's Anatomy star Patrick Dempsey will be racing the Autism No. 9 car at the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivi res Sunday in Round Seven of the SCCA Pro Racing SIRIUS Satellite Radio Mazda MX-5 Cup.SPEEDTV.comFor Sunday's 45-minute MX-5 Cup race, Dempsey will step behind the wheel of the |
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| Autism Gene Hunt |
| Published: August 27, 2007, 4:02 pm |
| Tags: Dr Michael Wigler, Autism Genome Project, Autism Disorders, Angelica Ronald, Franc Esca Happ , Robert Plomin, Autism Speaks |
| has been filled with news of autism research breakthroughs coming at such a quickening pace that they are creating an Autism Knowledge Revolution. Much of the research has focussed on genetic contributions to autism with Professor Michael Wigler's spontaneous mutation theory commanding center stage. In Hunting the gene that traps children in |
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| autism, demons and disordered thinking |
| Published: September 3, 2007, 9:04 pm |
| Tags: Mmr, Autism Speaks, Autism Acceptance, Chelation, Vaccines, Autism |
| Kev has just blogged about an interesting discussion on ABMD, an email list devoted to biomedical interventions for autism. The bare bones are that a parent asked some obvious questions about how many recovered kids there were and where was the research that followed them up. From the subsequent replies three points struck me. 1. The [...] |
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| Another Autism "Story" |
| Published: September 22, 2007, 7:28 am |
| Tags: Autism Speaks, Celebrities, Devastation Rhetoric, Media |
| course, it is a response to Autism Every Day, the unfortunate and poorly thought-out Autism Speaks' video. It just goes to show that if you put a certain kind of lens on something, you can yield a certain kind of result. Typical children look "horrible" to me here. They have melt-downs and geez -- parents get divorced over them. If I saw this |
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| Autism Speaks, Autism Leadership and Board of Education of City of New York v. Tom F., 06-637 |
| Published: October 11, 2007, 5:35 am |
| Tags: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, United States Supreme Court, Autism Disorder, Early Intervention, Autism Awareness, Iep, Autism Speaks |
| with the emergence of Autism Speaks under the leadership of Bob and Suzanne Wright.The Wrights' media savvy, contacts and organizational skills have worked wonders at raising autism awareness, real awareness of autism as what it is a debilitating neurological disorder. From the very best stand up comics and TV stars to NASCAR racers |
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| Local Chapter of Autism Speaks Splits From Autism Speaks |
| Published: October 22, 2007, 9:13 am |
| Tags: Autism Speaks |
| state chapter of a national autism group has spun off to form a separate nonprofit.The Burlington-based Autism Support Daily was formed by a group of advocates who split off from the national Autism Speaks last year.The schism was over money.Now there will be two autism fundraising walks in Vermont. Autism Support Daily held its event on Sept. |
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| New Autism Genetic Data Released By John Hopkins and Autism Consortium |
| Published: October 23, 2007, 3:58 am |
| Tags: Autism Consortium, National Institute Of Mental Health, Dr Aravinda Chakravarti, John Hopkins University, Autism Genetic Resource Exchange, Autism Speaks, Dr Thomas Insel |
| The distrust of parent autism advocates and autism advocacy organizations demonstrated by Canada's CIHR does not seem to be shared by similar American agencies. The Autism Consortium DNA samples for the genome wide scans of DNA variation were provided by the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE), a program of Autism Speaks.The Autism |
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| Does Autism Speaks Support Autism Eugenics? |
| Published: October 24, 2007, 2:30 pm |
| Tags: Autism Speaks, Autism Eugenics |
| that the "Cure" for autism will become the same as the "Cure" for Downs Syndrome. Abortion.I have always assumed that AS did not actually intend this to be the outcome from the beginning, but I may have been naive. Autism Speaks' Eugenic Agenda It's not really news that the ultimate goal of |
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| Autism Research Conference in Wales November 9 |
| Published: October 27, 2007, 2:23 am |
| Tags: Cihr, Autism Research, Autism Disorders, Autism Cymru, Autism Awareness, Autism Speaks |
| autism research conference, open to the public, including parents? A list of scheduled speakers and topics published in advance of the conference? Yes, the Inaugural Autism Research Conference Wales will be taking place at Cardiff on November 9 co-hosted by Autism Cymru, Wales' national charity for autism and Autism Speaks. Speakers, |
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| Autism Every Day At The Nantucket Film Festival |
| Published: November 5, 2007, 12:32 am |
| Tags: Bob Wright, Autism Reality, Neurodiversity, Nantucket Film Festival, Autism Disorders, Suzanne Wright, Autism Awareness, Autism Speaks, Autism Every Day |
| Every Day' was scheduled to play this past week at the Nantucket Film Festival. The film has been a key element in the efforts by Autism Speaks and Bob and Suzanne Wright to raise autism awareness, real autism awareness, around the globe. The film generated much hostility from those who wish to portray autism as simply a natural |
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