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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Autism Linked To Pesticide Exposure |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 3:34 pm |
| Tags: Health, Autism And Pesticides, Autism Pesticides, Autism Society Of America, Autistic Children, Developmental Disability, Down Syndrome, Epilepsy, Horrible Disease, Organophosphate Insecticides, Pesticide Exposure, Seizures, Toxic Exposure |
| else, for years parents of autistic children have believed that maybe some type of toxic exposure was the cause of there children having such a horrible disease well a study has stated autism has been linked to pesticide exposure. (more…) copyright @2007 bu.bulicio.us autism and pesticides, autism pesticides, autism society of |
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| With Autism or Autistic? |
| Published: October 12, 2007, 6:11 pm |
| Tags: Rhetoric, Language, Media, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Children, Education, Family, Grandmother, Health, Language, Letters To The Editor, Pdd Nos, Rhetoric, Words |
| (as the grandmother of an autistic/with autism young man writes in a letter in the October 12th Modesto Bee) to be the preferable term, rather than “autistic,” which the newspaper used in an October 7th story. From autism grandmother Martha Loeffler’s letter: The article frequently referred to “autistic boys,” |
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| Treated as a Prisoner, Not a Patient |
| Published: October 13, 2007, 1:26 pm |
| Tags: Crime, Legal Issues, Arson, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Children, Crime, Education, Family, Health, Mall, Ottawa, Patient, Pdd Nos, Prisoner |
| My son Charlie attends a public school autism program. He is in a self-contained classroom and a teacher or aide is always with him. Charlie has plenty of challenges, but there are some advantages—graces, perhaps—to him needing so much supervision. If Charlie were mainstreamed and left more to his own devices, I would worry a lot about |
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| Left Brain/Right Brain Closes |
| Published: October 14, 2007, 4:54 pm |
| Tags: Weblogs, Autism Wars, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Children, Education, Family, Hatred, Health, Pdd Nos, Thinking Blogger Award, Weblogs |
| to make the world better for autistic children and persons. But enough said about Mr. Best. Too much cannot be said of Kev and his blog and, even more, his family. In the past few weeks, he turned Left Brain/Right Brain into a group blog on which many autism bloggers that I have been fortunate to get to know, often via their comments on |
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| Last Week's Top Posts |
| Published: October 15, 2007, 2:14 am |
| Tags: Crime, Vaccines, Safety, Environment, Sensory, Cause, Food Diet, Legal Issues, Health, Science, Stereotypes, Family, Weather, Genetics, Money, Schoolbus, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Children, Crime, Education, Fall, Family, Health, Language, Learning Disabilities, Mercury, Pdd |
| processing” to other children? The Vaccine Witch HuntWhy are some “out to get” vaccines? With Autism or AutisticWhich do you prefer to say, and why? Things were off-kilter in my household due to Charlie (my autistic son who has autism) having half-days of school from Tuesday through Friday (for parent-teacher conferences; he |
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| Utah Special Olympians Unable to Swim Due to Diaper Ban |
| Published: October 15, 2007, 11:25 pm |
| Tags: Water, Health, Sports, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Children, Education, Epilepsy, Family, Health, Pdd Nos, Special Olympics |
| Swimmers at a Special Olympics event at the University of Utah were unable to compete last Friday due to a state ba on diapers in public swimming pools. Today’s Statesman Journal reports that a 14-year-old girl who has autism and epilepsy was barred from competing after a lifeguard “spotted a woman hurriedly removing a dry diaper from |
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| It's All in the Yeast |
| Published: October 15, 2007, 5:17 pm |
| Tags: Health, Genetics, Science, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Children, Education, Evolution, Family, Genetics, Health, Jenny Mccarthy, Jim Carrey, Pdd Nos, Science, Yeast |
| Science writer Carl Zimmer writes in praise of yeast and notes the “intricacies of its metabolism.” It’s a post probably not to the likings of “I killed CANDIDA” autism mother Jenny McCarthy, who has recently been referred to as an “autism healer” and a “hero” by UCLA chief executive officer of |
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| Keep Off the Astroturf |
| Published: October 16, 2007, 1:11 pm |
| Tags: Environment, Health, Sports, Asd, Aspergers, Astroturf, Autism, Autistic, Children, Education, Family, Health, Pdd Nos, Soccer |
| their possible toxicity, and children are more susceptible to exposure because they drink more water and often transfer substances to their mouths. Children also are still developing and they take longer to rid their bodies of chemicals, he said. Of course, if you’re playing ball on natural turf (= actual grass), there is the problem of |
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| No Mistake About Early Intervention |
| Published: October 16, 2007, 4:00 pm |
| Tags: Vaccines, Cause, Rhetoric, Genetics, Treatment, Education, Abortion, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Children, Cure, Family, Genetics, Health, Language, Pdd Nos, Rhetoric, Vaccines |
| The latest item (as of this Tuesday, 16 October, afternoon) from the Rescue Post bears the puzzling, and potentially misleading, title of “The Mistake of ‘Early Intervention’.” Lenny Schafer of the |
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| Jacob Allen Missing Since Sunday |
| Published: October 16, 2007, 8:34 pm |
| Tags: Safety, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Children, Education, Family, Health, Hiking, Missing, Pdd Nos, West Virginia |
| 18-year-old Jacob Allen has been missing since Sunday afternoon, when he wandered ahead of his parents while hiking in Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. Jacob has autism, is non-verbal, and physically fit. From WDTV news: …Jacob might not know that he’s being considered “lost.” Family and friends say Jacob also |
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| On Living with Autism |
| Published: October 17, 2007, 12:42 pm |
| Tags: Metaphor, Sports, Alternative Medicine, Anti Aging, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Children, Education, Family, Health, Pdd Nos, Wrestling |
| The Staten Island Advance reports on pinning down autism. Autism father and anti-aging coach Nick Delgado is gunning for autism. I guess living with autism doesn’t have quite the same spin. But I’m not really the wrestling type and I leave the heavy lifting to others (more and more, my same-size-as-mom boy). Share This |
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| Imus, Northvale, and Some Numbers |
| Published: October 17, 2007, 5:20 am |
| Tags: Cause, New Jersey, Statistics, Environment, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Children, Cluster, Education, Environment, Family, Health, New Jersey, Northvale, Pdd Nos, Statistics |
| development of the National Children's Study. But back to the Task Force’s study. 42 children whose mothers were teachers at St. Anthony’s were compared to a “control group of children born to teachers at another Northvale public elementary school.” A project summary reports that 10 out of the 42 children have an autism |
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| Let the Paintings Do the Talking |
| Published: October 17, 2007, 10:10 pm |
| Tags: Asia, Art, Art, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Children, Education, Family, Health, Malaysia, Painting, Pdd Nos, Watercolors |
| two other 13-year-old autistic artists, Chew Siew Chong and Pua Zhe Xuan, who often paints rainbows in his paintings. My son Charlie does not draw or paint. But he has long been drawn to colors; a favorite topic of conversation between us is to go over the names of his various therapists, teachers, and (as of this afternoon) his |
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| Two Autism Video Glossaries |
| Published: October 17, 2007, 4:01 pm |
| Tags: Videos, Diagnosis, Media, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Children, Early Intervention, Education, Family, Health, Pdd Nos, Videos, You Tube Media |
| a video glossary of older autistic children and autistic adults, of autistic persons after the “red flags” have been noted, the diagnosis made, queries about treatments begun. But then it occurred to me that such a video glossary already exists, at the Posautive You Tube group. Go there and you’ll see not so many red flags, |
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