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• World Autism Awareness Day Has Come and Gone - Now What?

  Published: April 4, 2008, 6:49 pm

  Tags: Neurodiversity, Amanda Baggs, Autistic Disorder, Aba, World Autism Awareness Day, Cnn, University Of New Brunswick, Applied Behavior Analysis

  for improvement in adult autistic residential care and treatment.If you are an autistic adult, or parent or family member of an autistic child or severely autistic adult you probably already know what you are fighting for, you probably know what has to be done to help yourself or the autistic loved one in your life.If you are the parent of a

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• Alex Plank with Aspergers Does Not Want To Be Cured But He Does Not Speak for My Son with Autistic Disorder

  Published: April 4, 2008, 3:55 am

  Tags: Alex Plank, Michelle Dawson, Jim Sinclair, Amanda Baggs, Autistic Disorder, Asd, Autism

  him uncomfortable as an "autistic". He is also offended that parents seek treatment and cure for their own children which, given Mr. Plank's good fortune are almost assuredly more severely disabled than he. Mr. Plank, by his own self description, does not face the severe challenges that are faced by many autistic people with actual Autistic

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• Autism & Stimming, 2000+ Views for Conor Stimming Video

  Published: April 27, 2008, 9:41 am

  Tags: Stimming, Autistic Disorder, Autism, Developmental Delay

  CNN promotion).Conor has Autistic Disorder with profound developmental delays. He will not be attending Simon's Rock College for gifted youths. And he will not be writing elaborate screenplays explaining how his stimming is a way of communicating with the physical world around him. His language skills are not that good. As far as I can

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• Autism Fun - Conor and Dad at the Circle Place

  Published: April 27, 2008, 4:20 pm

  Tags: Conor, Fun, Autistic Disorder, Nashwaaksis, Autism

  After a long tough winter it is no problem getting Conor outdoors for a walk, especially if we go to "the circle place", the Lawrence Amphitheatre in Nashwaaksis. The Saint John River has flooded this spring and we have to take a different route. Once there Conor loves to walk around the rings and circle at "the circle place". After Conor

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• Autism As Disability and Disorder - NOT Deviance

  Published: April 28, 2008, 12:12 pm

  Tags: Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Estee Klar Wolfond, Joy Of Autism, Autistic Disorder, Autism

  to those who describe autistic disorder as a ... disorder, a disability, or a disease. What Ms Klar-Wolfond and other ND adherents ignore are the hard realities of autistic children, like my son, who can not walk to the end of our neighborhood street alone for fear of serious injury or death. Nor do they talk much about the autistic

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• RDI Is NOT an Evidence Based Intervention

  Published: April 29, 2008, 4:32 am

  Tags: Rdi, Evidence Based Interventions, Autistic Disorder, Aba, Aap, Madsec, Autism

  to treating and educating autistic children it adopted a very sound policy which has helped many autistic children. Even in Saint John where the "anything but ABA" sentiment has been strongest, autistic children receive evidence based intervention at the Stepping Stones autism agency. But why is it important to provide evidence based

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• Autism, Conor and the Fredericton Flood 2008

  Published: May 1, 2008, 1:58 pm

  Tags: Flood, Autistic Disorder, Fredericton, Nashwaaksis, Autism

  Fredericton has been hit by some serious flooding. The pictures above are taken in Nashwaaksis, the area where we live in Fredericton. We have done fine. Lots of water coming into the basement but nothing we couldn't handle (so far) with buckets, a Shop Vac, a sump pump and some sleep deprivation. With a disrupted routine and lots of

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• Buddies Forever

  Published: May 6, 2008, 3:09 am

  Tags: Autism Acceptance, Conor, Fredericton Flood 2008, Flood, Autistic Disorder, Autism

  advocating for our autistic children are occasionally lectured and told that we must stop trying to "change" our children. We must learn to accept our children's autism and find joy - in their autism. I do not find joy in Conor's autistic disorder which presents him with serious challenges now and for the future. But I find great joy

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• Alleged Autism Rights Movement and Severe Autism: Autistic Boy Goes Missing, Struck and Killed by Train

  Published: May 26, 2008, 3:14 pm

  Tags: Alleged Autism Rights Movement, Autistic Disorder, Severe Autism, Autism

  much help for the severely autistic, the truly severely autistic, not the former students of colleges for gifted youths, but those, like my son Conor who wondered across a busy main street oblivious to the dangers of traffic; or those like the 10 year old severely autistic boy in North Carolina who was struck by a train and killed Saturday

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• Autism Reality - Missing Autistic Teen Found Safe in Pennsylvania

  Published: June 5, 2008, 6:31 am

  Tags: Howard County, Missing Autistic Persons, Autistic Disorder, Autism

  originally from. The young autistic man left his home on May 27 but the The Columbia Flier, Howard County Times article on ExploreHoward.com reports that police did not release the date on which he was located. As the father of a 12 year old boy with Autistic Disorder, and profound developmental delays, it is always good to read a "missing

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• Autism Therapy: Autistic Man Benefited From ABA

  Published: June 6, 2008, 5:11 am

  Tags: Neurodiversty, Alleged Autism Rights Movement, Autistic Disorder, Aba, Aj Corless, Autism, Autism Therapy, American Academy Of Pediatrics

  of ABA in helping autistic children. Of course the ideologues who believe that autism is not truly a disorder, because their mild version of autism poses few restriction on their enjoyment of life, also dismiss, the views and efforts of hundreds of thousands of parents across North America who are seeking to treat, educate or

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• Conor Goes Exploring At The River

  Published: June 7, 2008, 6:04 pm

  Tags: Conor, New Brunswick, Autistic Disorder, Fredericton, Autism, Saint John River

  autism

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• Severe Autism Reality - Adult Autism Care Crisis for Maine Family

  Published: June 8, 2008, 4:21 pm

  Tags: Bangor, Autistic Disorder, Adult Autism Care, New Brunswick, Maine, Jennie Segerson, Autism, Autism Hub

  for severely autistic persons is not easy and it does not get any easier as autistic children become adults and parents and other family members also age. In A Crisis in Caring Meg Haskell of the Bangor Daily News has an excellent report on Jennie Segerson, a 29 year old severely autistic Maine woman who has been living with her mother

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• Barely Autistic Spokespersons of the Alleged Autism Rights Movement Misrepresent Their Constituency

  Published: June 10, 2008, 8:12 am

  Tags: Autistic Disorder, Autism Rights Movement, Pervasive Developmental Disorders

  Rights Movement are actually autistic? At best it can be said that, to the extent that they share symptoms with persons with severe Autistic Disorder, they are barely autistic, and not representative of those with severe Autistic Disorder and they have no right to speak on their behalf.There are several disorders on the spectrum of Pervasive

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• Help For Your Autistic Child? Consult Credible Autism Authorities

  Published: June 10, 2008, 6:39 am

  Tags: Autism Treatment, Autistic Disorder, Aba, Aap, Applied Behavior Analysis, Madsec Autism Task Force Report, Autism

  were successful in a languagedisordered classroom and scored a mean IQ of 70 (range = 56-95). Of the control groups,18 students were in a language disordered class (mean IQ = 70).3) Two students in the treatment group were in a class for autistic or retarded children andscored in the profound MR range. By comparison, 21 of the control students

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