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• The Most Important Time of the Day

  Published: July 30, 2007, 6:30 pm

  Tags: Parenting, Schoolbus, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autos, Cars, Children, Driving, Education, Family, Highways, Mom Chauffeur, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Roads, Schooolbus

  time that Charlie’s schoolbus pulls up and I see his big brown eyes looking aslant out the window. (For ESY 2007, That Time has been 1:05pm, if not earlier.) For the past six years, I have arranged my work schedule according to that time; when I can, I have sought out shortcuts from work to home and bothered Jim to help me find them; I

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• The Coffee-Memory Link (for some of us)

  Published: August 7, 2007, 2:13 pm

  Tags: Food Diet, Parenting, Neuroscience, Schoolbus, Aging, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Brain, Children, Coffee, Education, Family, Health, Memory, Parenting, Pdd Nos

  A bit of good news, so to speak: Caffeine may protect memory in women, according to a study done by the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research and published in Neurology, and noted in today’s Science Daily. The catch? The study concerns women 65 and over: …..women age 65 and older who drank more than three cups

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• Top 10 August Posts

  Published: September 2, 2007, 7:52 am

  Tags: Charlisms, Sensory, Water, Literature, Myth, Friendship, Drama, New Jersey, Holidays, Vaccines, Family, Science, Schoolbus, Disability Rights, Weblogs, Safety, Health, Parenting, Education, Arthur Miller, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Beach, Children, Developmental Disability, Down Synd

  It may have been the dog days of summer, but autism never takes a vacation. Here are the highlights of August: Thanks to everyone for reading Autism Vox—-your comments spur me to think and re-examine my own views, and reaccess. 4 autism limericks from the Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form (OEDILF) spark discussion about how we

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• Heart of Sailing and the Heart of It All

  Published: September 4, 2007, 2:21 am

  Tags: New Jersey, Water, Sports, Schoolbus, Apartment, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Boat, Children, Education, Family, Health, Heart Of Sailing, Home, House, Moving, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Sailing, Ship

  the schedule for the schoolbus—-my car failed its inspection—Charlie has a new teacher (who was an aide last year), a new classroom, new classmates——- I guess it’s a bit—-I’ll surmise that more than a few of you out there are contending with as much, or more, and all at once. It never rains but it

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• No Schoolbus for One Whole Week

  Published: September 11, 2007, 12:46 pm

  Tags: Schoolbus, Education, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Family, Health, New York, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Schoolbus, Transportation

  Since we moved to a different part of our town, Charlie has not been able to take the school bus and Jim has been driving him and dropping him off. The bus is scheduled to come tomorrow—-this story about how the bus for a 15-year-old autistic boy in Queens did not come for the entire first week of school is definitely not the way to start

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• The Bus Comes and a Trail of Bread Crumbs

  Published: September 15, 2007, 2:08 am

  Tags: Movies, Charlisms, Music, Family, Schoolbus, Education, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, California, Children, Family, Health, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Mamas Papas, Monterey Pop Festival, Music, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Pop, Rock N Roll, Schoolbus, The Who

  the schoolbus came for the first time for Charlie this morning. I had already left to teach an early class and Jim gave me the report: It had been confusing. Charlie has grown accustomed to standing in the long driveway in front of my in-laws’ house and running back and forth on the lawn while waiting for the bus; today, Jim tried to

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• Boy misses bus, claims he was kidnapped

  Published: September 15, 2007, 2:01 pm

  Tags: Abduction, Fake Kidnapping, Fakekidnapping, Idaho, Kidnap, Police, School Bus, Schoolbus

  Filed under: Moms, Dads, 10-12 years, Pre-teenOne summer when my brother Steve was about 12 years old, he began sneaking out his bedroom window at night to hang out with his buddies on the street corner. I don't know what they did out there, but whatever it was made risking the wrath of my father worth it. His midnight forays came to an abrupt

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• The Pleasures of Reading, Rediscovered

  Published: September 17, 2007, 7:17 am

  Tags: Language, Charlisms, Classics, History, Schoolbus, Education, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Books, Children, Childrens Literature, Curious George, Family, Greek, Health, Herodotus, History, Maurice Sendak, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Reading, Science, Wild Things

  Your comments about my reading Charlie a few pages from the ancient Greek historian Herodotus got me to thinking about reading and specifically, about the pleasures of reading. I realized that, while so many of the many children’s books that we have are full of lovely stories charmingly told, with colorful drawings to match, my reading them

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• The Wheels on the Bus, and the Bus Driver, and the Bus Matron ..

  Published: September 24, 2007, 6:43 am

  Tags: New Jersey, Schoolbus, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Auto Accidents, Bus, Bus Driver, Children, Family, Health, Highway, Parenting, Pdd Nos, School Bus

  On our way home from a September swim in the ocean, we stopped at a rest stop on the Garden State Parkway to refuel (and re-soda). As Jim paid the cashier and Charlie checked out the chip selection just in case he could get something else (on top of a burger and fries meal heavy-on-the-ketchup and with a side of rice from his dad’s plate), I

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• Parental Control Isn't All It's Cracked Up To Be

  Published: September 28, 2007, 2:03 pm

  Tags: Charlisms, Technology, Parenting, Weblogs, Schoolbus, Alcohol, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Education, Family, Health, Keg, Mothering, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Roller Blades, Weblogs

  home to meet the yellow schoolbus. Share This

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• Who pays for what? (2)

  Published: October 1, 2007, 6:04 am

  Tags: Legal Issues, Money, Schoolbus, Education, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Family, Health, Learning Disabilities, Money, Pdd Nos, Supreme Court, Viacom

  Costs for special education are rising twice as fast for regular education Massachusetts, the October 1st BostonNOW notes. Private school tuition for special ed students can range from $50,000 to $240,000 per year, with transportation costs ($190 million/year) being cited as the biggest expenditure: “Sometimes it costs more to transport a

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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

  bullied as he gets off the schoolbus—and the attackers videotape it. Autism and Genetics and the EnvironmentOn the age-old question of nurture and, or vs., nature. Sister charged with failing to provide the necessities of lifeTiffany Pinckney was found in a basement on a soiled rug and weighing 84 pounds. Her sister, Allison Cox, is on

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• When is it considered bullying?

  Published: November 7, 2007, 8:29 am

  Tags: Bullying, Bus, School, School Bus, Schoolbus

  Filed under: Public school, Going to school, 6-7 years, BullyingEver since Ellie started first grade, she has been coming home telling me about a certain boy on the bus who has been giving her a hard time. He's a third grader and sits in the same row with his second-grader sister and Ellie. In the beginning, the complaints were general remarks

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• US to pay for seatbelts on school buses

  Published: November 20, 2007, 8:01 am

  Tags: Bus Safety, Bussafety, School, School Bus, School Bus Safety, Schoolbus, Schoolbussafety

  Filed under: Going to school, 6-7 yearsWhen I woke up this morning, I glanced out my bedroom window and was shocked to see snow swirling in the sky. Watching the big, fat flakes piling up on the window sill, my first thought was, "cool!" My second thought was "crap, Ellie has to ride the school bus in the snow."It took a lot to convince my

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• $49,500

  Published: November 27, 2007, 11:12 am

  Tags: New Jersey, Money, Schoolbus, Education, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Autistic, Children, Costs, Family, Health, Motherhood, Pdd Nos, Schoolbus, Transportation

  That’s how much a New Jersey school district was paying to bus one student (non-autistic) to a vocational-technical school in another county about miles away. Today’s Star-Ledger reports that the student’s parents are now driving him, but this is considered a “stop-gap measure” and that a cheaper mode of

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