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Happy 2009!
We’re leaving tonight on the red-eye to go back from the Bay Area to New Jersey so, in the interest of being able to spend more time in the California sunshine with my guys and my...
Things small and familiar were the gifts that Charlie most liked: A pale blue Mugen Pop Pop, a new copy of a DVD he already has (and that’s gotten so scratched up and smudged that it skips and...
The American Council on Science and Health (ACSH) has issued a list of Top 10 Unfounded Health Scares of 2008 and take a wild guess about one item, specifically #8……. it involves autism and a...
Sometimes being Charlie’s mother just makes everything simple.
For instance, since a quarter after noon on Tuesday when I walked out into the middle school hallway, Charlie leading the way,...
An Arizona man, Raymond G. Parenteau, was arrested on Wednesday on the charges of allegedly defrauding the Prescott Unified School District of almost $20,000, today’s Daily Courier reports...
We thank Autism Vox readers for their feedback and attention over the past seven months. It has been a great experience getting to know you all, and I hope we provided opinions, news, and stories that helped you. You can continue to follow us at a new...
From the random files of autism: Alex is building himself quite a collection of little figures that he has a deep attachment to: dolls, more or less, though some might call them figures or dollhouse people. They’re a multi-cultural collection of...
Score one for our side: A tactic used by insurance companies to deny expensive behavioral therapy to autistic children has been deemed illegal by a Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge, who has found that Kaiser Permanente’s refusal to pay for a...
While we were waiting for the bus, I said to Alex, “Say, ‘I like sports and fitness!’ ”
“No!” Alex replied, shaking his head for emphasis.
Photo courtesy of longhorndave (flickr.com)
So much for going in with an enthusiastic beginning. Still, we...
Slate’s Erica Westly takes an interesting look at the increasing incidence of Asperger’s as a legal defense, citing the recent headline case of British computer whiz Gary McKinnon, who hacked into almost 100 U.S. government and NASA computers after...
Kristina Chew is a professor of classics and the mother of a boy with autism. Chew writes about both public and personal autism issues. This blog is the most erudite of the autism blogs. I highly recommend it.
Kristina is an exceptional writer and whether her autism related subject matter is vaccines or her son, what shines through is her intelligence and compassion.
