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Feb 9, 2012, 6:21 am
On July 17 2011 I made a submission to the Neurodevelopmental Disorders DSM Work Group of the American Psychiatric Association. My submission dealt at length with the exclusionary language added to Mandatory Criterion A of the DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder, language which targets for excl... Comment - Like
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Feb 7, 2012, 3:36 am
Surely, of all the dangers that confront many autistic children the simplest danger to eradicate, the one that doesn't have to exist, is the danger of an autistic child being left alone on a school bus, van or other vehicle while parked in scorching heat or while it departs for other destinations.... Comment - Like
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Feb 4, 2012, 9:12 am
Dr. Beatrice Golomb's presentation This Is Your Brain On Politics pulls no punches in its critique of conflicts of interest, bias, censorship and intimidation involving pharmaceutical companies, health authorities and academic institutions and publications. Professor Golomb's presentation includes... Comment - Like
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Feb 2, 2012, 5:48 pm
The attached letter was written by ASAT Board member Sabrina Freeman Ph. D., and Secretary Florence DiGennaro Reed, Ph. D., BCBA-D to the LA Times Alan Zarembo who did such a poor job (in my humble opinion) reporting on autism issues in a recent LA Times series. In the letter Freeman and Reed atte... Comment - Like
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Feb 1, 2012, 2:36 am
I have great respect for Kim Oakley a California mother who has been honestly and courageously documenting her severely autistic son's self-injurious behavior on Youtube, Classic Autism kgaccount's channel, for several years. Within the past year she has also begun a blog, Autism, Epilepsy ... Comment - Like
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Jan 31, 2012, 3:31 am
DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder Will Exclude Autism's Vast Majority Of Intellectually Disabled
While the New York Times, the CBC and other mainstream media giants debate the DSM5's potential exclusion of high functioning autistic persons from autism diagnosis barely a whisper is heard about the e... Comment - Like
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Jan 25, 2012, 2:55 am
Second from Left, NB Premier and Woodstock MLA David Alward
PHOTO BY MICHAEL MACDONALD/NBCC WOODSTOCK
On January 4 2012 I emailed New Brunswick Premier David Alward and relevant cabinet ministers the following inquiry which asked simply whether his government was considering helping autistic adu... Comment - Like
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Jan 21, 2012, 2:07 pm
"Catherine Lord, the director of the Institute for Brain Development at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, and a member of the committee overseeing the
- Dr. Catherine Lord, as reported by NYT High Functioning Autism/Asperger's reporter, Amy Harmon, A Specialists’ Debate on Autism Has Many Worried O... Comment - Like
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Jan 15, 2012, 6:14 pm
The Bricks and Mortar Office of the Ombudsman 548 York Street,Fredericton,New Brunswick, at the Staying Connected consultations,in which I participated, Ombudsman Bernard Richard and NBACLPresident Clarence Box both dismissed Long Term ResidentialCare and Treatment Facilities for Autistic Youth ... Comment - Like
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Jan 14, 2012, 8:30 am
Was there any progress in addressing autism disorder issues in 2011? In the humble opinion of this father of a severely autistic 16 year old there was very slight progress on the research front, very slight, and that progress was more than offset by the regression on other fronts particularly in t... Comment - Like
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Jan 10, 2012, 5:35 am
Run, Jump, Fly Boy 2007
Run, Jump, Fly Boy 2011
There are many news reports concerning possible connections between obesity and medications prescribed for children and adults with autism and other developmental disorder. Those reports help stiffen our resolve to avoid medications for our autisti... Comment - Like
Harold L D. posted an article on
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Jan 4, 2012, 3:29 pm
The Ombudsman and the community living bureaucracy in New Brunswick can Connect all The Dots and hold as many cheer leading sessions as they want but none of them have done anything to address the need for decent residential care and treatment facilities for severely autistic adults in New Brunswick... Comment - Like
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Jan 1, 2012, 1:55 am
The abstract following is for the article Testing the Construct Validity of Proposed Criteria for DSM-5 Autism Spectrum Disorder, authors William P.L. Mandy, D.Clin.Psy., Tony Charman, Ph.D., David H. Skuse, M.D.Accepted 21 October 2011. published online 05 December 2011. The study partici... Comment - Like
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Dec 30, 2011, 3:32 am
One of the great DSM-5 puzzles to this father of a severely autistic son is the use of the label Autism Spectrum Disorder to describe what appears to be little more than a tweaked version of the DSM-IV's Asperger's Disorder. The APA's DSM-5 team has replaced Autism with Aspergers, removed the most... Comment - Like
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Dec 28, 2011, 8:36 pm
FOX News has published a report, Some Experts Worried Over Revised Autism Guidelines, in which two autism experts, Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist and Fox News contributor, and Dr. Thomas Frazier, who treats children with autism at the Cleveland Clinic Children’s Hospital, express their conc... Comment - Like
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Dec 27, 2011, 9:09 pm
My children have received their recommended vaccinations. I have had some although I am old enough that I received my measles and mumps shots the old fashioned way ... I had bad cases of both mumps and measles as a child. I have not ... as yet ... attributed my son's autistic disorder to any injec... Comment - Like
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Dec 26, 2011, 7:55 pm
Amy Harmon and the New York Times like their autism fluffy and lite, none of that yucky severe autistic disorder stuff
You wouldn't know it from reading NY Times columnist Amy Harmon, or from reading the NYT generally, but 70% of persons with Autistic Disorder suffer from intellectual disability.... Comment - Like
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Nov 2, 2011, 3:47 am
"Autism is linked to different genes in different people,
and multiple genes could be involved in each affected person."
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, November 1, 2011
Do genetics play ANY role in causing autism?
The view that autism is caused purely by genetics held sway for man... Comment - Like
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Nov 1, 2011, 5:11 pm
Medicare's Orphans. from MedicareForAutismNow on Vimeo.
Medicare's Orphans – A film about the fight to get healthcare for children with autism in Canada is now online. I encourage everyone with an interest in autism disorders, anyone interested in advocating for treatment and cure for this s... Comment - Like
Harold L D. posted an article on
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Oct 31, 2011, 3:38 am
It is common place today to refer to autism(s), plural, rather than autism, singular. So why is the DSM5 combing the autisms into one Autism Spectrum Disorder? It is common in both professional and parent based discussions of autism to encounter comments like "if you've met one person with autism,... Comment - Like
Harold L D. posted an article on
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Oct 30, 2011, 7:21 am
... .
The American Psychiatric Association has no special mandate or ownership rights ... will soon become a point of no return. A near final ... problems, and the resulting overprescribing of dangerous psychiatric drugs"
The online ... becoming one, and with exclusion of intellectually disa... Comment - Like
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Oct 29, 2011, 3:50 am
Pharma view of my son
My view of my son
Apparently when pharmaceutical company executives contemplate the Autistic Disorder which limits the life of my son, and the lives of many who suffer from the limitations imposed by Autistic Disorder, they see Autistic Disorder Therapeutic Market Op... Comment - Like
Harold L D. posted an article on
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Oct 27, 2011, 3:55 am
The fight to ensure that children with autism disorders receive treatment for their disorders engages many different people with many different priorities. Autism advocates do meet political leaders and civil services officials who genuinely care. But we also encounter those whose only concern i... Comment - Like
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Oct 26, 2011, 9:34 am
David Marley and Jean Lewis On the Need for Medicare Coverage for Autism Disorders
Jean Lewis, for 13 years, and David Marley, for 6 years, have been advocating, fighting is the better word given the powerful interests they have had to challenge, for medicare coverage of autism treatment in Canada.... Comment - Like
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Oct 24, 2011, 3:36 am
L: Danielle Pelletier, R: Harold Doherty
In the photo above I am standing with Danielle Pelletier, an SLP and founder of Autism Intervention Services Fredericton. I was privileged to be in attendance and to have the opportunity to speak with Danielle who was honored Saturday night for her service ... Comment - Like
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Oct 23, 2011, 3:53 am
I am not going to provide a link to the recent reports of autism facial studies. I am just going to ask our learned academics and researchers to quit indulging their silly notions, quit wasting research dollars and quit wasting the time of autistic children an adults who might benefit from res... Comment - Like
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Oct 21, 2011, 5:37 am
The DSM-IV and popular media interpretation of the autism disorders (pervasive developmental disorders), have encouraged the world to see autism as shy or introverted personality and a different, sometimes superior, way of thinking and has obscured... Comment - Like
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Oct 19, 2011, 2:46 am
Two news reports show all too clearly that no one stands on guard for autistic children, youth and adults in Canada:
EDMONTON — A 51-year-old Edmonton man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for abuse and neglect of his teenage autistic son that left him looking like a "concentration camp ... Comment - Like
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Oct 17, 2011, 5:28 am
David Marley and Jean Lewis of Medicare for Autism Now!Oakville, Ontario, 2008
David Marley and Jean Lewis of Medicare for Autism NOW! have been fighting for medicare coverage of evidence based treatment for autism disorders for many years. I first met them in Halifax in May, 2007 and again in Oak... Comment - Like
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Oct 16, 2011, 7:09 pm
Horrendous news out of Philadelphia where 3 people have been arrested after 4 mentally disabled adults described as having the mental capacity of 10 year olds were found chained behind a steel door in a basement. They were malnourished, with only a bottle of water between them. The room smelled of... Comment - Like
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Oct 15, 2011, 3:52 pm
Conor Doherty, October 15, 2011, Out for a stroll with Dad and showing no obvious signs of stress in his life
In my last blog post I commented on Dr. Gabor Maté's theory that parental stress causes autism disorders including Autistic Disorder. Dr. Maté is reported to have admitted that he had... Comment - Like
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Oct 13, 2011, 8:52 pm
"DR. GABOR MATÉ: Well, the situation with fathers is, is that increasingly—there was a study recently that showed an increasing number of men are having postpartum depression, as well. And the main role of the father, of course, would be to support the mother. But when people are—emotiona... Comment - Like
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Oct 7, 2011, 4:02 am
Like its mainstream media counterparts in the US and Canada the Russian news service Pravda is busy misrepresenting Asperger's as Autism. In Autism: Life full of struggle and success there is mention of Asperger's as "an" autism disorder. There is also acknowledgement of some of the challenges f... Comment - Like
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Oct 3, 2011, 4:28 am
I am a frequent critic of the mainstream media's tendency to misrepresent autism disorders. The mainstream media routinely presents feel good stories of autistic accomplishments, painting autism as merely a different way of thinking and speculating that many of histories great geniuses were probably... Comment - Like
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Oct 1, 2011, 6:34 am
It is 6:40 am (Atlantic) time here in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. Conor, my 6 feet tall, 15 year old son with Autistic Disorder, is now relatively quiet after several hours of screaming and crying. The noise was accompanied by periodic outbursts of head slapping. That is the reality ... Comment - Like
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Sep 30, 2011, 8:15 pm
Autism hope for the future lies in autism research and the US leads the world in autism research.
I can not say it often enough. Thank you America. Thank you President Obama. Comment - Like
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Sep 27, 2011, 5:11 am
US Capitol, Source: Autism Society of North Carolina
Excellent! The US Senate has now passed CARA, the Combating Autism Reauthorization Act, and it should soon be headed to President Obama's office where it has already been indicated the President would sign! The US has led the way in useful... Comment - Like
Harold L D. posted an article on
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Sep 26, 2011, 1:14 pm
The DSM-5 is formalizing a shell game which has seen Asperger`s substituted for Autism in the mainstream media for many years. The most recent media example comes courtesy of the UK government`s National Health Service which, while referencing Asperger's as one form of autism, focuses on it as t... Comment - Like
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Sep 24, 2011, 6:07 pm
Hakuna Matata! What a wonderful phrase
Hakuna Matata! Ain't no passing craze
It means no worries for the rest of your days
It's our problem-free philosophy
Hakuna Matata!
Severely affected by autistic disorder and profound developmental delays Conor faces many challenges with his autism every day of... Comment - Like
Harold L D. posted an article on
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Sep 22, 2011, 2:42 am
My 15 year old son is severely impacted by his Autistic Disorder. It presents real challenges for his ability to function in every aspect of his life. He has an Autistic Disorder that manifests in his limited understanding of the world, in repetitive, obsessive behaviors, in self injurious behavio... Comment - Like
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Sep 21, 2011, 1:50 am
A new "study" informs us that persons with Asperger's Disorder and High Functioning Autism are more likely to be atheists.
How does that help us understand the biological basis for autism disorders? How does that help us understand the causes of autism disorders? How does that help us find treat... Comment - Like
Harold L D. posted an article on
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Sep 20, 2011, 1:51 am
US Capitol, Source: Autism Society of North Carolina
I am a Canadian father of two sons the younger of whom is severely autistic. I hope our good neighbors in the United States pass the Combating Autism Reauthorization Act (CARA) before the Combating Autism Act expires at the end of this month. ... Comment - Like
Harold L D. posted an article on
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Sep 18, 2011, 7:37 am
UPDATE: The question in my comment title was answered, to some extent, by information passed to me that this study was reported in 2007. I have no idea why it shows up on the Daily Mail online with today's date at the top of the page and with no internal story dates to indicate it is not current. I... Comment - Like
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Sep 17, 2011, 2:59 am
I was somewhat startled to read a September 16, 2011 promotional release for a Brain Balance Program center opening in Pennsylvania that claims to be a "revolutionary" treatment for a variety of developmental delays including ADHD, Dyslexia, Asperger’s, Tourettes, OCD, Asperger's and Autism. ... Comment - Like
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Sep 16, 2011, 5:15 am
When the Huffington Post merged with AOL there were some who wondered about the impact of the deal on the Huffington Post's positioning outside the news establishment. Emily Bell explored this concern at the UK's Guardian in AOL + Huffington Post = disaster? :
" Huffington achieved a miracle... Comment - Like
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Sep 12, 2011, 5:25 am
In NB No Progress for Autism Residential Care Since 2005
New Brunswick parents of young autistic children enjoying the benefits of early autism intervention in our province should not be complacent. The benefits their children now receive will not always continue as their children grow older. Ma... Comment - Like
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Sep 9, 2011, 3:24 am
Dr. Aditi Shankardass: If it is a brain disorder, surely we need to look at the brain!
Autism is one of the developmental disorders described as a brain based disorder in the presentation by Dr. Aditi Shankardass in which she makes the observation that if developmental disorders are brain dis... Comment - Like
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Sep 5, 2011, 5:37 am
I found this presentation on the use of EEG technology in assessing autism and other learning disorders to be very thought provoking. It is possible such technology will offer more accurate diagnosis of disorders and more specific treatments. Comment - Like
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Sep 4, 2011, 6:48 am
As the father of a 15 year old son with severe autism deficits AND "profound developmental delays" I have found the insistence in some quarters of the alleged world autism community that there is no such thing as low functioning and high functioning autism, or severe and mild autism, to be both ir... Comment - Like
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