Beware the 4th of June
May 23, 2008 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
It seems that journalist David Kirby, who writes regularly about vaccines/mercury/something environmental as the cause of autism, will be at a special briefing at the Houses of Parliament on June 4. That’s the very same day as the Green Our Vaccines rally, which is sponsored by Talk About Curing Autism (TACA), Generation Rescue, HEAL Foundation – Healing Every Autistic Life and Moms Against Mercury. The rally’s to be held in Washington, DC: Looks like June 4th (which is the birthday of Socrates, Aesop, and the first Ford) is going to be “do vaccines cause autism?” sort of day on both sides of the Atlantic. (More raised eyebrows here.)
I’m all for beautiful, green vaccines. I don’t think there will be much effect on autism from it, however.
The acronyms are painful to read. “Healing Every Autistic Life?” Yikes.
The NAS have just been alerted (in case they did not know)
I hope they do not continue to fence sit on this one.
Matt wore a weighted vest in preschool and then in the following years the OT would leave for the year a swishy disc for him to sit on. This year the OT put a theraband tube around the legs of the chair for his feet to sit on.
I thought he needed a pressure vest but did not like it too much at the clinic where he had feeding therapy and we tried one out. Good thing I did not make that investment. He also liked the parachute when in preschool.
What both kids like is to bounce on the oblong (peanut shaped) ball and then press down onto the quiet quilt that is on the edge of couch so the chin is getting pressure while bouncing on ball.
When at the OT off site clinic for LAUSD many years ago he tried out a few times the squeeze machine and I got a photo of him going through it. They are expensive.
We used to have a trampoline and jumpolene and a bean table for tactile play with toys inside. Now in their place is my exercise bike that Nick is starting to use.
Okay, I goofed. This comment belongs on the post “sometimes you just need a hug”