This Week’s Top Posts
October 28, 2007 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
- “My life would be empty without my son”—Emma Noble
While noting that life raising an autistic child is not easy—-Noble notes that her son Harry has sometimes been awake for 22 hours and also been a “‘hostage to his rituals’”—she “would not want him any other way.” - After Jenny, With Charlie, and Lots to Hope For
Are we living not in the “Age of Autism” (the title of a series of columns by journalist Dan Olmsted) but in the AJ Age—”After Jenny”? - A Little Big Deal
“Today Charlie was quite fine hanging in his room, and he also understood that he had to wait a while before going to do what he liked. He repeated my own words back: “‘Mom has to get some work done. Have to wait.’” - Padded Cells and Physical Restraints
Someone in the Cherry Hill, New Jersey, school district must think it is all right for a child to be placed in what is called a “safe zone” or “timeoutbox” and what could simply be referred to as a “padded cell.” - Fast Results in Autism Genetics
The first genome scan for autism has been completed following the analysis of genetic data from more than 3000 autistic children and their family members: What does this mean for our understanding of autism? Might there someday be a prenatal test for autism? - The “Hyper” of Autism
A new theory of autism: Autism is an “intense world syndrome” in which a person has “hyper-perception, hyper-attention, and hyper-memory” and has “hyper-functionality” rather than “hypo-functionality.” - The Myth of the Person Alone
Autism = “isolation”—-at least according to an essay, “Avoiding Moral Autism,” by Ambassador Marc Franco–but not so fast.
