So I come home to a sandy car and sand all over the couch (good signs of a fun trip to the beach) and this headline in the New Jersey Star-Ledger:
Rise in number of children diagnosed with autism makes parents wary
Reporter Kathleen O’Brien interviewed a number of doctors and, in particular, pediatricians, as well as parents of young children who have one particular fear, a “looming dread of autism” in any child who is not meeting those developmental milestones and might be lining up the trains (though, of course, what else does one do with those wooden Brio trains that …read more