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Seattle Area Hospital in Hot Water Over Autism Ads 11 Jul 2013 | 11:52 pm
Q13 FOX News Seattle Children’s Hospital was forced to pull its new ads from King County buses after complaints about its call to eradicate autism. The cherubic face of a young boy gazed out from the...
Minecraft for Children with Autism 6 Jul 2013 | 08:30 pm
If you have a school-aged child, it’s highly likely that you’ve already heard of Minecraft, an interactive, online game that allows players to build and create textured cubes in a 3D, virtual world. O...
Children With Autism Detect Motion Twice as Fast 22 May 2013 | 06:32 pm
Recent studies at Vanderbilt University and the University of Rochester reveal a startling discovery about autism. In testing a common theory about autism that overwhelming sensory stimulation inhibi...
Turkish Sociologist Declares Children With Autism Born Atheists 3 May 2013 | 08:34 pm
Recently, Turkish sociologist Fehmi Kaya declared in numerous Turkish media outlets that children with autism are “atheists due to a lack of a section for faith in their brains.” He elaborated by sayi...
Respite Care Vital to Autism Families 17 Apr 2013 | 05:57 am
During Autism Awareness Month and the other eleven months of the year, I am aware of the toll that autism takes on families. A key to alleviating this stress is respite care. The value of respite ca...
iCan Shine Teaches Biking to Children With Disabilities 3 Apr 2013 | 03:18 am
Spring is in the air and with it, comes thoughts of summer. Parents know they have to plan well in advance to get their kids the best camps to meet their needs. A wonderful program that teaches kids w...
Autism-Related Depression in Mothers and Children 27 Mar 2013 | 11:08 pm
A pair of articles about autism and depression have captured my attention recently. The first involves a study published in JAMA Psychiatry in which researchers from the Harvard School of Public Healt...
Video Game Recreates the World of Autism 17 Mar 2013 | 08:44 pm
Vancouver-based video game designer Taylan Kadayifcioglu, who goes more accessibly by Taylan Kay, has created "Auti-Sim," a video game that demonstrates what it is like living with hypersensitivity co...
Follow Up to Shackled Child Story: Help is On the Way 12 Mar 2013 | 07:50 pm
In my recent article reporting the tragic story of a eight year old child with autism being arrested and shackled for throwing a tantrum at school, I cried out for a way to intervene in these situatio...
Eight Year Old Girl Arrested, Shackled for Tantrum at School 10 Mar 2013 | 10:29 pm
In yet another horror story of schools and police criminalizing autism, an eight year old girl at Lovejoy Elementary School in Alton, Ill., was jailed for over two hours by Alton police because of tan...
