Autism

Autism blogging is intensely political, with well-known champions, stark realities, high personal stakes and the great risk of collateral awareness.

Many sources cite a statistic of 1 in 150 to 1 in 160 as being the prevalence of autism most often by people who are seeking government funding, donations or otherwise wishing to convey urgency and importance. There is little or no agreement as to what this information means, even less about what should be done in terms of public policy.

This tension has resulted in some of the most interesting and important writing in the blogosphere, with impacts that have reverberated within science and Mental Health Policy debates within the United States, Canada and The United Kingdom.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “Autism”

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  Adults With Autism or Asperger’s Syndrome
  How adults with autism spectrum disorders, including Asperger's Syndrome can get the support they need to succeed personally and professionally.
  by patriciarobinson / on Oct 13, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Autism”

• How Fiction Writers can to Learn Story Structure

  
  The Lina Lamont Fan Club — Authority: 414
  Working on Nano this year Ive run across the same problem I always have--- I can think up story beginnings just fine, but what then? Ive started novel after novel without completing. Ive even written outlines for a few, but the only part of the outlines that seemed to be any good was the beginning. Recently I bought ...
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• The Vaccines Profit Boom - Russian Roulette With Your Lives

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 140
  Vaccines for whatever ails you. Toxic load will kill you. The One Click Group One Click Note: With drug patents expiring and very few new drugs in the pipeline, the pharmaceutical industry has now gripped on to vaccines as the greatest profit block buster of all time. No matter that the spreading Polio epidemics ...
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• Adverse reactions to the Swine Flu vaccine soar

  
  Holy Hormones, Honey! — Authority: 140
  American Chronicle November 21, 2009 by Christina England Glaxo Smith Kline have recalled a batch of Swine Flu vaccines containing around 170,000 vaccines in Canada, due to a larger than expected number of adverse reactions. GSK say that they expect to have reports of a severe adverse reaction in a approx 1 in ...
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• David Cameron on Autism - UK Autism Foundation

  
  Disabled World — Authority: 146
  The charity, the UK Autism Foundation has heard from the Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron on the serious issues of autism.
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• Arts and Smarts, No More Fat Tires (no!), and Whats up with our Schools???

  
  Yogi's Den — Authority: 130
  It has been quite a weekend. My weekend started Thursday because of my work schedule. Sweetie and I along with some of my coworkers and friends attended the "Arts and Smarts" Triva Quiz and Art Show sponsored by the Autism Center of Tulsa. The arts part was a display of art by Tulsa area students on the Autism ...
  6 hours ago

• Boy with autism finds, returns missing dog

  
  ohmidog! — Authority: 143
  When a Maltese-poodle mix named Mindy was found after being lost for 100 days in the woods of northwest Massachusetts, she was infested with fleas, her weight had dropped to three pounds, and her fur was so matted over her face that she couldn’t see, which explained why she was running around in circles. She was ...
  10 hours ago

• Resources regarding H1N1 and people with disabilities

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 127
  Here is an e-mail I received from Family Cafe. Dear Friend,   We would like to pass along some resources regarding H1N1 and people with disabilities that we received from the US Department of Health and Human Services.   The DHHS office for People with Disabilities can be found online at www.hhs.gov/od/ ...
  11 hours ago

• wai so srs?

  
  jazzsequence.com — Authority: 131
  image from www.splitreason.com so, on wednesday, a think tank in new jersey sent out a press release that they found a probable link to what may be responsible for the sudden, widespread increase of autism .  coming across this last night, i posted (along with a quote and a link to the press release) an ...
  15 hours ago

• Hey! Pseudoscientists! Leave them kids alone!

  
  A life less ordinary? — Authority: 127
  The name alone makes no sense: "Scientific Link to Autism Identified." What does that even mean? As opposed to a "nonscientific link"? A "religious link"? A "philosophical link"? A "chain link"? And it simply gets worse from there. First of all, if you can find a worse example of a news release, please ...
  20 hours ago

• John Travolta’s Wife Begs Him Not To Testify Again

  
  Famecrawler — Authority: 162
  John Travolta barely made it through the extremely painful process of recounting the events of his son Jett’s death last September, will he be back to relive the events yet again for the retrial? His wife Kelly Preston hopes not. She’s reportedly pleading with John to stay away from the witness stand , even ...
  21 hours ago

• Parent training boosts medication effect for autism

  
  Booster Shots — Authority: 700
  Life with a child who has a pervasive developmental disorder such as autism or Aspergers syndrome is often a storm of tantrums, irritability, impulsive behavior and obstinacy — a challenge that has child psychiatrists casting about for ways to help the stressed-out families of their patients, as well as the ...
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• The Role of High Level Play as a Predictor Social Functioning in Autism

  
  COMD News — Authority: 157
  Abstract Play and social abilities of a group of children diagnosed with high functioning autism were compared to a second group diagnosed with a variety of developmental language disorders (DLD). The children with autism engaged in fewer acts of high level play. The children with autism also had significantly lower ...
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• Seinfeld Confronted By Autistic

  
  AspieWeb.net — Authority: 419
  Jerry Seinfeld, a supporter of Autism Speaks was recently confronted by an Autistic Person outside a Autism Speaks fund raising event.  It was caught on video.  Jerry Seinfeld seems to be blowing off the person with Aspergers Syndrome who is asking him not to support Autism Speaks.  The person recording the video ...
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• Holiday Advice

  
  Social Skills for Kids — Authority: 104
  The holidays are coming up and for a lot of people that means getting together with extended family and relatives you haven’t seen in a while. This can be a great chance to connect, feel supported, even show off a bit with all the progress your child has made. But it can also mean unwanted advice. Your parents, ...
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• The Simple or the profound

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 127
  Paul, the apostle, was an amazing teacher.  His writings have a great gap between the most profound mysteries of the faith and the most simplistic and practice advice.  Each of the letters he wrote to the church or individuals began with a high theological thesis.  His letter to the Ephesians chapter one speaks of ...
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• What Influences the World We See

  
  Neoteny, sexual selection, cause of autism, human evolution, social transformation, left organizing and internet activism - how they all connect — Authority: 126
  I just noted a paper , Multiple ancient origins of neoteny in Lycidae (Coleoptera): consequences for ecology and macroevolution , that observes instances of neoteny compelling jumps in evolution.  One of the riddles of the career of Stephen J. Gould was how he seemed to rarely discuss how his deep insights focusing ...
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• 1 min. with a Superhero: Gerhard Pieterse of Autism Western Cape (on his way to Kilimanjaro!)

  
  Ideate — Authority: 132
  This afternoon we’re chatting with Gerhard Pieterse, who is climbing Kilimanjaro to raise awareness and funds for autism. Gerhard is the Chairman of Autism Western Cape * and stands at around 7ft tall in his socks. He’s aiming even higher today, leaving for Kilimanjaro on a new adventure in the cause of his ...
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• Three Years Ago Ava was Diagnosed with Autism

  
  Mutterings Of A Mindless Mommy — Authority:
  The years ago, on November 20, 2006, a local psychologist told me that Ava has autism . I can honestly say that I wasn’t completely surprised, I’ve always been an information junkie and kind of expected it but the words were still a bit of a shock to my system. However, I didn’t have much time to dwell on ...
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• Curemark Opens Patient Enrollment For Autism Treatment At Three More Clinical Trial Sites

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 727
  Curemark LLC, a drug research and development company focused on the treatment of neurological diseases, announced that the company has begun enrolling patients in Phase III clinical trials for CM-AT, its autism treatment, at three additional clinical trial sites.
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• scientific link to autism found; get your tinfoil hats because us loonies were right

  
  jazzsequence.com — Authority: 131
  in a completely, totally, ridiculously different direction that what the medical establishment has been lambasting at us for years, a think tank has uncovered a probable cause for autism.  you know all those people you think are insane for not getting their kids vaccinated?  well guess what…they’re right . ...
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