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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  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”

• Conversations on Creativity with Daniel Tammet- Part IV, IQ and Human Intelligence

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  Although their unusual abilities compel considerable attention, there are fewer than 50 autistic savants worldwide. Daniel Tammet is one of them. Over 30 years, the London-born mathematical and language whiz has transformed from an awkward, reclusive boy into a confident adult. His quiet, private life of strict ...
  14 hours ago

• Autism Treatment Crisis: Insufficient Number of Providers

  
  Disabled World — Authority: 441
  Researchers and autism treatment providers agree that children with autism need increased access to evidence-based interventions.
  15 hours ago

• 2009’s Top 5 Threats To Science In Medicine

  
  Science-Based Medicine — Authority: 128
  As 2009 comes to an end, it seems that everyone is creating year-in-review lists. I thought I’d jump on the list band wagon and offer my purely subjective top 5 threats to rational thought in healthcare and medicine. Of course, it strikes me as rather ironic that we’re having this discussion – who knew that ...
  16 hours ago

• Autism and Evolution

  
  Neoteny, sexual selection, cause of autism, human evolution, social transformation, left organizing and internet activism - how they all connect — Authority: 125
  That I might have featured Asperger’s when I was young never crossed my mind until this year.  I’d been studying autism for 12 years.  Working for 12 years with the thesis that testosterone informed the rate of maturation, it never struck me that estrogen might manage the timing until last winter when I ...
  16 hours ago

• Autism Treatment Crisis: Insufficient Number Of Providers To Meet Alarming Increase In Need

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 702
  According to a study recently released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, it is estimated that approximately 673,000 children aged 3 - 21 have been diagnosed with autism nationwide. Leading researchers and autism treatment providers ...
  20 hours ago

• Latest study shows chelation therapy drug is safe and rewarding for children suffering from autism

  
  Therapist Unlimited Blog — Authority: 127
      Here is a piece of good news to all children facing autism worldwide. Two studies made were by the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine on the use of oral dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA), a prescription medicine approved by the FDA for treating lead poisoning, and used off-label in these studies for ...
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• Scenes From a Family Who Travels

  
  Squidalicious — Authority: 116
       Dont let the swimming kids fool you, folks -- it was 51°F outside. But the pool and hot tub are heated and hey, its Vegas (proof in the skyline behind that happy happy otter/dolphin boy). People do unexpected things.  Leo is having a good day today, still. The visual schedule, which ...
  1 day ago

• The four marks of a great autistic software engineer

  
  Autism Blogger - The Online Autism Support Group — Authority: 134
  On slashdot today, there was an article about why programmers are often not paid what they are worth , along with this comment about Larry Walls Virtues of a Programmer .     It struck me this might be instructive for parents of autistics, so heres my four marks of a great autistic software engineer (with ...
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• Your Story Ep 47 : Cliff. Food Allergies and Cancer Treatment from a Life in Science

  
  Your Story : How We Play the Game of Life — Authority: 91
  Welcome To Episode 47 of Your Story. Cliff Hawkins story is of someone who in helping his own family with food allergies discovers that he has found a mechanism to help the greater community with some of the most damaging and deadly autoimmune diseases and cancers. Only then to be financially destroyed by the ...
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• My “hostile” or “threatening” messages to the Age of Autism editors

  
  Left Brain/Right Brain — Authority: 131
  I’m critical of the Age of Autism blog and their so called “editors”. That comes as no news to anyone who has read this blog, I’m sure. But I found an odd bit in David N. Brown’s recent piece, Paul Offit’s Mythical Millions (v. 2) , when he noted that Mr. Mark Blaxill and Mr. Dan Olmsted wrote in a ...
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• Kim Peek, the original Rain Man, dies

  
  PID News — Authority: 150
  (Times Online) – Kim Peek, the autistic savant who inspired the Oscar-winning film Rain Man, has died, aged 58.via Times Online.
  1 day ago

• Does Intellectual Disability Make a Difference in Autism?

  
  Astrid's Journal — Authority: 124
  Why is it that I and other autistic people without intellectual disabilities, are assumed not to think that intellectual disability makes a difference to an individual with autism? In fact, I have always said that it does make a difference: in a recent comment on Facing Autism in New Brunswick , I actually made it ...
  1 day ago

• Can You Teach Empathy to Children?

  
  Motherlode — Authority: 604
  Are lessons about tolerance and inclusion and giving back really changing anyones children?
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• RE to IM on FaceBook – more detailed info about what started the witch accusations and harasment

  
  EK's Star Log — Authority: 129
  (ADDED NOTE: I’m a third generation LDS/Saint/Mormon; this answer went to a “new” fellow member who was asking what happened to inspire my previous post, this was my answer:)I got 3 windows each with 50 tabs open, and speakers on my computer zoned out a while back, so I don’t get the “beep” from FB [...]
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• The Irony of Successful Public Health

  
  The United States of Jamerica — Authority: 500
  Via Kevin Drum is a good USA Today article on the struggle to counter medical idiocy from celebrities: Doctors and public health groups say they struggle over the best way to respond to celebrity claims. At Every Child By Two, an immunization campaign co-founded by former first lady  Rosalynn Carter , board ...
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• Merry Christmas!

  
  BlogMommas.com — Authority: 123
  John 9:1-5 1 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life. 4 As long as ...
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• Boycotting The Haters

  
  StaticVox — Authority: 123
  Toys R Us, Zales, Lindt...and now my beloved Build-A-Bear Workshop and Bath & Body Works? Say it isnt so! But sadly, it is so. All of these companies support Autism Speaks, an organization that aims to silence the very people it claims to speak for. With an estimated 1 in 90 children now being born with some ...
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• Tired of people who dont care. :( Tired of the harsement. :(

  
  EK's Writing Blog — Authority: 130
  More harassment from local church members again today. The weather is at -10F right now. It snowed yesterday. And as I have done for the past 4 years, I was out shoveling the snow while wearing sandals and no socks and a summer cotton dress under a silk kimono. These are the only pair of shoes I have. I have no socks. ...
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• SafeMinds Chastises the CDC for New Autism Study

  
  The Autism Education Site — Authority: 106
  Yesterday I published information about the CDC new study, which shows that 1 in 110 children in the United States have autism . The study results were published last Friday and on Monday, SafeMinds published their own press release chastising the CDC. SafeMinds stands for Sensible Action for Ending Mercury-Induced ...
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• Autism Treatment Crisis: Insufficient Number of Providers to Meet Alarming Increase in Need

  
  eReleases Press Release Headlines — Authority: 447
  
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