We Go With Him

Charlie woke around 5am Sunday morning and, after staying in his bedroom for awhile, went downstairs, knocked everything off my desk and sent a bookshelf... Read more →

Monday morning I was trying out a new route to drive Charlie to school that, Jim reported, had taken them a mere 34 minutes on... Read more →

A few thoughts of mine on two new studies regarding the detection of autism in infants over at Care2.com ending with some musings about how,... Read more →

Autism: A Disease of the Rich? is the title of a New York Times Freakonomics blog post on this PLOS One study, Socioeconomic Inequality in... Read more →

I'm pleased to report that we made it through an unexpected Snow Day 2 with only: a 4.55am wake-up 1 instance of dishes-throwing, coupled with... Read more →

Jim went to Philadelphia yesterday to give a talk to an Irish lawyers group (last week it was the Celtic Medical Society or some such... Read more →

Here in the US, when people hear that autism was referred to as "childhood schizophrenia" in the first edition of the DSM (1952), they're often... Read more →

Nothing like reading a research study that actually describes something that (we think) we definitely see in Charlie, a delay in his processing of auditory... Read more →

We were a half-hour late for what turned out to be a rather non-eventful neurologist appointment---something I'm taking as a sign of progress. It was,... Read more →

A new Pediatrics study of how "highly effective" early intervention can be for toddlers on the autism spectrum has been getting quite a bit of... Read more →

Friday afternoon found me sitting in my office. Jim does not teach on Fridays and is able to pick up Charlie. So I was able... Read more →

(Originally published 3 January 2009, 11:16:00 UTV, at Change.org) It seems that our list of autism controversies is proving to be, well, controversial and, in... Read more →

(If you were not able to reach this website by typing in autismland.com, please read this.) We attained a few milestones today, albeit unintentionally. "He's... Read more →

"Cut." Charlie emerged from the open refrigerator with the half-watermelon I had just bought at the A & P. He held it solemnly in both... Read more →

In the midst of talking to a student about applying for numerous fellowships and graduate school programs, I paused and asked: "But what about if... Read more →

When I first started blogging at My Son Has Autism, the earlier incarnation of this blog, I wrote that "Finding out your child has autism... Read more →

Once upon a time, July 22 was just another day of the year for me---the only significance I attached to it was that, my father's... Read more →

I used to pick up Charlie almost every day when he attended his old public school autism classroom and, over time, the main information passed... Read more →

A few weeks ago, Katie Grant wrote an article in The Sunday Times, Scotland, Some ‘autistic’ children aren’t ill, they’re just badly behaved in which... Read more →

Of course the powers that be at Time magazine could not have known that their May 7, 2006, cover story on autism, Inside the Autistic... Read more →