Sounds (a Crash) and Sense
10 April 2011
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 →
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 →