We Go With Him

I remember "Dr. Mercola" who is, this late July Saturday morning in the second year of the Covid-19 pandemic and Charlie's work program in continued... Read more →

No, I do not mean to imply that climate change causes autism. Climage change is real, autism is real and the temperature (with barometric pressure... 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 →

One can only hope. Here's the post over Care2.com, Vaccines Don't Cause Autism, No They Don't. Read more →

Autistic children are slower to integrate multiple stimuli than same-age children whose development is more typical, according to a recently published study in Autism Research.... 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 →

The significance of Charlie standing by our front door, raring to go on an evening walk yesterday with Jim (it was raining; Charlie pulled on... Read more →

At Charlie's spring concert last Wednesday, one of the classes of high school students sang the first verse from 'Camelot,' the Lerner and Loewe musical... Read more →

Write a post on vaccines and get lotsa comments, and perhaps especially if you take the position that vaccines and autism aren't linked; that autism... Read more →

Sunday was fireworks-less in our household. Charlie slept in a little (till 8am). We did walks (2---short and long) and rides (3---school, grocery store, Jersey... 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 →

Such as Raising kids may lower blood pressure. No, I'm not trying to be sarcastic. It's a study by Brigham Young University scientists and was... 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 →

Tuesday morning I was feeling more grateful than usual to have my job (which I'm generally ultra-grateful to have at all, as a (full-time) working... Read more →

Cognitive Dysfunction Reversed in Mouse Model of Down Syndrome was the headline for a new study by researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine... Read more →

My son started taking Risperdal in the spring of 2004, when he was 7 1/2 years old, for self-injurious behaviors (head-banging). Charlie was already taking... Read more →

Charlie woke up before 6am on Tuesday morning (or maybe it was more like 5.15am). He hung out on in the living room wrapped in... Read more →

Who has seen the wind Neither you nor I; But when the trees bend down their heads The wind is passing by. This is a... Read more →

After almost a week of lazing around, taking frequent naps, eating his favorite foods (except for white rice, which he has summarily turned his nose... Read more →