Advocacy and Autism Spectrum Disorders

Today’s Hope is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide families of children who have Autism Spectrum Disorders with access to early intervention services, specifically early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI). According to the Association for Science in Autism...  

A new study from Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics asks What Can We Learn about Autism from Autistic Persons? Is that a question that needs to be asked? Over at Science Daily, a review of the study is given the title “What Happens When We Ask Autistic Persons What Is Wrong With Them?“ I kind of...  

Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Paperback) newly tagged "diet" October 6th, 2008 Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A...  

To raise awareness, funds, and provide information, Autism Speaks Southeast Michigan is sponsoring a Walk Now for Autism event on Sunday at The Palace of Auburn Hills.  

The October 6th Arizona Republic describes a program developed by the Phoenix-based Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center to help autistic children “successfully fit into the often intimidating social mix of recess.” Autistic students are first taught board games or tag or other games and...  

(ARA) - Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is on the rise, now affecting approximately 1 in 150 children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  

Asperger’s Syndrome (AS) or High Functioning Autism (HFA) is an autism spectrum disorder that affects around 1,000,000 Americans. In the Xlibris release, Aspie: Memoirs on the Blessings and Burdens ... read more  

Asperger's Syndrome or High Functioning Autism is an autism spectrum disorder that affects around 1,000,000 Americans.  

Charlie’s an only child and we’ve plenty going on: In Michigan, the Johnson family have four daughters, all of whom are autistic. An article (dated January 28th) in MLive.com describes the family and each daughter. The Kirton family have six children and all are autistic. “Autism X 6,” a...  

I once watched this very fascinating documentary on Temple Grandin , a highly functional autistic American woman.  

Thinking again about what happens for autistic kids after school ends: At Midwestern State University in Kansas, six students are living in the “initium house,” KAUZ reports. Three of the students are on the autism spectrum and three are peer mentors. They have daily study groups and weekly...  

Over at the Science Blogs Book Club I put up a post asking about framing autism. (On framing, see this post on framing vaccines by Orac. Tags: asd, asperger, autism, autism blog, Books, disabilities blog, disability, framing, Health, immunization, jenny mccarthy, measles, mercury, mmr, Myth...  

Academics at the University of Nottingham are looking for volunteers to help an investigation in to autism.  

In keeping with my back-to-school / vaccine theme at the start of September, I want to report on one more study investigating the safety of vaccines.  

book before, so no peer review expert will admit to us and frankly we function too well to be considered Autistic. The Autism we have figured out is the very key to man's mind and it explains everything from stuttering to dyslexia. ...