Blog Posts - Autism

As a teacher of life skills classes for college students on the Autism spectrum, Rebecca Zebrowski wanted to know more about what really made her […]...

"Human autism is comorbid with epilepsy, yet, little is known about the causes or risk factors leading to this combined neurological syndrome. Although genetic predisposition can play a substantial role, our objective was to investigate whether mater...

My oldest and my youngest child have had similar situations when transitioning to school. We're not a daycare family, we didn't overly socialize our children preferring to do things with our own family most of the time and so because of that both of...

How sweet the sound of Jonah’s laughter!  What a gift to us this Thanksgiving Day. Against all odds Andy was able to drive him up with just a minor incident of aggression – and once at grandma’s house, Jonah was gleeful and good. ...

How sweet the sound of Jonah’s laughter!  What a gift to us this Thanksgiving Day. Against all odds Andy was able to drive him up with just a minor incident of aggression – and once at grandma’s house, Jonah was gleeful and good. ...

Carnegie Mellon University scientists have discovered a crucial difference in the way learning occurs in the brains of adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Published in NeuroImage, Sarah Schipul and Marcel Just examined how the brains of typic...

While we’re on the topic of facilitated communication (FC or “supported typing” or “rapid prompting”), readers might want to watch a TEDx presentation by Professor Matt Brodhead. As though familiar with TED talks know, t...

Slate medical reporter David Auerbach published a thorough examination of the short-comings of facilitated communication in an article entitled “Facilitated Communication Is a Cult That Won’t Die. His analysis is too long to summarize here. R...

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When we visit with him, we can sometimes see that he is acting what we call "squirrely" - a certain look in his eye, a ramping up of his OCD, but this is no real guarantee that he'll attack one of us. And on other occasions he seems calm. Fine. And...

When we visit with him, we can sometimes see that he is acting what we call "squirrely" - a certain look in his eye, a ramping up of his OCD, but this is no real guarantee that he'll attack one of us. And on other occasions he seems calm. Fine. And...

Experts can rattle off autism-linked genes, but other risks are very hard to pin down.  A nice review of some of the environmental factors , and the problems associated with measurement and replication. pub-5799224524264318...

We celebrated our oldest daughter Siobhan's 16th birthday at the end of September and one of the things she really wanted to do for her birthday was to visit some attractions which she had on her list of favourite things to do, top of the list was a...

A wonderfully comprehensive (mostly) look at the budding science of nutrigenomics for dogs -though just as easily applicable to us humans! Dodds covers a lot of ground in this book, looking at how nutrition effects the expression of genes (epigenetic...

The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) has been on the rise over recent years. The presence of diverse subsets of candidate genes in each individual with an ASD and the vast variability of phenotypical differences suggest that the interfe...

It's time for my marvellous monthly instalment of Who's The Daddy - a series of guest posts from the uber talented Daddy bloggers out there, so many of whom I now count as great mates! Read more...

    I worked for our local school district last year. I am the president-elect of our PTA and chair or co-chair of four other PTA areas as well as serve as room representative. I am that parent who tries to help and make their children̵...

It's National Curry Week, so this week I feel honoured to interview Anjula Devi for my Wonderful Women series. Read more...

What Causes Autism? There is no known single cause of autism.    It is known that autism is a neurological disorder, and that there are differences in the shape and the structure of the brain of autistic children as opposed to non-autist...

    Blue Man Group is something I wanted to see and experience since I first heard about it a long time ago. Life was crazy as a single parent to my three older kids and I never got a chance to go. Once I got married, we added to our family...

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