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McCain, Obama, And The Politics of Homogenizing Autism
In response to the Autism Society of America and National Health Council’s recent Town Hall Meeting on health reform, both presidential candidates, Senators McCain and Obama, stated their respective positions on autism and how our government should respond. Both acknowledge the seriousness of addressing...
Welcome to the Autism At Home Series
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We are excited to share the thoughts, tips and strategies of some of the top-rated autism experts in the world with you. All of the articles listed under Featured Articles are available to everyone. We also interview a different expert every month and these are recorded and posted online. We know you...
September Teleseminar with Expert Bill Davis – Family Dynamics in an Autistic Household
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The September Autism At Home Series Teleseminar was held on Monday, September 21, and was a stunning success. Our resident Family Dynamics and Safety Expert Bill Davis shared his top tips and strategies to make life at home more enjoyable. If you missed this call, stay tuned as the recording will be...
Going Green: Children with Special Needs
Many people have admirably begun to focus on reducing the negative impact of our society on the environment. We use the term “green” to indicate anything that reduces energy consumption, carbon emissions, or waste of natural resources. The benefit to the Earth is clear, but there are benefits to...
The Guilt Factor
When a child is diagnosed with autism, parents develop a new vocabulary. Conversations contain words like ABA, receptive and expressive language, discrete trial training, eye contact, floor time and biomedical approaches. Parents share their joys, their fears, their strategies and their dreams. ...
The Back Room Kids: Shame, Guilt, and the Autism Myth
Last fall, I made an autism presentation in Los Angeles to a group of 200 exclusively Spanish-speaking parents. They were grateful and gracious, and many made efforts to communicate with me in English (I otherwise had translators). When I stood before them, I affirmed that their autistic children are...
A Shift In Understanding
The first two essays in this series presented a broad overview of many of the films produced over the past forty years that have portrayed the many facets of the human condition. In this essay I want to focus on several books that have brought about fundamental shifts in our understanding of autism,...
The Musical Brain
Music as therapy is becoming the new “it” discussion. With high profile books such as Oliver Sack’s “Musicophilia” and Daniel Levitin’s bestseller “This is Your Brain on Music,” music as therapy is making its’ way into mainstream media. Both books identify music as a very complex brain...
Bending Is Believing
During infancy and childhood, there are several pivotal times for the development of gross motor movements and muscular development. Parents are often concerned if a child does not reach a particular age-related goal (walking, for example) within a narrow time frame. Children will vary in their gross...
The Case For Addressing Theory of Mind Deficits in Language Intervention
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06 17th, 2009 |
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Many years ago Charles Hart, author of Without Reason: A Family Copes with Two Generations of Autism, shared a story about his son Ted that gave me a window both on the social / communication problems that are hallmark features of autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and their relationship to theory of mind....