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Autism safety not “in the bag”
To those who celebrated, I hope your Christmas and New Years was a blessed one. I also wish the same for a nine-year-old autistic boy at the center of a Louisville, Kent. school controversy when word got out that staf… -
2011: The Year In Autism
2011 was a considerable year for television autism exposure. In April, Holly Robinson Peete hosted a weekly series on CBS daytime program The Talk. Although her contract wasn’t renewed for this season, throwin… -
The Onion Returns to Layering Autism
Intrigued by why my site received a spike in search traffic, I discovered The Onion brought back a well-known fictional character in the autism community: Michael Falk. Actor John Cariani returns for more lampooning… -
Autistic Children Have Heavier Brains?
A story picked up by several news outlets, including Reuters and ABC News (whose version I’m critiquing in this post), reports results of a small study published in the Journal of the American Medical Associat… -
Autism-Friendly Broadway
Returning to our dear friends at the Associated Press, their articles aren’t always found syndicated on other news sites. Take this story from AP drama writer Mark Kennedy, who reported on Broadway participat… -
Police and the Integration of Autistics
Courtesy Ernest Doroszuk, Toronto Sun Our latest story is part reporting, part editorial hailing from our neighbor to the north, Canada. Michele Mandel covers an incident at the Fairbank Memorial Day Care Centre whe… -
No Refuge for Unvaccinated in the West Coast
Last year, I explored a Frontline documentary on vaccinations, and the traveling crew visited a Washington city to hear from parents who opted out of vaccinations. The Seattle Times via the Associated Press published… -
Autism and the Brain
In a study published in the journal Nature and subsequently reported by Robert Langreth of Bloomberg News, Stanford University researchers found that stimulating brain cells with light in mice caused autism-like sy… -
Autistic Resources in the Twin Cities
We return to our backyard with a story from WCCO Radio’s Edgar Linares on a store that sells products designed to help children and adults on the autism spectrum develop Simply called The Autism Shop, owners C… -
Quest for autism's "holy grail"
As Andrew Wakefield continues to press forward with the vaccine link controversy (which is now being compared to other political debates where opponents repeatedly deny what almost all research suggests), the battle…
About theautisticjournalist
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- From: theautisticjournalist
- Name: Mike
- Location: St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
- About Me: Aspiring journalist, aspiring play-by-play commentator, blogger leading the way to change autism's perceptions.
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