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Niamh's Legacy

In the next few days I am going to write a long article about Niamh Cadogan. At the moment it hurts too much to think about it for too long. I have been looking at her emails she sent me, which included a lot of photos…
The 3 D's and your Special Needs Child

A note to my readers: The following is a political post. If you believe that it is permitted: to walk into a pizza parlor in Tel Aviv and blow yourself up, to blow up a school bus full of children in Jerusalem, at…
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 Lights in Russia: Sergei Morozova - Svetlana Morozova

Sergei Morozova and his daughter Svetlana Morozova run the main autism charity in Moscow, Russia called the Dobra Association for Autistic Children. Sergio and Svetlana are Autism Lights because of the leadership and…
Idle Hands and Autistic Children

Recently, this weekend, my son got up and took very good care of himself without waking us. He got dressed, made himself a toaster waffle (with peanut butter), and then played in his room until we woke up. We thought i…
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…
Friendships and Autistics

I often hear people talk about how important friendships are, to have friends, to be social, to interact with your fellow human beings. Sometimes I question this because really, who says that you have to? Who says tha…
I'm Pregnant with an Autistic Child

Obviously, that statement is far away from entering the lexicon of childbirth, and unless I’m asked to re-enact a Cosby Show episode where Bill dreams most of the show’s male characters are pregnant (he g…
Princess Tiana's magical autism moment

Ever experienced a 'down' day when you've felt your work is unnoticed and under appreciated? Well, I had one of those yesterday while stressing over the writing of an article titled, "The benefits of Autistic Travel…
Moving Upward

We have what might be one of the most important IEP meetings of Little Miss’s life coming up the first week of March: transition into junior high school. She’ll be moving from the school with the autism…