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Autism Learningfelt: NY Governor Responds to Autism Questions

It took a while, but I finally received a response from the emails I sent to different Governors around the country. Unfortunately, Gov. David A. Patterson, NY, is not the one who replied. It was Ellen J. Anderson, M.…
New studies of autism and vaccines

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has adopted a five-year vaccine research agenda that finally points federally funded researchers toward studying whether vaccines cause autism. Those in the autism communit…
Video: Vaccine pioneer admits dangerous science

Submission date: 2/20/11 Original title: Vaccine pioneer admits dangerous science Dr. Joseph Mercola, internet health guru, cues us into a video this week. In it, Dr. Maurice Hilleman, a vaccine science pioneer who died…
The Strength to Change

Life has been extremely difficult for most of us over the past few years. People have lost their jobs, houses, and just about everything during this financial crisis. With that said, I wanted to address how the past…
Discrimination of people with ASD in Sweden

Today after the EU programmes and declarations, about stop the discrimination and the call to change attitudes towards the people with Neuropsychiatric diagnosis, we would been more accepted and would have a bigger ch…
Update on the Autism Act 2009 in England

The Autism Act 2009 was the first ever disability-specific law in England. This Act did two main things. First to put a duty on the Government to produce a strategy for adults with autism, which was published on 2nd M…
Newly Diagnosed Autistic Children and their Entitlements

by Jean. When our kids are diagnosed with autism, we have a seething stew of emotions to deal with, ranging from disbelief to rage to relief (with roughly a thousand more emotional grenades in between). What we give s…
The Surest of Starts: Universal Service in the UK

This afternoon, my daughter and I are going to a Mum and Toddler group to do some messy play. Like many other children her age, she goes to Nursery, sometimes to a place at childcare. She sees a health visitor, and has…
State Contracts and Speech Therapy

Ava had a good speech therapist. She was compassionate, educated and full of energy and love for her job. Ava liked her. They were working well together. She didn't push Ava too hard, but Ava liked the sessions and…
Bureaucrats, Pharmacists and Dumb and Dumber on the Hill

I have a new one for everyone, something I can honestly say has never happened before. After visiting the neurologist and being given the usual scripts for medication for the boys, I took them to my pharmacy to get fi…