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News Media and the Autism-Vaccine Controversy

There was an article in the Los Angeles Times March 13 (and widely distributed by the Associated Press) in which yet another reporter reported an unbalanced story–failing to report the “other side of the…
CBN News mentions Autisable

Every now and then you stumble across articles that may be of interest. Personally I seek articles that discuss Autisable so I can make mention of them on the site and elsewhere. Many times I find posts in forums o…
Defining Autism: A Perspective on DSM-5

You may have heard, read or seen the flap on the news. Parents of children on the autism spectrum and adults with high-functioning forms, such as Asperger's are. Not. Happy. Frankly, it's all so confusing and I wa…
The Proposed Change to the Definition of Autism

The following news video explains a little more about the proposed change to the definition of Autism: What do you think about these changes?
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…
Positivity is Powerful

A pretty exciting thing happened to me yesterday. I was contacted by a reporter for the “Weekly News” which is part of the D C Thomson & Co (a Glasgow Newspaper and media group) lovely guy interv…
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…
I Made Front Page News

Early Tuesday morning I’m awoken by an excited Little man. Oh, yes he knows what day it is… his been counting the days since Friday. We walked into our local newsagents a little after 6:30 am. Little man…
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…
Mental vs. Learning Disabilites.

USA Today reported findings of a telephone poll conducted by the Tremaine Foundation today, discovering that 79% of parents and 80% of non-parents associate learning disabilities with mental retardation (Acknowledged d…