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An Avalanche of Funding for Autism Science

The Autism Science Foundation is kicking off our month-long fundraising campaign “Recipe4Hope” –www.recipe4hope.org. Every dollar donated to the campaign will go directly to fund pre- and post-doctora…
Magnetic

I walked into the kitchen one morning this summer and found James preparing to dash his wooden trains through the air and against the wall. He was frustrated that he could not push them together. I showed him the roun…
Dr. Stephen Shore on PBS science series, NOVA

Autism Today is many things to many people, but above all it is a community, characterized by a high degree of interaction, accessibility and love, shared by every one of us with one another. Over more than a decade…
AUTISM: It's Who I AM

I was reading something my friend posted on Plurk the other day, about scientists creating autistic mice. I had read about this in the paper, and wasn’t really convinced by the whole thing. However, I do find a…
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…
From Cure to Community

In March of 2010, an article by Nancy Bagatell appeared in a special issue of Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology (Vol 38, Issue 1). It’s called From Cure to Community: Transforming Noti…
Social Stories and Science Camp

I’m told it’s a fifth grade rite of passage, but I can think of many other descriptions. Last year I remember “reading” about it and thinking, never in a month of Sundays.. and now it’s nea…
People Who Need People Are the Luckiest People in the World

Had a little feedback meeting with some parents this week who were trying out the Grace App for me in The Good School. One of the parents said that she felt, she needed more opportunities to get her son to need her,…
Water Glue - HomeSchool Science

We think of certain things as sticky – chewing gum, some kids of candy. And when you get something sticky on your skin, you often use water to get the sticky stuff off. But here’s a weird fact about wate…