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Scenes from an Autistic Household During Frankenstorm

Tuesday evening, La Casa de Awesome. Ryan: Can I watch tv before the lights come on? Mom: No, baby, there's no electricity. The tv needs electricity.
How Does Your Child Watch TV?

This is completely random but I thought it could be interesting nonetheless. So here’s what happened. Emmett has this thing about watching TV while hanging upside down. I suspect this is sensory related but it c…
Recounting the Autism Society 43rd Annual Conference

August 15, 2012 This year, I was very fortunate to get my “big break” with The Autism Channel, a 24-hour, on-demand streaming service that will bring autism-spectrum content into the homes of families around…
Your Special Needs Child and The Media

First of all…let’s make sure we’re all on the same page... MEDIA: (mee-dee-uh)”The means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines, that reach or influence people wide…
Should Joe Scarborough Apologize for Autism Comment?

“As soon as I hear about this shooting, I knew who it was. I knew it was a young, white male, probably from an affluent neighborhood, disconnected from society — it happens time and time again. Most of it h…
Autism Speaks Co-Founders Appear on NBC Nightly News

On May 1, Autism Speaks Co-Founders Bob and Suzanne Wright appeared on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams for an interview about the Theatre Development Fund’s highly successful Autism Theatre Initiative to ma…
My Life is an Episode of The Big Bang Theory

OK we love Sheldon, Leonard, Raj, Howard (yes even Howard), Penny, Bernadette and Amy. Nope don't like Pria not one rupee. Not because she replaced Penny in Leonard's affection, but because quite frankly, she is a…
Thoughts Sparked by the TV

Late last night the TV was on, like usual. I wasn’t really paying attention to it, I don’t normally unless there is something on worth getting my attention. It wasn’t until I heard something about…
When Does Humor Go Too Far?

Tonight I write this post about an important issue that has really been irritating me these past few weeks. Being me, I just can’t leave it be and found myself needing to raise the issue here on the blog. So, wh…
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…