One of the biggest issues in the autism community, I believe, is obtaining appropriate insurance coverage. This is heard most often from parents of younger children.
I was lucky enough to win insurance coverage for my child, covering speech therapy, occupational therapy, and ABA.
There are so many issues involved with insurance that I’ve been unable [...]

The Autism Omnibus Proceedings (OAP) are the “Vaccine Court trial” that is deciding whether autism can be legally considered a vaccine injury. The OAP were held as a series of “test cases” which would allow the Court to consider the proposed theories of how vaccines might cause autism. Each “test case” was a [...]

…it says so right on the sticker they gave me!
This has been the first election in a very long time where it really felt important. Funny, that, since I am in a state where it pretty much a forgone conclusion who will win  our electoral votes.
I can’t tell you what, then makes me want [...]

The Today show did a segment this week on vaccines and autism. Along with Dr. Paul Offit, Kristina Chew (AutismVox) was interviewed.
As an aside from the vaccine debate, I think we all need to say, “Go Charlie!!!”. I’ve read about Charlie (and dad) and the bike rides, now I’ve seen it. [...]

Let’s start with a cool comment I read early in the week. This is from Jeanette, aka mom26children.
I rest my very tired head, every night…I say my prayers and thank God for giving me the ability to be these children’s Mother. I thank God for the blessings I have received. I thank God for [...]

I should have thought about blogging this sooner. LeftBrainRightBrain has blogged it now. Also, I speak of dreams and other blogs.
Every Child by Two has asked its membership to “Please Take The Time To Contact The Oprah Winfrey Show”.  The letter is below.  Reprinted with permission–but I think they are happy to see [...]

It’s pretty clear, I think, to anyone reading the variety of blogs in the autism “community” that there are big divisions. No factor is as divisive as the vaccine/autism notion, and in a short time Jenny McCarthy has come to be the representative of it.
Blogs have been covering Jenny McCarthy since her [...]

As a break from the usual blogfare, there is a Titoism post up at\LeftbrainRightBrain this week. If you haven’t read blog posts by Tito Mukhopadhyay (a young adult with autism), or even if you have, it’s worth reading Creativity.
Probably the big news item for the week was the Presidential Debates. Senator McCain pulled [...]

I hope I didn’t lose too many people with that title–A lot of people might be thinking this will be more of the recent wave of autism on talkshows.
Instead, let me talk about an hour of Autism (yes, an entire hour, not just an interview/book-plug). Yes, there were celebrities: Joe Mantenga and Didi [...]

I recently read a rather disturbing blog post “The Present Crisis and the National Autistic Society” over at Action for Autism.
The crisis he is referring to is the very real financial meltdown in the world’s economy. This led to the collapse of Iceland’s banking system which, due to the high interest rates they were [...]