It’s National Disabilty Employment Awareness Month…and the month before the presidential election. Barack Obama has issued a statement on his attitudes towards this very important subject.
The Federal Government’s Office of Disablity Employment Policy has this to say about this “Awareness Month”
Congress designated each October as National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). The Office [...]

In a story entitled Parents: Therapist cheated autistic children, The Advocate of Stamford Connecticut reports on alleged misrepresentation and bad billing from a local ABA provider.
The director of the program lists credentials as a masters and doctorate from NYU, and a BCBA certification. The parents are questioning this, asking for evidence. The school [...]

I started this blog by doing some pieces on blogs I’ve liked–as I’ve added them to the blogroll, I gave a description of why. I haven’t done it in a while, but I’ve got a lot of blogs I’d like to add.
This addition is sWell, written by Dr. Rahul Parikh. Dr. Parikh is [...]

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has a long history of extreme activism.
Now, they are using autism as a tool in their activism. They have a billboard campaign (one billboard) that takes off on the “Got Milk?” campaign with “Got Autism?”
PETA uses the idea that some groups believe dairy products are [...]

The NIH has a committee called the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee. Their main goal has been to create a “Strategic Plan”. That’s basically a roadmap for where research should concentrate efforts for the next few years.
They want your input. The official request for information is here.
It boils down to this: send an [...]

Imagine that childhood game were you whisper a story into one kid’s ear. He whispers it into another kid’s ear. She whispers it into another kid’s ear…
By the time the story gets back to you, it has completely changed.
Now imagine that people aren’t whispering, but instead commenting in the press or blogs. [...]

Vaccines get a lot of coverage on the autism blogs. One can claim too much
I just saw this document, Clear Answers & Smart Advice About Your Baby’s Shots by Dr. Ari Brown. This is one that is definitely going on the main autismlibrary.org website right away. It takes a huge amount of [...]

It is well known that there is a link between autism and epilepsy. I’ve heard numbers as high as 20% as to the fraction of people with autism who also have epilepsy, but this number appears to be going down with time.
A recent paper has just become available online: Epilepsy in Autismnext term is [...]

There was much discussion (and there remains much discussion!) about comments that Dr. Bernadine Healy made in her interviews with Sharyl Attkisson (autismvox, denialism, LeftBrainRightBrain, to name a few) .  Dr. Healy suggested that the Institute of Medicine’s report on vaccines and autism is flawed becuase, in her assertion (a) the IOM (and others) are [...]

OK, ths post is late. The latest study (Hornig et al.) has been covered over and over again by blogs.
The basic idea is simple: try to recreate the work of Dr. Andrew Wakfield, whose 1998 and 2002 studies are what has really fueled the idea that MMR and autism are linked.
In the present study, [...]