Time once again to shed light on the recent autism report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the ensuing alarms set off by the media and those who seek to benefit from the so-called crisis. Before I continue, I write this in support of those families who actually have children with true autism, and in defense against those who place children on a spectrum and then claim to cure autism when thoseread more…
“Frozen Flyer” would be more appropriate this morning, as it is -4 degrees with a windchill of -20! I have been amazed at the arrogance of Newt Gingrich. He seems to think that he is more entitled to be President than anyone else. A note to Newt – it does matter to me that you cheated on your wives, because why should I expect that you will treat the country any differently? Your hypocrisy of slammingread more…
For those who read my blog regularly, you know that I am mom to a precious 9-year old named Hannah. You also know that shortly before the age of 3 she was diagnosed by Dr. Stephen Camarata at Vanderbilt University with a severe mixed expressive-receptive language disorder. The simple definition of this is “impairment in ability to both understand and express language”. The specifics in the DSM-IV can be found HERE. One of the early challengesread more…
The British Medical Journal today has published an investigative article disclosing that Andrew Wakefield’s study that caused the hysteria that vaccines cause autism, was more than a poorly done study, it was blatant fraud. Here’s the link to the first article in this special investigative series. Here’s the link to the editorial in the BMJ. Here’s a link to my post about autism and vaccines. If you’re new here, please also read my post entitled “OneMomread more…
I saw a story on CNN this morning about a robot. The lead-in was “the new face of autism”, but after seeing the story, I thought it curious that the headline featured autism, as that was only a tiny part of the story. I suppose “autism” has become so (falsely) widespread that it is one of those search engine optimization words (SEO), or as I refer to it “made you look” words. Anyway, the robot hasread more…
