Autism in the News
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Research
The allure of snake oil for parents of autistic children (Canada)
Jeanette Holden remembers her parents struggling to comprehend why her younger brother had autism. Read more.
A study linking vaccines to autism is discredited, but a local activist remains a believer (Madison, Wis.)
The paper that helped trigger fear that a routine childhood vaccine might lead to autism was retracted recently by a respected medical journal, raising hopes that those looking to solve the mysteries of this developmental disorder will focus their energies elsewhere. Read more.
Autism Science Foundation Announces 2010 Doctoral Training Award Recipients (New York, N.Y.)
The Autism Science Foundation, a not-for-profit organization founded in April 2009 and dedicated to supporting and funding autism research, announced today that it had awarded doctoral training fellowships to six pre-doctoral students committed to pursuing careers in basic and clinical scientific research relevant to autism spectrum disorders. In all, $180,000 in grants will be distributed to student/mentor teams conducting research in autism treatment, biomarkers, animal models, and epidemiology. Read more.
Both Parents' Ages Linked to Autism Risk (NYT.com)
Older mothers are more likely than younger ones to have a child with autism, and older fathers significantly contribute to the risk of the disorder when their partners are under 30, researchers are reporting. Read more.
Treatment
More Therapy Options Available In Wausau for Children With Autism (Wausau, Wis.)
Parents of children withautism now have another treatment option in Wausau.
Read more.
Education
Mother of Special Needs Student Upset over Alleged Abuse (Edinburg, Texas)
Public Health
When to Worry if a Child Has Too Few Words (NYT.com)
There is nothing simple about speech, and there is nothing simple about speech delay – starting with the challenge of diagnosing it. Read more.
Resources
Calling all campers (Denver, Colo.)
It might have been a wonderful experience at age 10, hiking or acting or painting and, most important, bonding with a handful of great friends. Or perhaps it was a memorable moment swimming, splashing and laughing with buddies when life's future seemed as brilliant as the sky overhead. Read more.
Miracle League is About More than Baseball (Fox Valley, Wis.)
The Miracle League organization, which gives children with special needs the opportunity to live out their baseball dreams, is expanding to the Fox Valley. Read more.
Expert to present autism workshop in La Verne (La Verne, Calif.)
Behavioral support specialist Boyd Bradshaw will speak on "Bringing Sensory Integration and Behavioral Support into the Home" and the benefits to children with autism this month at a free autism parenting workshop sponsored by the School for Autism at the LeRoy Haynes Center in La Verne. Read more.
Kids with Down syndrome, autism and other special-needs kids find calm and balance through yoga classes (Dallas, Texas)
Six-year-old Alexander Mitchell of Dallas has trouble keeping up with other kids. Read more.
People
Cops check 'slay-mom' laptop (New York, N.Y.)
Cops probing the Peninsula hotel slaying of an 8-year-old boy are scouring his mother's laptop and other electronic devices after she confessed in a rambling e-mail that she poisoned her son to protect him from a life of sexual abuse. Read more.
Church volunteer jailed for abusing children (UK)
A church volunteer who befriended families to ease his abuse of young children – then bragged of the results online – was today given a 12-year sentence. Read more.
Emil Tzekov arrives to claim son Jude Mirra's body; suspect Gigi Jordan remains in psychiatric ward (Daily News)
Little Jude Mirra's father arrived in New York red-eyed and haggard to claim the body of his 8-year-old son. Read more.
Long Island mom of autistic boy: I relate to slay suspect Gigi Jordan's feeling of desperation (Daily News)
Long Island mom Alison Giangregorio read the story of Gigi Jordan with tears streaming down her face. Read more.
Blessings to count (Sacramento, Calif.)
They are both Harvard-educated and in their late 30s – he a cardiologist, she a pediatrician. They have three children, a boy and two girls, with a fourth on the way. They have a spacious home in Sacramento's Pocket neighborhood. Read more.
Real killer is still ‘out there,' teenager said (Boston.com)
The teenager accused of murder in the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old freshman in a boys' bathroom at Lincoln-Sudbury High School told a friend he was being “persecuted'' for trying to help the victim and that the real killer was still “out there.'' Read more.
Prisoner in her own house (Canada)
A Westville mother has reached the breaking point over care for her autistic daughter.
Angela Hanebury's daughter, Rebecca Falconer, was diagnosed with the disorder when she was about 2 1/2 years old. Read more.
Local Student Helps raise money for Autism (Plano, Texas)
After showing much passion and enthusiasm at last year's event one kid is heading up a yearly fundraiser for Autism. Read more.
Temple Grandin, animal science expert, autism advocate to visit Abilene (Abilene, Texas)
Temple Grandin admits it was more than a bit strange to watch herself – in a manner of speaking – in the HBO movie that both bears her name and tells her life story. Read more.
Playing the changes (Boston, Mass.)
The scrawny kid with the squeaky voice and Harry Potter glasses, the jazz prodigy from Sudbury whose feet didn't reach the piano pedals when he began performing and recording, the autistic grade-schooler who dazzled everybody from Dave Brubeck to David Letterman with his keyboard wizardry, is growing up. Read more.
A world of art opens for Mater Dei's Luke Faint (Australia)
Art has opened up a new world for Luke Faint, a student at Mater Dei School, Cobbitty. Read more.
Autism Speaks News
Boy makes art to auction off for Autism Speaks (Lake in the Hills, Ill.)
When 9-year-old Evan McClintock has trouble speaking, he uses his drawings to communicate. Read more.
Toys"R"Us, Inc. Expands its Support of Autism Speaks Throughout North America (Wayne, N.J.)
Today, Toys"R"Us, Inc. and the Toys"R"Us Children's Fund announced they have expanded their support of Autism Speaks to include a fundraising campaign in all of the company's stores in North America ... Read more.
The allure of snake oil for parents of autistic children (Canada)
Jeanette Holden remembers her parents struggling to comprehend why her younger brother had autism. Read more.
A study linking vaccines to autism is discredited, but a local activist remains a believer (Madison, Wis.)
The paper that helped trigger fear that a routine childhood vaccine might lead to autism was retracted recently by a respected medical journal, raising hopes that those looking to solve the mysteries of this developmental disorder will focus their energies elsewhere. Read more.
Autism Science Foundation Announces 2010 Doctoral Training Award Recipients (New York, N.Y.)
The Autism Science Foundation, a not-for-profit organization founded in April 2009 and dedicated to supporting and funding autism research, announced today that it had awarded doctoral training fellowships to six pre-doctoral students committed to pursuing careers in basic and clinical scientific research relevant to autism spectrum disorders. In all, $180,000 in grants will be distributed to student/mentor teams conducting research in autism treatment, biomarkers, animal models, and epidemiology. Read more.
Both Parents' Ages Linked to Autism Risk (NYT.com)
Older mothers are more likely than younger ones to have a child with autism, and older fathers significantly contribute to the risk of the disorder when their partners are under 30, researchers are reporting. Read more.
Treatment
More Therapy Options Available In Wausau for Children With Autism (Wausau, Wis.)
Parents of children with
Education
Mother of Special Needs Student Upset over Alleged Abuse (Edinburg, Texas)
A mother wants to know what happened to her son. She found bruises on her son's arm after school. It was enough to send her to Edinburg School District Police. The mom claims the teachers need more training. The district isn't saying much.
Read more.
Public Health
When to Worry if a Child Has Too Few Words (NYT.com)
There is nothing simple about speech, and there is nothing simple about speech delay – starting with the challenge of diagnosing it. Read more.
Resources
Calling all campers (Denver, Colo.)
It might have been a wonderful experience at age 10, hiking or acting or painting and, most important, bonding with a handful of great friends. Or perhaps it was a memorable moment swimming, splashing and laughing with buddies when life's future seemed as brilliant as the sky overhead. Read more.
Miracle League is About More than Baseball (Fox Valley, Wis.)
The Miracle League organization, which gives children with special needs the opportunity to live out their baseball dreams, is expanding to the Fox Valley. Read more.
Expert to present autism workshop in La Verne (La Verne, Calif.)
Behavioral support specialist Boyd Bradshaw will speak on "Bringing Sensory Integration and Behavioral Support into the Home" and the benefits to children with autism this month at a free autism parenting workshop sponsored by the School for Autism at the LeRoy Haynes Center in La Verne. Read more.
Kids with Down syndrome, autism and other special-needs kids find calm and balance through yoga classes (Dallas, Texas)
Six-year-old Alexander Mitchell of Dallas has trouble keeping up with other kids. Read more.
People
Cops check 'slay-mom' laptop (New York, N.Y.)
Cops probing the Peninsula hotel slaying of an 8-year-old boy are scouring his mother's laptop and other electronic devices after she confessed in a rambling e-mail that she poisoned her son to protect him from a life of sexual abuse. Read more.
Church volunteer jailed for abusing children (UK)
A church volunteer who befriended families to ease his abuse of young children – then bragged of the results online – was today given a 12-year sentence. Read more.
Emil Tzekov arrives to claim son Jude Mirra's body; suspect Gigi Jordan remains in psychiatric ward (Daily News)
Little Jude Mirra's father arrived in New York red-eyed and haggard to claim the body of his 8-year-old son. Read more.
Long Island mom of autistic boy: I relate to slay suspect Gigi Jordan's feeling of desperation (Daily News)
Long Island mom Alison Giangregorio read the story of Gigi Jordan with tears streaming down her face. Read more.
Blessings to count (Sacramento, Calif.)
They are both Harvard-educated and in their late 30s – he a cardiologist, she a pediatrician. They have three children, a boy and two girls, with a fourth on the way. They have a spacious home in Sacramento's Pocket neighborhood. Read more.
Real killer is still ‘out there,' teenager said (Boston.com)
The teenager accused of murder in the fatal stabbing of a 15-year-old freshman in a boys' bathroom at Lincoln-Sudbury High School told a friend he was being “persecuted'' for trying to help the victim and that the real killer was still “out there.'' Read more.
Prisoner in her own house (Canada)
A Westville mother has reached the breaking point over care for her autistic daughter.
Angela Hanebury's daughter, Rebecca Falconer, was diagnosed with the disorder when she was about 2 1/2 years old. Read more.
Local Student Helps raise money for Autism (Plano, Texas)
After showing much passion and enthusiasm at last year's event one kid is heading up a yearly fundraiser for Autism. Read more.
Temple Grandin, animal science expert, autism advocate to visit Abilene (Abilene, Texas)
Temple Grandin admits it was more than a bit strange to watch herself – in a manner of speaking – in the HBO movie that both bears her name and tells her life story. Read more.
Playing the changes (Boston, Mass.)
The scrawny kid with the squeaky voice and Harry Potter glasses, the jazz prodigy from Sudbury whose feet didn't reach the piano pedals when he began performing and recording, the autistic grade-schooler who dazzled everybody from Dave Brubeck to David Letterman with his keyboard wizardry, is growing up. Read more.
A world of art opens for Mater Dei's Luke Faint (Australia)
Art has opened up a new world for Luke Faint, a student at Mater Dei School, Cobbitty. Read more.
Autism Speaks News
Boy makes art to auction off for Autism Speaks (Lake in the Hills, Ill.)
When 9-year-old Evan McClintock has trouble speaking, he uses his drawings to communicate. Read more.
Toys"R"Us, Inc. Expands its Support of Autism Speaks Throughout North America (Wayne, N.J.)
Today, Toys"R"Us, Inc. and the Toys"R"Us Children's Fund announced they have expanded their support of Autism Speaks to include a fundraising campaign in all of the company's stores in North America ... Read more.
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