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Best Not to Bike Alone
http://www.autismvox.com/ best-not-to-bike-alone/Police officers in Freehold, New Jersey, rescued 6-year-old Jahmir Mayfield from biking into traffic. Jahmar has autism and ADHD and had just learned to ride a bike; today’s Asbury Park Press noted that he has a tendency to wander for home and wears a “global positioning tracking device around his
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Heard at the DQ
http://www.autismvox.com/ heard-at-the-dq/Stopped at a Dairy Queen from seeing Charie’s neurologist. Charlie stood very close to a woman who was ordering at the window and moved towards us when I called him, and certainly experienced nothing like a Canadian woman, Erica Gosselin, did while recently taking two autistic boys to a DQ.
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5 foot 3 and rising
http://www.autismvox.com/ 5-foot-3-and-rising/It’s late late Friday night (/early early Monday morning) as I’m writing this and feeling. I think we made it through another summer. Monday will be Charlie’s first day back to school, after an extra-long summer vacation: Due to school construction in our school district, summer vacation started extra early and is ending extra late.
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How To Deal With Your Mild Autism(?): Wired Wiki
http://www.autismvox.com/ how-to-deal-with-your-mild-autism-wired-wiki/Courtesy of Wired magazine, a wiki about how to deal with your mild autism. Tips include: 1 Interrupt party chatter 2 Time yourself 3 Be honest at work 4 Look ‘em in the eye 5 Make it work for you 6 Know thyself 7 Reminders, Reminders, Reminders 8 Reduce Distractions 9 Find an Editor From item
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What do you do…….
http://www.autismvox.com/ what-do-you-do/What do you do when your income is less than the cost of therapy for your autistic child? That’s the situation facing Dan and Sharon Springer, the parents of 8-year-old Joy Springer, in Nevada. According to KRNV today, Joy’s family also faces the loss of $1000 from Acumen, a state-funded program, due to a state budget crisis.
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“I get a lot of hate mail”: Autism’s False Prophets by Paul Offit
http://www.autismvox.com/ i-get-a-lot-of-hate-mail-autisms-false-prophets-by-pau…It’s not unfitting that a week in which a new study further disputing the MMR vaccine-autism link appeared would end with the publication of a book with no less a title than Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for a Cure, and by no less an author than Dr.
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Ha Ha Very Funny
http://www.autismvox.com/ ha-ha-very-funny/Laughter is the best and possibly the oldest medicine, as recently noted on BrainBlogger: Laughter is a naturally occurring response to humorous stimuli and is a rather easily implemented and cost-effective clinical tool. Some lay publications even report that laughter is equivalent to aerobic exercise.
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Disabled Woman Dies at Camp After Given Wrong Medication
http://www.autismvox.com/ disabled-woman-dies-at-camp-after-given-wrong-medicati…The Wisconsin camp, Trade Lake, from which Keith T. Kennedy went missing from in June, now faces closure after 49-year-old Shirley Meade died there after being given the wrong drug, Clozapine. Yesterday’s TwinCities.com describes Meade as “severely mentally challenged” and a ward of the state of Minnesota, as her parents are deceased.
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Study Says No MMR-Autism Link; NAA Says “Flawed”
http://www.autismvox.com/ study-says-no-mmr-autism-link-naa-says-flawed/Lots of media coverage on the newly published study disputing an autism-MMR link. A September 3rd ABC News article opens with the story of Arthur Anderson, who’s now nine years old. He was five when he started to show “signs of autism” after receiving the MMR vaccine; he also had “chronic stomach problems” a couple of weeks earlier.
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Chaos Is Come Again, And Goes
http://www.autismvox.com/ chaos-is-come-again-and-goes/So on Wednesday morning it was chaos in our house. Only for about 15 minutes, but any minutes of Not Fun is Not a Great Way to Start the Day. Charlie had woken early and got up and smiled and wanted a shirt; he was pulling it on backwards (it’s an Oakland A’s t-shirt with numbers on both sides) and I gestured wordlessly to turn it around and his eyes clouded and he made a low noise.
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