Tag: disabilities
group name: autismfamilies
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September 30, 2007 06:06 AM EDT --
Dear Aspies and Spectrum families,
I just read the most wonderful article in the New Yorker. It was a music critic's account of growing up with, and eventually being diagnosed with, . . .
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January 05, 2007 11:20 PM EST --
I am a single mom of a son with PDD-NOS-for those that don't know what that is, it is Pervasive Developmental Disorder. Or High functioning Autisim! Some things to help know if it time to get your . . .
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December 17, 2006 11:10 PM EST --
i'm wondering if the dsm actually says that asperger people lack empathy. this is not the first time i've heard the comment.
i have also heard this term apply to sociopaths. and i . . .
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September 18, 2006 01:49 PM EDT --
MARCUS FIESEL and FOSTER CAREThe story of Marcus Fiesel was pitched to Fox News, CNN and all the networks and got little or no play. No national coverage, thanks to John Mark Karr
It's the truly . . .
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December 17, 2006 10:12 PM EST --
French scientists have identified genetic mutations in a small number of children with autism which could provide insight into the biological basis of the disorder.
They sequenced a gene called SHANK3 . . .
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November 10, 2006 08:16 AM EST --
I am sitting here, watching my 10 month old bouncing up and down to music and it hit me: I am the luckiest mommy in the world. I have three beautiful boys, and I'd like to introduce them to you.
Gabriel . . .
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February 21, 2007 03:19 PM EST --
Throughout this school year we have been meeting every 2-6 weeks to discuss how my daughter is doing in school and to fine-tune her behavior plan. I have been very happy with her team this year, . . .
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August 17, 2006 12:27 AM EDT --
To all parents of children with disabilities that have IEPs :
IEP = individual educational plans - yearly basis to set goals and determine supports for those that qualify for an IEP. This . . .
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November 23, 2006 11:35 PM EST --
When my 7-yr-old daughter Elise was diagnosed last year with ADHD and Asperger's, I started reading all I could about autism and its "spectrum" of disorders. The first thing I learned . . .
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January 28, 2007 08:05 PM EST --
Years before I was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder, I was in a battlefield whenever I was in a social situation that turned into an argument. From my point of . . .
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August 18, 2006 12:14 AM EDT --
I have two kids on the Autism Spectrum, ages 10 and 11, both boys. I first heard of this term in a progress report from a speech therapist when Nicholas was about 4 years of age. It noted that . . .
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September 25, 2006 12:21 PM EDT --
I had to go to a baptism yesterday. I use the word 'had' because the child being baptized is my god-daughter. So, you see why I 'had' to go. Not that I didn't want to. Of course I did . . .
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April 15, 2007 01:03 PM EDT --
Sisters and authors Patty and Gina, join the Manic Mommies to talk about their book "Shut Up About Your Perfect Kid! The Movement of 'Imperfection.'"
As mothers of children with . . .
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February 18, 2007 11:10 AM EST --
This is an interesting story of twin brothers both on the spectrum who are teenagers and their fourteen year old sister and an 11 year old sister.
Good information about siblings and how they handle . . .
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November 21, 2006 06:48 PM EST --
The President of the Autism Society of America has sent an email out notifying the autism community that the Founder of the ASA and Autism Research Institute in San Diego, Dr. Bernard Rimland has passed . . .
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October 23, 2006 03:31 AM EDT --
Strange things happen when you apply the statistical methods of economics to medical science. You might say you get dismal science, but that's a bit glib. You certainly get some strange claims — . . .
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September 22, 2006 12:07 AM EDT --
This week's issue - Septembeer 25, 2006 of Time magazine has an article on Who pays for special education. The family profiled is one that has a child on the Autism Spectrum.
Save . . .
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December 20, 2006 02:29 AM EST --
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/161901.asp
The subject of autism ranked eighth in the top-ten hottest news topics
on Google in 2006, the superstar online search engine . . .
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August 26, 2006 08:00 PM EDT --
I see a trend that has been occuring in my son's autism class in a public Elementary school. My son and one other classmate are nonverbal with the other children being verbal to various degrees. . . .
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