Tragic Autism Police Encounter Demands Attention
A tragic situation we previously reported on involving a police encounter with a teen on the autism spectrum deserves immediate attention. On the morning of May 24, 2010, 19 year-old Reginald “Neli” Latson sat in the grass outside the…
Improvisation for Autism
One thing I've learned over the last fifteen years of raising my twins with autism is the power of being oblique.
After one son bombed out of a series of social skills classes, I felt like I may as well make a little pile of money and…
Entrepreneur Creates Opportunites for those with Autism
Entrepreneur Thorkil Sonne has discovered that individuals with autism make exceptional employees in the IT sector. As a father whose son was found to be on the autism spectrum, Sonne was initially in despair over the diagnosis until he…
Neuroscientist Links Autism with Internet Use
Neuroscientist Baroness Greenfield of Oxford University has created a firestorm of controversy by correlating autism with increased computer use amongst children. She contends that the use of social networking Web sites is altering…
Drum Therapy for Autism
When I recently took my fifteen-year-old son with Asperger's to his weekly therapy session, I was thrilled when he was offered the chance to participate in drum therapy. Instantly, I recalled the days when he was a toddler throwing a…
Food Safety and Autism
In my opinion, the search for "the cause" of autism is a misnomer, because in our modern world there is no single cause, but a complex of environmental factors that trigger a genetic predisposition. While our technological advances have…
Update on Child with Autism Removed From Home
An Autism Key reader named Laurie wrote in to update us on a heartbreaking
story involving Ayn Van Dyk, a nine-year-old Canadian girl seized by authorities after being safely recovered from an autism wandering
episode.
Derek…
Autism Mother Objects to Beauty Pageant Award
Melbourne, Australia brings us a bizarre story about a mother of a little girl with autism who entered her daughter in a child beauty contest with neurotypical fellow contestants and is now protesting its outcome.
Leonie Myles was shocked…
Autism Insurance Breakthroughs Called Into Question
Recent reports from Disability Scoop confirm the old adage, "If something seems too good to be true, it probably is." In early July, California officials announced deals with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California under…
Military Families Confront Autism
Every family affected by autism experiences stress, but try to imagine the burdens of a military family coping with the disorder. Not only is the father or mother at risk in a foreign land, but military families have to move frequently as…