Sobering new study by Easter Seals describes the state of disabled adults in the U.S.

| November 7, 2010

Easter Seals focuses on many disabilities and especially Autism Spectrum Disorders. Their Living With Disability Study paints a startling picture of the life-long challenges surrounding everyday life and future concerns for parents of adult children with disabilities and adults with disabilities. Many parents worry their adult children’s basic needs for employment, housing, transportation, social interactions, [...]

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Talk at North Bay Regional Center in Santa Rosa

| November 2, 2010

Janet and I are really happy about the presentations we did this Tuesday and Wednesday for the North Bay Regional Center about Building Social Skills and Networking for People with ASD. Here’s a link to the slides we used. Best Practices slide deck If you attended, please comment on any resources you’d like us to [...]

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Symposium: Making healthy babies, raising healthy children

| November 10, 2009

Where: UC Berkeley Art Museum Theatre, 2625 Durant Ave. Berkeley, California When: Saturday, November 21, 2009, from 9 am to 4 pm Sponsors: SageFemme, Ryder Foundation, Midwifery Today, Autism Recovery Consortium Tickets: $60 until 11/20 then $75 and may be purchased through Everbrite: http://makinghealthybabies.eventbrite.com The 2009 CIA World Factbook ranks the USA 45th among nations [...]

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David Kirby: seven studies to watch

| June 15, 2009

David kirby in Huffington Post comments on Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Rep. Christopher Smith’s (R-NJ) calls on HHS to fund comparative studies on vaccinated vs. un-vaccinated children but i think the most interesting part of the article is tacked on at the end: Seven studies to watch APPROVED STUDIES: 1) The National CADDRE Study [...]

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David Kirby writes about NIH EARLI effort to study potential environmental causes of ASD

| June 11, 2009

In the Huffington Post today David Kirby writes US Government officials are finally getting serious about studying all potential environmental factors in autism, and I for one applaud them heartily for leaving no etiological stone unturned. Kirby is writing about the Early Autism Risk Longitudinal Investigation or EARLI study. See their website. See NIH Autism [...]

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Is ASD due to a “super male” brain?

| June 9, 2009

In the June 22 issue of Forbes is an article by Elisabeth Eaves about Simon Baron-Cohen (academic brother of comedian Sasha Baron-Cohen) which discusses his research and his idea that the Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) brain is an extreme version of the male brain. Baron-Cohen and his researchers feel the currrent incidence of ASD is [...]

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Researchers Discover Mothers of ASD Teens Stressed Out – doh!

| June 6, 2009

This is one of those articles that makes me wonder what the heck researchers think they’re going to find when they start their projects? Kind of like doing a study to discover the sky is blue, or that water is wet! Breaking News: Mothers of ASD Teens are Stressed Out

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Studies continuing on Vaccine-Autism link

| June 5, 2009

I don’t know whether vaccines are related to any increase in cases of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) seen in recent years. I agree there are very probably genetic factors but I feel there must also be some sort of environmental trigger at play as well. Is there really an increase in ASD? There is definitely [...]

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