Have you heard the latest news from the CDC? "One in 68 U.S. children has an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a 30% increase from 1 in 88 two years ago, according to a new report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." According to CNN's report of the CDC's latest findings: "This [...]
Tag: autism spectrum disorders
Change the way you look at things…
I love Temple Grandin. She is a great advocate for acceptance and nurturing of difference in all human beings, not just those on the spectrum. As such, when I saw a link on The Autism Site of a snippet of her interview with George Stroumboulopoulos I was compelled to click on it. Because I love [...]
AuSome Indeed! ;-)
I have written about my views on autism many times in my blog. It has been a topic that has been near and dear to my heart since I discovered close to six years ago that my grandson Noah Jr. was on the autism spectrum. It also became apparent a couple years back that my [...]
Phillip McCollum rocks!
There are times when I am so proud of our students at NDSU. Last evening was one of those times. It started when I happened upon a Facebook post on a student-run unofficial NDSU Facebook page called Overheard at NDSU. Overheard is primarily used as a capture point for odd, funny, or annoying things that [...]
Wired differently…
If you meet one person with autism, you’ve met one person with autism.
There is a saying often uttered in the autism community, "If you meet one person with autism, you've met one person with autism." Autism is not a definitional box filled with discrete behavioral, neurological, or physical descriptors - it is a spectrum filled with ranges of color and shading, nuances upon nuances, and palettes that [...]
Touched.
I have never been a big Kiefer Sutherland fan. Not that he isn't good to look at and all, but on the whole I have not been drawn to his movies or television shows. So when I saw the advertisements for his new show - Touch - I initially dismissed it as another new show [...]
THE NEW FORTY 