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» 200811 hours ago
In Illinois, Gov. Rod Blagojevich is expected to sign a bill requiring insurance companies to cover autism diagnosis and treatment up to $36,000 a year until a patient turns 21, today’s Chicago Tribune reports. Sen …
Tagged: education, disability, insurance, money, chicago, diagnosis, autism, oklahoma, legislation, illinois, asd, asperger, autism blog, disabilities blog, nick s law
17 hours ago
I’m on the train to Washington D.C., to attend a meeting of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, which coordinates efforts concerning autism within the US Department of Health and Human Research. There’s a …
Tagged: education, disability, washington dc, diagnosis, autism, legislation, classics, latin, middle school, train, health and human services, adolescence, mean girls, asd, asperger, iacc, autism blog, disabilities blog, fire drill, homeroom
22 hours ago
Kev writes about 12-year-old Kyle Dutter, who was shot and killed by his father, Ryan Dutter, who then shot and killed himself, on Tuesday. Ryan Dutter had created a website about his son; he had filed for bankruptcy …
Tagged: health, disability, shooting, crime, autism, wisconsin, parenthood, asperger, autism blog, disabilities blog, education blog, kyle dutter
Nov 20, 2008
Just as there is the Amber Alert for abducted children, should there be an “Autism Alert” when an autistic child is missing? The parents of Kaitlyn Bacile—-who, in September, was found drowned in a canal near her home …
Tagged: disability, water, autism, safety, kidnapping, asd, drowning, water safety, amber alert, asperger, missing child, autism blog, disabilities blog, kaitlyn bacile
Nov 20, 2008
Jonathan Reyes is 7 and lives in Sylmar in Southern California—-his family lost their house in the recent wildfires in Los Angeles County. Joshua is autistic and his family has been, amid everything else, especially …
Tagged: disability, australia, family, autism, toys, fire, mattel, southern california, hotwheels, asd, wildfire, asperger, autism blog, disabilities blog
Nov 20, 2008
Back in July, it was reported that the rate of autism in Somali children in Minnapolis was notably high. According to the Minnesota Department of Education: in the Minneapolis’ early childhood and kindergarten …
Tagged: africa, health, history, culture, psychiatry, sweden, minneapolis, diagnosis, autism, statistics, parenting, minnesota, somalia, cause, vitamin d, epidemiology, asd, vaccines, pdd nos, special education, asperger, david kirby, race and 38 ethnicity
Nov 20, 2008
So what is autism? Chances are, if you’re reading this, you know, and are quite prepared to explain at the drop of the hat “what autism is.” But what if you’re asked: Why is there this separate term, “PDD-NOS”? …
Tagged: education, disability, australia, psychiatry, china, diagnosis, autism, lunch, sociology, asd, developmental disabilities, dsm, asperger, dsm iv, dsm v, autism blog, disabilities blog
Nov 19, 2008
Charlie runs into the grocery store and grabs a shopping basket and hums happily on his way to the sushi section. “Sounds like an owl,” I hear a young man say to a woman who, by her apron, is also an employee. I pause …
Tagged: disability, shopping, autism, groceries, sushi, humming, asd, owl, charlisms, asperger, autism blog, disabilities blog
Nov 19, 2008
A Lynchburg, Virginia, father is upset that his 16-year-old autistic son was taken away from him and placed in a mental institution far from home for a day. Gordon Bowyer told WSET news that “‘they took him from me …
Tagged: disability, family, autism, virginia, asd, blankets, lynchburg, residential placement, asperger, mental hospital, autism blog, disabilities blog
Nov 19, 2008
Florida teacher Wendy Portillo—who allowed her kindergarten class to vote on whether or not their classmate Alex Barton could remain in class—-has been suspended without pay for a year, according to the Naples News …
Tagged: health, education, disability, autism, legal issues, florida, survivor, asd, disability rights, asperger, autism blog, disabilities blog, alex barton, wendy portillo