I was sitting in a meeting the other day and talking with an individual that was extremely of being involved in the closing down of the “institutions” in Ontario that left so many low functioning autistics without a place to stay when their own families could no longer take care of them. What distressed me the most about the conversation … [Read more...]
How Do We Protect Our Children
I have found in looking around that there is the belief that we must fight for everything our children need to survive. I have also found that it is essentially true, but, there is a catch. In the large majority of cases a hard core confrontational approach does not work. It requires a friendly approach, but a constantly present, … [Read more...]
Canadian Blog awards
We are into the second round of voting for the Canadian Blog Awards we can be found under family blogs voting is once per day thanks for continuing to read our blog … [Read more...]
Ari Ne’eman’s Autism Agenda Ignores Majority
When Ari Ne’eman was interviewed in Wired he said Autistic individuals don’t need people worrying about causes and cures. This is extremely disturbing when you realize that the number of people with autism is now at 1 in 110 babies born and growing. And unlike Mr. Ne’eman many of those (the large majority actually) will never be able to … [Read more...]
Back to School: A New Year, New Teacher, And New Results
When I initially realized who my son’s teacher would be this year I was a bit concerned. I had seen her around the school and I felt that she just might be a bit hard. I actually thought that perhaps she was not the best option for an autistic child. Boy was I wrong. When I first met her during our year end interview, last year. She noticed a … [Read more...]
CTV British Columbia – Deportee’s autistic son pleads for gov’t intervention – CTV News
CTV British Columbia - Deportee's autistic son pleads for gov't intervention - CTV News … [Read more...]
We Have Been Nominated for Canadian Blog Awards 2010
we have been nominated under best overall blog 2010 and best family blog 2010 (Living with Autism: A Parent’s Perspective) voting starts today top 5 in each category move on to round 2 http://cdnba.wordpress.com/ … [Read more...]
Autism’s First child
first diagnosed as autistic in 1943 he is the initial confirmed diagnosis in North America … [Read more...]
PANB Autism Platform
Autism Autism is a debilitating mental disease with a few disturbing trends. 1/ it’s cause is found to be 2% genetic. 2/ the remaining 98% is unknown but believed to be environmental 3/ there is no known cure but there is treatment that can make the disease manageable in most 4/ those with autism can live a full normal lifespan 5/ one in 100 … [Read more...]
A Very Good Day
Normally when our son is as quiet and as well behaved as we found him to be yesterday our first reaction is to haul out a thermometer “ he must be sick” This does not really mean that we consider him poorly behaved but he is extremely active and high strung. He runs around everywhere usually giggling and screaming interspersed with … [Read more...]