Facing Autism in New Brunswick: They Just Don’t Give A Damn: 2007 Adult...
Following this comment is a re-posting of a comment I posted on this site 7 years ago in 2007 about the abysmal state of autism youth and adult residential care and treatment in New Brunswick, Canada....
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Waterhouse & Gillberg: Why Autism Must be...
The belief that there is a single defining autism spectrum disorder brain dysfunction must be relinquished. – Waterhouse and Gillberg, Why Autism Must Be Taken Apart I am not going to offer too much...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: We Must Face Reality: Autism Disorders Can Be...
After discovering an arm, torso and legs Thursday, police continue the search for human remains along a rocky shoreline in Queens, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. The remains belong to 14-year-old Avonte...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: A Humble Father’s Simple Autism, Intellectual...
I have been trying to read, and understand, literature about autism disorders since my son was diagnosed with an autism disorder almost 16 years ago. (Many would undoubtedly suggest I have far to go...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: 16 Years After Conor’s Autism Diagnosis: Lots...
Yesterday was Conor’s 18th birthday. Today is exactly 16 years after his autism diagnosis, received the day after his second birthday and after several months of testing and observation. Conor, now a...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Parent Observation Based Study: Children With...
Some study results that don’t surprise me given the use of parent observation, the most, and perhaps only, reliable source of information concerning autism symptoms during children’s infancy:...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Stanford Study Provides False Hope For Many...
A Stanford study which excluded autistic subjects with intellectual disability is being used to spread the false notion that autism is not a disability … just a difference. This misrepresentation of...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Reality Check: Autism Is Not A Person...
Autism is not a person. Autism is defined by some authorities as a disorder, by others as “autisms” or a varied group of complex heterogeneous disorders and by still other authorities as a group of...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Research Into Early Autism Interventions – La...
Another excellent, thorough discussion from LaTrobe University’s Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre (OTARC) focusing this time on early intervention research. “Published on 16 Mar 2014 Dr...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Early Autism Identification Breakthrough?...
Above: Conor last month leaving school with his Mom on his 18th birthday Below: Conor 16 years ago on his 2nd birthday. The next day he received his autism diagnosis. Our son Conor recently turned...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: IDEA Disorder, Intellectual...
Conor a year ago at the local ICU where he stayed for 6 days while the ICU professionals worked to save his life and return him to us in good health after a serious adverse reaction to his seizure...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Canada’s Autism Disgrace 2007: 2014 Update
Photo from Ameriquebec.net In December 2007 I wrote Canada’s Autism Disgrace, describing the lack of a real National Autism Strategy in Canada. It is now 2014 and nothing has changed. Canada still...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: DSM or ICD, Either Way Autism is a DISORDER,...
There are a number of very high functioning persons claiming to be autistic or claiming to have a “syndrome” or “different way of thinking”. Autism is a difference not a disorder they cry out in...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Conor One Year Later!
Above: Conor this morning before Mom drove him to school at the Leo Hayes High School Resource Centre. Mom and Dad are very happy to have our Conor with us healthy and happy. Below: One year ago...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Canadian Autism Dad Says Thank You Florida...
In Canada we could use more federal politicians speaking honestly and accurately, as Florida Rep Bill Posey has done in the US, about Canada’s autism crisis including the realities facing those...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Disorders and Transition To and...
Conor visiting and preparing for his transition from middle school to high school by visiting the grounds of the school and seeing the Leo Hayes High School building. I have commented on transition...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Canada, With Some Help From the Globe...
Autism Canada suggests parents of autistic children should change course and head down a different trail, away from strong evidence based interventions like Applied Behaviour Analysis, toward programs...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: UPDATE: Globe and Mail Health Columnist André...
André Picard is a Globe and Mail public health reporter with the Glboe and Mail which is promoting the Son-Rise Program®, a purported autism program with almost no evidence based support of its...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: New Jersey Dad: "Reality Of Autism Is Often...
I chose the name of my email account “AutismRealityNB@gmail.com” because, from my perspective, the harsh realities of autism disorders are usually ignored or worse, intentionally misrepresented, by...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: The Seinfeld-Descartes Autism Diagnostic...
The Seinfeld-Descartes Autism Diagnostic Tool: I Think I Am Autistic Therefore I Am Autistic Many, especially many with very, very high functioning autism diagnoses have embraced Jerry Seinfeld’s new...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Joy of Conor 2014
I will not pretend, I will never pretend, that autism is just a different way of thinking. Heather and I love our son too much to lie to the world about the nature of his autism realities, his severe...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Jabberwocky, Excellent Autism Blogger,...
There are lots of autism blogs on the internet. One of the best autism blogs, possibly the very best, has been the Autism Jabberwocky blog which features the thoughtful, reality based, well...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Our Happy Conor is Back! And Dad Is Happy Too!
The top photo above was taken a year and a half ago, shortly after Conor recoved from a very serious adverse reaction to his seizure med at the time, Lamtrogine, which resulted in two weeks in the...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Disorders and the 1st International...
Monday, February 9, 2015 is the first International Epilepsy Day, a joint initiative created by the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE) and the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE)...
View ArticleFacing Autism in New Brunswick: New Brunswick’s Band Aid Adult Autism...
New Brunswick has an approach to adult autism disorder care and treatment that can most charitably be described as a Band Aid approach. There are many reasons for this Band Aid solution apart from...
View Article
