]> http://www.healthedia.com/tags/autism Blog Articles Tagged with 'autism' at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924261?rsstype=tag&tag=autism I mentioned Alex Bain and Tyler McNeil and Jonathan Brunot, who ve all run marathons, while encouraging Charlie to try the treadmill on Tuesday: Today s Ventura County Star reports on 15-year-old Joshua Otani, who s a member of the Pacifica cro... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924261?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:36:08 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924262?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Did Thanksgiving and now full speed ahead into December with all of its festivities, plus a few extras. Today is Black Friday here in the US, formerly known as the day after Thanksgiving when people line up at 5am to charge the stores to get... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924262?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:38:12 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924263?rsstype=tag&tag=autism 1049 cases of measles have been reported in England and Wales so far this year, the highest number in 13 years and exceeding the number on 2007, when there were 990 case. Today s Guardian reports that health officials are seriously concerned about ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924263?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:31:22 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/baseline-of-health/924481?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Lady ( Out damned spot! ) Macbeth would have gone even more nuts had she learned the results of a recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. According to the study, the average hand hosts 150 different species of ba... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/baseline-of-health/924481?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:48:05 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924264?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Patternicity.It s a term that refers to the tendency to find meaningful patterns in meaningless noise, as noted by Michael Shermer in the November Scientific American:Traditionally, scientists have treated patternicity as an error in cognitio... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924264?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:02:57 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924265?rsstype=tag&tag=autism 34-year-old Charlene Sawyer has a rich and dark mezzo soprano voice, today s Charlotte Observer notes. Sawyer was not diagnosed with autism until she was 17 years old. She started piano lessons and performing with school choirs at the age of ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924265?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:32:02 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924266?rsstype=tag&tag=autism 15-year-old Christophr Transue has been missing since yesterday, KOLD news reports. He was last seen around noon at Catalina High School in Tucson, AZ, and has autism and diabetes.Another teenager, 11-year-old Jack Engalade, who has autism, went miss... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924266?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:56:10 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924267?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Among the books about autism at the public library in our town are this, this, and this I ve put in requests for a few other things.To be very honest, we rarely visit our library. While there s no lack for books of every sort at our house, Char... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924267?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:17:48 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924269?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Back in May, 5-year-old Alex Barton was voted out of his kindergarten class by his classmates. His teacher, Wendy Portillo, had asked the students to vote on whether they wanted Alex to remain. Alex s mother, Melissa Barton, removed Alex from the s... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924269?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:01:17 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924270?rsstype=tag&tag=autism I have been thinking more than ever about where Charlie will live as an adult since hearing about the services offered in different states at last Friday s IACC meeting. The pressing, pressing, pressing need for staff with appropriate training, for... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924270?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:02:12 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923821?rsstype=tag&tag=autism If you weren t able to listen in to yesterday s meeting of the IACC meeting, this is a brief summary:In the morning, the committee members reviewed the draft of the Strategic Plan and wordsmithed various additions and revisions suggested by... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923821?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:01:30 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923822?rsstype=tag&tag=autism One of the main concerns that people raise in regard to giving medication to autistic children, and to children more generally, is that there s a lack of information about the long-term effects of the medication on a child. According to a new study... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923822?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:00:04 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923823?rsstype=tag&tag=autism 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. Dale Righter (R-Charleston) is a... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923823?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:07:08 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923824?rsstype=tag&tag=autism 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 list of the federal and non-fe... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923824?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:37:24 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923825?rsstype=tag&tag=autism 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 last fall. Kyle was in the the si... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923825?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:32:13 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923826?rsstype=tag&tag=autism 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 -think so, as reported ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923826?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:11:13 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923827?rsstype=tag&tag=autism 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 concerned about what the impact ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923827?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:03:55 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923828?rsstype=tag&tag=autism 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 programs, more than 12 percent of the s... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923828?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:00:17 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/clinical-cases/923901?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Twitter is a microblogging service where people answer the question What are you doing? via 140-character messages from their cellphone, laptop or desktop. You can select the messages you find useful, amusing, or both. Here is the 14th edition of M... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/clinical-cases/923901?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:11:00 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923829?rsstype=tag&tag=autism 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 ?What is child disintegrative di... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923829?rsstype=tag&tag=autism Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:21:24 -0500