]> http://www.healthedia.com/tags/autistic Blog Articles Tagged with 'autistic' at http://www.healthedia.com en http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924264?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic 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=autistic Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:02:57 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924265?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic 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=autistic Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:32:02 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/924267?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic 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=autistic Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:17:48 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923821?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic 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=autistic Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:01:30 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923822?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic 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=autistic Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:00:04 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923824?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic 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=autistic Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:37:24 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923826?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic 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=autistic Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:11:13 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923827?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic 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=autistic Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:03:55 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923828?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic 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=autistic Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:00:17 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923829?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic 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=autistic Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:21:24 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923612?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic The November 13th Newsweek has an article, More Than Just Quirky, about girls and women with Asperger s Syndrome: Are girls and women sometimes not diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum because they do not have the same symptoms as boys and men... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923612?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:22:45 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923588?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic 4 hours 49 minutes 20 seconds.That was Jonathan Brunot s time in this year s New York City Marathon. Today s New York Times details how his race went:Jonathan aced [the NY Marathon] Nov. 2 on his first attempt in 4 hours 49 minutes 20 seconds, ... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923588?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic Sun, 16 Nov 2008 20:30:17 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923583?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic Young, gifted, and autistic : That s how the November 16th Independent profile describes New Zealand-born singer-songwriter Pip Brown of Ladyhawke:recently, she revealed to a British newspaper that she has Asperger s syndrome (a form of auti... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923583?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:36:42 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923576?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic Saying a lot happened in the past two weeks kind of seems like an understatement.The Search for Certainty (or, why we re going to the dentist at 3.15pm) An emergency dentist visit for Charlie prompts me to think about why parents so often try... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923576?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:07:48 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923549?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic According to the November 15th Slate, Barack Obama needs to choose a cabinet of really smart genius types that is, with those who are brilliant albeit prickly, semi-autistic, and egomaniacal thinkers :The issue starts at the Treasury Depar... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923549?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:08:22 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923520?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic 9-year-old Zachary Vitto who s autistic and wears leg braces for cerebral palsy hikes with his fellow scouts on a rocky path from Borrego to Red Rock Canyon and more than perseveres, as told in the OC Register.Never ever give up, right?Tags: as... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923520?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:00:27 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923441?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic Two recent stories in the New York Daily News highlight the struggles of families to provide for their autistic children.In Staten Island, a police detective got caught up in the subprime mortgage crisis when she bought a fixer-upper with the intenti... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923441?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:00:18 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/923324?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic A new theory has emerged about the genetic basis of mental disorders, and it has to do with our parental genes fighting for dominance. The theory outlines that genes from the father s sperm are in an evolutionary tug-of-war with genes from the mot... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/923324?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:16:49 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/923558?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic A new theory has emerged about the genetic basis of mental disorders, and it has to do with our parental genes fighting for dominance. The theory outlines that genes from the father s sperm are in an evolutionary tug-of-war with genes from the mot... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/genetics-health/923558?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:16:49 -0500 http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923103?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic Yes, I overparent.It often seems to me that it s harder than not to do this when you ve a child with a disability. In yesterday s Arizona Daily Star Johanna Eubanks writes about the ongoing difficulties that she, and other mothers of autistic c... http://www.healthedia.com/sectors/directory/autism-vox/923103?rsstype=tag&tag=autistic Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:36:55 -0500