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2 Harmful Acts: Autism Hate Letter And CHEO Removing Autistic Child With GDD From Early Intervention Program 27 Aug 2013 | 01:53 pm
The notorious autism hate letter that targeted an Ontario family and their autistic child has sparked horror and outrage around the world. As the father of a 17 year old son with severe autistic diso...
Hemispherectomy: Cut My Son's Brain In Half? No Way .... Unless 24 Aug 2013 | 09:55 pm
I am not a neurologist, neurosurgeon or medical doctor of any kind. I am not a psychologist or a certified behavior analyst. I am a lawyer and a father of two sons one of whom has a severe autism di...
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Writes Off Child With Autism AND Global Developmental Delay (Intellectual Disability) 23 Aug 2013 | 02:35 pm
CHEO: No Teddy Bears & No Autism Program for Severely Challenged Children The Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario has been added as a respondent in a human rights proceeding, and accused of dis.....
SFARI Highlights Serious Risk of Epilepsy for Teens with Autism and Intellectual Disability 20 Aug 2013 | 09:51 pm
"Children with autism who are older than 13 years and have low intelligence are at the greatest risk of having epilepsy, says one of the largest epidemiological studies on the issue to date1. Children...
You Can Help the Chalmers Hospital ICU Save Lives! 17 Aug 2013 | 04:28 pm
The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Fredericton's Chalmers hospital saves lives even with vitally important monitoring equipment that is more than 10 years old. We found out first hand how important the...
Autism Breakthrough? Autism Speaks Recognizes Autism Heterogeneity! 14 Aug 2013 | 08:16 am
Rethinking Autism Variation and Complexity by Lynn Waterhouse is a recent work which provides a thorough, expert and extremely well researched picture of the variation and complexity of autism spectr...
OTARC Panel: Dr. Giacomo Vivanti: Does Severe Autism Cause Intellectual Disability? 10 Aug 2013 | 01:47 pm
Excellent panel discussion by the La Trobe University Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre (OTARC) with Dr. Giacomo Vivanti, Dr. Cheryl Dissanjake and Dr. Cynthia Zierhut. The panel comments on the c...
Severe Autism: Autism in the Shadows - Thank You Amy Mackin 29 Jul 2013 | 12:52 pm
"My son’s story is one of hope, not unlike the stories regularly broadcast on television, printed in magazines or making the rounds on YouTube. Yet the autism spectrum is wide and diverse, and many w...
Conor Countdown Continues In Support of FLEXIBLE, EVIDENCE BASED Inclusion 27 Jul 2013 | 12:40 pm
The Conor Countdown continues, as Conor gets up each day at 6 am and changes the number reflecting the number of days until school resumes. My son Conor, and his autism disorder disability, have bee...
Run Jump Fly Boy Is Back - Thank You Again DECH ICU! 26 Jul 2013 | 02:10 am
A few months ago, Conor was lying unconscious in a bed at the Intensive Care Unit of the Chalmers' Hospital (the DECH) with tubes running out of his body and hooked up to 10+ year old monitoring equi...
