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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Amongst children diagnosed with autism, around a third of their parents notice signs of autism before the child’s first birthday. But the condition usually goes undiagnosed for many years: the average age of diagnosis is over three.
Autistic [...]
We’ve had several posts on autism and vaccination in this blog. Many of us parents have divergent points of view on this matter.
A special on autism has been featured on Good Morning America, presented by Dr. Timothy Johnson, medical editor at ABC News. These stories are also now available online as short, easy-to-digest video clips [...]
I just received a newsletter from The National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments(NAPVI), which we belong to because of my children’s disabilities. They have worked out a package with The Come Children Sing Institute for a free session of online music classes. The length of the classes is 10 weeks.
To [...]
This one makes me go, Huh? It seems a ‘baby factor’ in Warsaw, Poland is now offering up babies for sale, born to young surrogate moms. Each baby is worth about 11,000 pounds or about $21,000. It has, needless to say, sparked a very hot debate. Read the article yourself and [...]
Is there no end to the disadvantages of being a preemie? I am a scientist and I believe in science. But the scientific findings that point towards future problems for babies born premature are just so overwhelming that they can break a mother’s heart.
First, there are the health problems - from respiratory distress to autism [...]
Many concerned parents of Autistic children are rejoicing as U.S. health officials finally advocate a treatment for Autism called chelation. The treatment’s goal is to purge metals from the patient’s body. Metals, particularly from mercury vaccines, are thought to be a big factor in the little-understood neurological disorder. The support of chelation [...]
Anywhere you go in public, it seems, there’s a wild child controlling her parents. Last week, two events have unfolded leaving many heads shaking, eyebrows raised and fingers pointed.
First, a woman was not allowed to board her connecting flight from Detroit to Seattle. As reported by local news outlets and cnn.com, Wendy Slaughter admitted that [...]
Zinc is a mineral that is involved in the functioning of over 300 enzymes and takes part in a great many biological functions. This means that inadequate intake can lead to a range of problems. It was first discovered to be an essential element in 1934. It is the mineral that is most commonly deficient, [...]
A new research study done by The University of North Caroling at Chapel Hill showed a link between autism in children and mental disorders in their parents.
The research compared children who were born between 1977 and 2003 who were diagnosed with autism before the age of 10 with the rate of parental mental disorders of [...]
Autism Spectrum Disorder has, in recent years, created heated debates between parents, doctors, health authorities, and scientists. Unfortunately, although autism is prevalent (about 1 in 150 kids are affected), there are still so many things we don`t know about it, including the real causes, and treatments. Autism has been linked to many factors, including exposure [...]
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