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| Is Swine Flu Panic Petering Out at the CDC? |
| 2009-08-26 18:41:00 |
The CDC is starting to sound as though it is not sure that the swine flu (H1N1) pandemic will actually occur. It is now talking about the swine flu being like any other flu, serious stuff which can and does kill people each year, but no more than normal. As reported by the AP:WASHINGTON — Government health officials are urging people not to panic over estimates of 90,000 people dying from swine flu this fall."Everything we've seen in the U.S. and everything we've seen around the world suggests we won't see that kind of number if the virus doesn't change," Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a C-SPAN interview taped Wednesday.While the swine flu seems quite easy to catch, it so far hasn't been more deadly than the flu strains seen every fal...
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| Autism and ABA - Michelle Dawson's "Expertise" and Ethics |
| 2009-08-25 19:52:00 |
The figure above represents the sum total of Michelle Dawson's ABA experience and expertise. Despite her voluminous writings (mis-characterizations) of ABA she has not, to my knowledge , indicated that she has any actual experience or expertise with ABA. Given her lack of actual involvement with ABA has her years long crusade against ABA intervention for autistic children been done in good faith? Is it ethical for her to appear in legal, political and media forums in an effort to keep OTHER PEOPLE's autistic children from receiving the benefit of ABA?Ms Dawson brought a human rights complaint against Canada Post where she was employed as a letter carrier. Her complaint was based on Canada Post's failure to accommodate her disability as a person with an autism disorder. Some of her...
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| EIBI as Intervention of Choice for Young Children with Autism |
| 2009-08-24 07:57:00 |
".... the results of our meta-analysis supports the implication that early intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) should be the intervention of choice for young children with autism."Sigmund Eldevik, Richard Hastings, and Carl Hughes, Bangor College, UKErik Jahr, Akershus University Hospital, Norway Svein Eikeseth, Akershus University College, Norway Scott Cross, Lovaas Institute for Early Intervention, USAThe recent meta-analysis by Eldevik and others must be very disheartening to anti-ABA crusaders in their efforts to disparage ABA intervention for children with autism. Parents seeking to actually help their autistic children though can take heart that yet another study supports their struggle to obtain ABA intervention for their children. Hopefully public decision make...
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| Swine Flu: Pandemic or Panic? Will We See An Autism Baby Boom? |
| 2009-08-22 02:18:00 |
Influenza kills people every year. To date the numbers of deaths from the Swine Flu, H1N1, virus have not been reported as being exceptionally outside the norm. The fear, as I understood official reports, was that a second wave of Swine Flu was coming, one in which the virus will have mutated and become far more deadly. So far at least, according to a new realease from the CDC that hasn't happened, the Swine Flu virus has not mutated as it makes its way through the southern hemisphere. As reported in USA Today:"The H1N1 flu strain doesn't appear to be mutating as it makes its way through the Southern Hemisphere, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today in a briefing. One of the biggest fears has been that the virus, which first appeared in April in the U.S. and...
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| Invisible Autistics and Severe Autism Awareness at Interaction in Mind |
| 2009-08-21 00:42:00 |
Severe autism awareness is the focus of a new photography oriented autism site called Interaction in Mind.I have written often about the lack of attention paid to those on the severe end of the autism spectrum, the invisible autistic persons whose autism challenges do not permit them to create orchestrated videos about stimming as a language or to appear before courts and political forums seeking to prevent autistic children from receiving ABA treatment. Unbeknown to the mainstream media (with the exception of the Vancouver Sun as shown in its excellent series Faces of Autism) there are severely autistic children and adults who can not communicate with or without any assisted technology device. There really are autistic adults living in institutional residential care for the rest of th...
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| Vaccine-Autism War Will Never End Unless Comparative Autism Research Is Done |
| 2009-08-20 01:49:00 |
The performance by Dr. Thomas Insel before US Senator Harkin's Senate committee recently did nothing to end the vaccine-autism war. The head of the IACC took absolute, black and white positions on the key issues which mark the vaccine-autism war. His performance has been critiqued by Katie Wright at Age of Autism. What I found most startling was Dr. Insel's assertion that a comparative study of vaccinated and unvaccinated populations could not be done for ethical reasons. That is obviously true with respect to experimental studies but observational studies of existing unvaccinated and vaccinated populations could be done and autism rates compared. Dr. Bernadine Healy, Dr. Julie Gerberding and Dr. Duane Alexander have all said that such studies could be done. It is time to fund the com...
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| Autism Prevalence - Why Wasn't the Research Done? |
| 2009-08-18 06:02:00 |
My son Conor was born in 1996 and received an autism diagnosis in 1998. Since 1996 the estimated prevalence of autism has increased dramatically from 1 in 500 to 1 in 150. A recent study suggests the figure may now be 1 in 100. The UK estimate is currently 1 in 100 with a recent study suggesting a figure of 1 in 58. In the 13 years from 1996 to 2009 though despite this incredible increase in numbers of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders there are many who deny the increase is real.From 1996 to 2009 those who deny the existence of a real increase in autism have used the same speculation to deny the existence of a real increase in autism. They often conclude their denial of a real autism increase with the refrain that more research needs to be done. So why wasn't the research ...
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| Facing Autism in New Brunswick (and Conor) 3 Years Later |
| 2009-08-16 14:58:00 |
Conor, October 2007Conor, August 2009 (2 days ago)In a few days it will be three full years since I began this autism blog. Things have changed in 3 years and things have remained the same. I have changed ... some. And Conor has changed ... a lot. The autism world for the most part has not changed at all with the same arguments being recycled over and over. The good news ... or bad ... if you are a faithful member of the Autism Hub ... is that I enjoy blogging and plan to continue. I have written previously of my motivation for starting this blog and will not do so again other than to say that I wanted to express my views about autism a subject of utmost importance to me because my buddy, my son Conor, has Autism Disorder. Today and each day I pledge to continue to fight for a better...
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| Conor and Dad Bridge Walk - Fun at the River |
| 2009-08-14 10:40:00 |
A bridge walk is a good work out for Dad as I struggle to keep up with Conor. Fortunately for Dad, Conor takes time out for fun at the River, climbing and strolling along a small wall and, of course, throwing rocks in the River - the Saint John River.autism ...
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