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How to go on vacation with your Autistic child

Feb 23, 10 How to go on vacation with your Autistic child

Posted by Mary Ann Holmes in How to

Traveling with your children can be stressful but imagine how difficult it might be if your child has autism. A trip to the grocery store can be almost out of the question never mind, dare I say, a vacation? Going on a vacation is not something I ever really considered until now. When my son was younger a trip to the corner store...

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Websites for Autistic Children

Feb 22, 10 Websites for Autistic Children

Posted by Mary Ann Holmes in Products

Avens Corner Facial Expressions PBS Kids Poisson Rouge Sensory World Star Fall The Literacy Center Education Network The wiggles Treehouse www.zacbrowser.com/ www.tweensbrowser.com/ Popularity: 5%...

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Wakefield quits US clinic

Feb 21, 10 Wakefield quits US clinic

Posted by Mary Ann Holmes in News

The Lancet released a statement this month retracting the 1998 paper by Wakefield, the doctor who claimed the vaccinations where the cause of Autism. Following the judgment of the UK General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practise Panel on Jan 28, 2010, it has become clear that several elements of the 1998 paper by Wakefield et...

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Singing ‘rewires’ damaged brain

Feb 21, 10 Singing ‘rewires’ damaged brain

Posted by Mary Ann Holmes in News

By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC News, San Diego Singing words made it easier for stroke patients to communicate Teaching stroke patients to sing “rewires” their brains, helping them recover their speech, say scientists. By singing, patients use a different area of the brain from the area involved in speech. If a...

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Life Among the ‘Yakkity Yaks’

Feb 21, 10 Life Among the ‘Yakkity Yaks’

Posted by Mary Ann Holmes in People

The following is a really wonderful article from The Wall Street Journal of an interview with world renown inventor and animal scientist Temple Grandin. Her fantastic insight into the mind of the autistic is something I will never tire of. Enjoy the following. By BARI WEISS ‘Who do you think made the first stone spear?”...

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Another Study Refutes Vaccination-Autism Link

Feb 12, 10 Another Study Refutes Vaccination-Autism Link

Posted by Mary Ann Holmes in News

Whether measles shot was alone or in combination didn’t matter, researchers say FRIDAY, Feb. 12 (Health Day News) — One more study finds that the measles vaccine — given alone or as part of the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine — does not increase the risk of autism in children. The new findings come...

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The allure of snake oil for parents of autistic children

Feb 12, 10 The allure of snake oil for parents of autistic children

Posted by Mary Ann Holmes in News

Thought I would share this great article written by Stuart Laidlaw and Megan Ogilvie in the Star this week. Read on. Stuart Laidlaw Megan Ogilvie staff Reporters Jeanette Holden remembers her parents struggling to comprehend why her younger brother had autism. Family vacations could be a desperate search for someone, anyone, who...

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