If one surfs about looking for sites providing comments about pediatricians and about ADHD, Autism, and other childhood disorders, it’s easy to find dozens (scores? hundreds?) of recommendations for vitamins, herbs, exercises, chiropracty, martial arts, and such. It’s a lot harder to identify sources of sensible, scientific information. Here are a few. Please feel free to contribute others by commenting.
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Monthly Archive for February, 2007
In a popular press article entitled “Ped Med: Autism myths abound” that is unusually well-informed among articles in its genre, Lidia Wasowicz of UPI describes some of the misinformation about Autism that is circulating. Here is a snippet from Ms. Wasowicz’s story:
Continue reading ‘Autism myths exposed’
Last September I reported on a study indicating that older fathers were more likely than their younger peers to have children who have autism. The story elicited comments about the potential importance of this matter. Since then, I’ve corresponded with Leslie Feldman, who left comments on this and other posts about the topic. Ms. Feldman sent me a document that discusses the relationship between paternal age and the chances of offsrping having autism or schizophrenia.
Despite my sloth, I finally managed to review and format Ms. Feldman’s observations, and I am glad to make them available to readers of EBD Blog as a Web page. Ms. Feldman’s document is entitled, “Fathers’ Age as Contributor to Risk for Autism.” Interested readers may view the document, including references and links to many resources on this topic, by following this link or by clicking on the page in the side rail (look under the heading “pages”).
My thanks to Ms. Feldman for her patience with me in the process of publishing this document and, more importantly, for taking the time to assemble this important content so that it can be communicated to the readers of EBD Blog.
Sphere: Related ContentThe Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders has issued a Call for Presentation Proposals for its 7th Biennial Conference to be held in Dallas (Irving), Texas on October 4-6, 2007 at the DFW Westin Hotel. The deadline for submitting proposals is March 1, 2007. The conference theme is Ensuring a Brighter Future for Troubled Children and Youth: Challenges and Solutions. Please refer the Web site for more information on the conference: http://www.unt.edu/behavioraldisorders
Sphere: Related ContentProject Forum, a Web site aimed at US special education administrators, released a report in January about how US state education agencies are adressing Autism spectrum disorders.
This In-Brief Policy Analysis clarifies terminology and reports findings gathered from a survey of state special education staff. Findings are reported in the following areas: state-level staff time and responsibilities; specific services for Part C eligible children; specific services for students with Asperger Syndrome; types of professional development activities offered; taskforce roles; how states measure outcomes; barriers to providing services to this population; and more. The most mentioned barrier to serving this growing population was the lack of educational professionals with ASD expertise.
Learn more about US states’ approaches to serving students with Autism.
Sphere: Related ContentOver on Mentor Matters, Mrs. Ris has a quick post that captures an almost-forgotten element of teaching students with Emotional and Behavioral Disoders (and, likely, just about any students). One day what a student does can seem nearly endearing and a source of wonder, but an experienced teacher knows that those same behaviors will not be acceptable in the longer run. It’s a good lesson about what it’s like to teach and see children day-in and day-out..
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