Local interest note: Some students at U.Va. have launched a service to match students with jobs such as baby-sitting, tutoring, and etc. For people in the Charlottesville (VA, US) area, this may be a worthwhile means of finding child care help. Here’s how Mike Gugel explains it:
It’s pretty hard to find a trustworthy babysitter or tutor in Charlottesville, especially if your child is disabled or has special needs. Friends and family aside, there aren’t many places you can turn to…. Hiring UVa students for child care ensures you’re getting qualified and responsible workers. So if you need a babysitter, a tutor for your kids, help moving, computer help, or any other short term job, it might be worth checking out www.collegequickjobs.com.
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Writing in the current issue of Scientific American, Mark Alpert reported on contemporary research about dietary intervention in Autism. Under the title, “The Autism Diet,” Mr. Alpert described the flawed research that has previously been touted as evidence of the benefits of diets such as those that eliminate gluten or casein or that use omega-3 fatty acids as supplements. He also described current and rigorous studies being conducted by Robin Hansen, Susan Hyman, and others.
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In a pair of experiments reported in the prestigous journal Child Development, Ms. Elisa Back and colleagues from the University of Nottingham (UK) examined whether adolescents with Autism infer mental states less well than their peers. The issue is of interest because some researchers have hypothesized that inadequate skill in interpreting facial expressions may account, in part, for some of the social deficits of people with Autism. Ms. Back and her colleagues sought to clarify whether the phenomenon occurs and, if it does, whether certain parts of the face are difficulty for people with Autism to interpret.
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While poking around the Internet (something that takes too much of my time), I was glad to discover that
http://best.online.docus.googlepages.com/
has a streaming video on Temple Grandin and another on Kim Peek. Look under the heading (of course) “Lifestyle/Society.”
Flash of the electrons to the Houvourases at Behavior Concepts for the lead.
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The Incredible Years programs, which comprise a coordinated set of (a) parent training programs and individual family counseling, (b) teacher training and school consultation, and (c) group child training in social skills, problem-solving, and anger management, are in the news again. The IY programs are aimed at reducing conduct problems in young children. They have been researched extensively.
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Over on Soapy Water you can read molly_g’s musings about why she has agreed to have her son take medication. I commend it to readers as a way to check perceptions.
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