Earlier this week, the Charleston (WV, US) Daily Mail carried a story entitled “Black children with autism diagnosed later” that reported about the problem of false negative identifications by ethnicity. The story recounts the case of a boy named Ronnie who went through a string of other diagnoses before being identified as having autism.
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Monthly Archive for May, 2007
Danielle Deaver of the of the Winston-Salem (NC) Journal has a detailed and compelling pair of articles about Autism and the struggles of families to find and pay for effective treatment. Under the headlines “A Costly Search for Help, Answers” and “Effective Help is Out of Reach for Most Families,” Ms. Deaver proivdes an unusually good treatment of the difficult choices that families face and the constraints under which state and local education agencies operate.
Sadly, schools in some places may use policies favoring inclusion, generic labeling, and narrow interpretations of the Rowley principle in ways that preclude children and their families from receiving needed services. Ms. Deaver describes the case of Debbie and Michael Wittenberg’s son as an illustration of these sort of policies; the case is currently in legal review.
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A blogger somewhere in EBD Blog’s neighborhood who is identified as “Hymes” maintains a site entitled Charlottesville Prejudice Watch. CPW appears to focus on psychiatric disability issues, some with a personal spin and others with a broader perspective. Although there are entries relevant to children and youth (see one about Whisper Ridge), CPW does not appear to have a specific interest in children and youth nor in schooling, but some of the issues covered there may be of importance to readers of this source, so I’m noting it here.
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NARSAD: The Mental Health Research Association announced its grants for 2007, including 23 Distinguished Investigators and 222 Young Investigators. The awards represent more than $15 million in grants, and many of them are relevant to Emotional and Behavioral Disorders among children and youths.
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In an article entitled “City special-ed lapses increase school violence,” Martha Woodall and Susan Snyder of the Philadelphia (PA, US) Inquirer describe how the local education agency’s failure to provide appropriate services to a student with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders played a role in that student’s beating of a teacher. On 23 February 2007 in a hallway outside Frank Burd’s algebra class, student Donte Boykin pushed his teacher (Mr. Burd) into another student, James Footman. Mr. Footman punched Mr. Burd in the face repeatedly, and Mr. Burd fell, breaking his neck.
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