Monthly Archive for May, 2008

The look

It’s true. I must update the look of the blog. Changes in the underlying software that controls the general system (killer good WordPress) and the related software (as of this writing, I’m still using the wonderful K2 theme) that controls the look of the site (layout, colors, etc.) made some of my settings fail even worse than they were failing before I updated the software. I’m working on it, honest. Now that I have a little more air in my calendar, that’ll get easier.

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Chelation death charges dropped

Writing for the Associated Press, Dan Nephin reported that charges against Dr. A. T. Nadama related to the death during chelation therapy of a young boy with Autism have been dropped.
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Prevalence of EBD

Over on Teachers At Risk (great title!), Elona Hartjes has a post about her reaction to a popular press discussion about the prevalence of mental illness among school children.

Twenty percent of kids sitting in classrooms today are mentally ill. That’s shocking. What’s even more shocking is that only 1/5 of that twenty percent are getting treatment.

I could hardly believe my ears tonight when I heard that statistic on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin. Next week, May 3 - May 10, 2008 , is Children’s Mental Health Week and I suppose that’s why the program, “Kids aren’t right” aired tonight.

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