Based on some in-coming traffic and then a message from someone who signed “Suzane Smith,” I learned that EBD Blog was included in a list of blogs about Autism. L. Mae Wilkinson, who may be associated with a Nurse Practioners School (but the affiliation isn’t quite clear), compiled the list. Anyway, here’s the scoop:
Nurse Practioners Select Top 50 Autism Support and Research Blogs
Nurse Practitioner Schools provides a website devoted to meeting the information needs of students who are considering enrolling in a nurse practitioner program. The schools provide straightforward answers to many nurse practitioner students’ common questions, as well as providing a national database from which nurse practitioner students can search nurse practitioner programs and degrees. Below is its selection of the top 50 blogs to keep abreast of new autism treatments, news and support for families, friends and individuals dealing with autism.
Although it’s flattering to have the recognition, I have to admit to some reservations about EBD Blog being included with some of the other sources listed on it. There are many familiar and, I think, trustworthy blogs on the list. And then there is one that’s so new it’s hard to know what it’ll offer (autismblog has two posts), another describing lots of alternative therapies (Curing Autism Blog), and another that champions unscientific information (Generation Rescue).
I’d fret about the company in which EBD Blog finds itself, except for the presence of Kathleen’s Neurodiversity blog, James Laidler’s Austim Watch, Jim Gerl’s blog about special education law, Kev Leitch’s Left Brain/Right Brain, the blog of the Autism Science Foundation, Sharon’s The Family Voyage, the Interverbal reviews, and others. Some of these and others are listed in the blogroll over there, on one side or the other of this page.
Anyway, here’s a link to the list.
I am surprised that you consider it an honor to be on a list with several Neurodiversity blog sites. These sites promote an ideological view of autism disorders which represents the view point of some fortunate, higher functioning persons with autism and aspergers and attempts to prevent public discussion of the harsher realities facing the more severely autistic. There is nothing helpful to the severely autistic to be found in Neurodiversity ideology.
Given your wholehearted endorsement of ND I have removed your blog from my blog list. No insult intended.