News, commentary, resources, and more about Emotional and Behavioral Disorders.
The University of Pennsylvania Collaborative on Community Integration has published its latest newsletter. To view this newsletter in fully formated form, click here. You can also find this issue and previous ones in the newsletter archive on the UPenn Collaborative Web site.
Continue reading ‘UPenn newsletter June 08′
Sphere: Related ContentOver on All that Autism Douglas H. McDonald, Ph.D. is offering an online magazine focusing on Autism. The site offers a front page that features current news about research related to Autism. There are also other sections that provide resources, research, news about applied behavior analysis and law. Some of these appear to be feeds drawn from other sources, so they provide a ready way to keep current.
Continue reading ‘All that Autism’
Under the headline “Boy, 9, overcomes autism to play ball, win essay contest,” Hudson Sangree of the Sacramento (CA) Bee reported about Brandon Mark playing baseball. That may not seem worthy of an article, but because Brandon has Autism, it is. Here’s Mr. Sangree’s lead:
After their son Brandon was diagnosed with autism, Kelvin Mark and Cheryl Lieu worried he would never lead a normal life.
The two physicians, who live in the Sierra Oaks neighborhood, said they were concerned he might never be able to dress himself, feed himself or speak in coherent sentences. They wondered if he would develop the normal mechanisms of fear and avoidance that would prevent him from walking into traffic.
With Brandon’s hypersensitivity to sunlight, dirt and loud voices, the normal childhood pastime of playing Little League baseball seemed far out of reach.
So when Brandon, 9, got his first solid hit and rounded the bases to score, Kelvin Mark said it brought tears to his eyes.
Continue reading ‘Baseball and Autism’
Sphere: Related ContentNope, not an experiment about how to get kids to clean their rooms, but a proposal to study the effects of a hypoallergenic environment on the behavior of children with Autism. According to an article by Timothy McNulty entitled “Doctor plans novel treatment for autism,” that’s the idea. Writing in the 11 May 2008 issue of the Pittsburgh (PA, US) Post-Gazette, Mr. McNulty reported that a physician named Scott Faber in the Pittsburgh area plans to create an environment that will be free of toxins and examine the effects of living in such an environment on children with Autism.
Continue reading ‘Clean room study’
It’s one of those stories I wish hadn’t transpired. On the basis of evidence gained via facilitated communication, police mistakenly charged a man with abusing his daughter and, to compound the problem, they based their case in part on inappropriate interrogation of the man’s son, a boy who has Asperger Syndrome. Oakland County (M, US) prosecutor David Gorcyca dropped the case when he was unable to substantiate the FC-based allegations.
In an editorial 20 March 2008, the Detroit Free Press summarized the case and the terrible consequences to which the family was subjected because of it:
Continue reading ‘FC, sex, false interrogration–yuck’
In a New York Times article entitled “‘Mad Pride’ Fights a Stigma,” Gabrielle Glaser reports about efforts by individuals with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders to promote public understanding of their problems. Although I don’t usually cover adult issues on EBD Blog, I think this story merits mention.
Ms. Glaser leads with two cases:
Sphere: Related ContentIN the YouTube video, Liz Spikol is smiling and animated, the light glinting off her large hoop earrings. Deadpan, she holds up a diaper. It is not, she explains, a hygienic item for a giantess, but rather a prop to illustrate how much control people lose when they undergo electroconvulsive therapy, or ECT, as she did 12 years ago.
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