Over on Behavior Mod Info, I’ve dropped a post about blogs from which one can learn about applications of behavior analysis to autism. Some of the readers of EBD Blog may find this of interest. Here’s the link.
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Over on Nature News Alison Abbott has a story about some of the difficulties researchers encounter in pursuing genetic causes of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders. It’s worth a read.
Psychiatric genetics: The brains of the family
Does the difficulty in finding the genes responsible for mental illness reflect the complexity of the genetics or the poor definitions of psychiatric disorders? Alison Abbott reports.
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Sphere: Related ContentIn Nature Medicine, Genevive Bjorn reported that parents of some children are foregoing vaccines, deciding to expose their children directly to other children who have illnesses such as measles or chicken pox. Apparently, parents who choose this method of developing their children’s immunities communicate with each other and, when one child becomes ill, they coordinate meetings—playdates—among the child and others who have not yet developed the immunity.
Continue reading ‘Natural-immunity parties’
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.
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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.
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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’
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