Education for Aspies and Auties
Sheila Schoonmaker, author of the Sheila Schoonmaker blog, writes about mainstreaming autistic students versus better education environments.
�??Special needs classrooms are still in the mainstream environment. Those classrooms will not only never be built differently enough, they can never become customized for each Aspie [...]
The parked car bounced. Craig wiggled in his booster seat avoiding the seatbelt Jay was trying to latch. He let out a string of words, only partially understandable.
Jay spoke back sternly.
I turned around in the driver�??s chair and said, �??Both of you quit arguing.�?? Ugh, for the last [...]
This past April a community was formed. Bloggers from all backgrounds, cultures and countries came together with various experiences and opinions to blog for Autism Awareness.
My son was born after midnight during the cooler days of May, before the Central Valley could blaze triple-digit temperatures. The delivery room was packed full of people. The doctor, several nurses, my husband, my parents and my mother-in-law were in attendance. As my son emerged [...]
So, getting an official diagnosis of autism hasn't made everything as different as I thought it might. I guess I was a little surprised that my son was diagnosed as autistic rather than having Asperger's syndrome, but since there is a list of criteria that [...] By now you’ve probably heard that 1 in 150 children have autism. The number is plastered on billboards, reported on the news, talked about on Oprah, and written about in newspapers and magazines. The number of people blogging for autism awareness this month is growing. We are now 86 bloggers strong. Just think that�??s enough folks to create autism awareness in more than 8,600 people. Want to help raise that number to 10,000? Join forces with us. [...] Autism covered by insurance? Not! Adult diagnosis: Blessing or curse? Ten great things about my child Acceptance delay assessment? Been told you might have Asperger�??s?As so many of you already know, autism is a complex condition, and the search for the cause of autism has, in some ways, been equally complex. Everyone who�??s turned on the TV or read a newspaper is probably aware of the long raging debate over the MMR vaccine, thimerosol [...]
