Ethnic background and attitude toward Special Education

January 29, 2009

While I have known for a while that some parents will look the other way when a child is struggling and will not have the child tested because they’re afraid or ashamed of the “special ed kid” label, I had not realized that minority families seem to be much more wary of that, until I [...]

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Antibiotics and increase in symptoms

January 28, 2009

My son got strep last week and is on antibiotics until the end of the week. Interestingly, I don’t know if it’s because of the antibiotics, lack of exercise and fresh air (it’s either snowing or too cold to go outside), boredom, or what, but we’ve seen some increase in symptoms recently — much more [...]

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Connection between levels of fetal testosterone and autistic traits

January 28, 2009

I wanted to title this post “Would you want to know if your child might be autistic?” but after reading in the Guardian Prof. Simon Baron-Cohen’s response article titled “Our research was not about prenatal screening for autism,” I have decided to give my post a different, more neutral title, and closer to the title [...]

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Engineers, Hips, and Autism

January 23, 2009

The headline “Men who don’t find curvy women attractive ‘could father children with autism’” sounds just too weird to pass up. I found it through Google alert on a rather curious blog “What Sorts of People.”
The entry does not comment on the title, just refers people to an article in the Daily Mail Reporter, published [...]

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Change.gov is closed, whitehouse.gov is up(dated)

January 21, 2009

I slightly panicked when I went to change.gov today and saw only a plain-looking box referring everyone to whitehouse.gov. I was afraid all the links I created to change.gov in my previous posts were broken. (“Citizen’s Briefing Book at change.gov” from January 13, 2009, and “Citizen’s Briefing Book update” from January 20, 2009) But I [...]

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Citizen's Briefing Book update

January 20, 2009

The Citizen’s Briefing Book, which I mentioned in the post “Citizen’s Briefing Book at change.gov” was closed on Sunday, January 18, 2009 (see “Wrapping up the Citizen’s Briefing Book”  entry on the change.gov blog).
“Revamp the Javits Gifted and Talented Students Education Program” got only 210 votes overall and two comments. I was glad to [...]

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Oh, I wish I were like Ruby…

January 18, 2009

Ruby from the “Max & Ruby” show that is. For those who’ve never seen the show, which is based on the books written by Rosemary Wells, and made by Canadian Nelvana (shown on Noggin and Nickelodeon channel) – Max and Ruby are (bunny) siblings, Max is supposed to be about three years old, and Ruby, [...]

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NTs or the Neurotypical

January 16, 2009

In her comment to my post “Why are white lies considered ‘politeness’?”, Debra mentions “the NT world.”
Responding to her comment, I wrote in the post scriptum “I doubt that anyone visiting my site would not know what NT, mentioned by Debra, means — but just in case — NT is short for ‘neurotypical’ or, as [...]

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Citizen's Briefing Book at change.gov

January 13, 2009

I think this is fairly new — it was published on President-Elect’s Blog today at 12:47 pm EST — The incoming president and his administration are inviting ideas and submissions to the Citizen’s Briefing Book.
The site promises “The best rated ideas will rise to the top — and be gathered into a Citizen’s Briefing Book [...]

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Why are white lies considered "politeness"?

January 11, 2009

I’ve lived in this country for nearly twenty years but I still can’t figure out why Americans consider as polite inserting little white lies pretending they care into conversations with people they really don’t give a damn about.
I’m talking about saying things like “We really have to keep in touch” to a coworker moving to [...]

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