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Archive for September, 2006

Open letter to Raun Kaufman of Son-Rise

Saturday, September 30th, 2006

I read your press release today Mr Kaufman and I just wanted to pass on a few thoughts to you. Your PR piece for an upcoming tour of my country begins with: Parents of autistic children around the world face daily prognoses of hopelessness. Recent media stories highlight this: In April this year, Alison Davies, [...]

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Grandmas

Friday, September 29th, 2006

I spoke recently about Grandad’s and how Nat’s Grandad, Katie’s Grandad and Megan’s Grandad all helped their kids and their grandkids just through being there and accepting. Grandads bring calm and perspective. What about Grandmas? Its no exaggeration to say that without Naomi’s mum we would’ve been sunk a long time ago. In so many [...]

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Autism Podcast Interview

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

Autism Podcast Interview Michael from Autism Podcast interviewed me yesterday. It was the first time I’d been interviewed via Skype or trans-atlantically which was a novel experience. I was a bit concerned at how well the connection would hold up with VOIP still being a technology in its infancy but I think both Michael and [...]

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Grandads

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

After the murder of Katie, one of the things that shone through clearest of all in news reports and in blog comments sections and most of all in my private correspondance with him was the unquestioning love and total acceptance Mike has for Katie. My family nd Mike’s have swapped pictures of each other and [...]

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