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Autism Advocacy: Developing New Markets

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Autism Speaks is hiring. You can find their job posts on the Web. Nothing surprising about that. Here is a segment from a recent job post: Autism Speaks is the world’s largest autism science and advocacy organization, dedicated to funding global biomedical research into the causes, prevention, treatment and cure for autism. We currently have [...]

Student placed in cardboard box for time out, others called mentally retarded in their yearbook

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Two stories out today show In the first (see Teacher gets lengthy suspension after student put in box) as part of a “time out” punishment. A large cardboard box was found in a classroom. When a parent asked what the box was for, she was told that the box was for time outs for another [...]

ASAN: URGENT! Ask Your Senators to Support a Ban on Aversives!

Monday, May 21st, 2012

The Autistic Self Advocacy Network has called an urgent action alert to call for the ban of aversives in the state of Massachusetts, home of the Judge Rotenberg Center. Residents of Massachusetts can call their state senators and support legislation that could stop the use of aversives. Ask Your Senators for a Ban on Aversives [...]

TPGA: IMFAR 2012: An Update on the ASD DSM-5 Recommendations

Saturday, May 19th, 2012

There is much discussion on the DSM 5 at IMFAR. This includes talks from Sue Swedo at the stakeholder’s lunch and a formal (and highly attended) conference talk The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism has four of their editors at the conference and has an article on the DSM 5 discussion. IMFAR 2012: An Update [...]

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