Left Brain/Right Brain - Autism News, Science and Opinion since 2003

  • Join the Facebook Left Brain/Right Brain Network
  • Follow Left Brain/Right Brain on Twitter
  • Favorite Left Brain/Right Brain on Technorati
  • Stumble Left Brain/Right Brain
  • Follow the Left Brain/Right Brain Tumblelog
  • Get new posts as email
  • Subscribe via RSS

Archive for the ‘News’ Category

The MA State Senate: Please Stop Painful Electric Shocks on Students at JRC in Massachusetts!

Monday, April 30th, 2012

A petition is hosted on Change.org: The MA State Senate: Please Stop Painful Electric Shocks on Students at JRC in Massachusetts! The Judge Rotenberg Center uses electric shocks as part of their program for some of the students in their care. The JRC is not allowed to use these aversives on new students, but still [...]

Woot! Autistics and Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism editor quoted in New York Times

Sunday, April 8th, 2012

A story out today by Amy Harmon of the New York Times, The Autism Wars, takes on some of the discussion ongoing about the new prevalence numbers out from the CDC. It is well worth the read. What caught my eye, as one could tell from the title of this article, are paragraphs like these: [...]

HHS announces new members of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced the public membership for the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC). The press release is below. HHS announces new members of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that she has invited 15 individuals to serve as public [...]

What letter, Mr. Olmsted? Why this one, of course.

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

When Brian Deer wrote one of his 2009 article for the Sunday Times: Focus: Hidden records show MMR truth, he introduced the article with a discussion of the father of Child 11, the only American child in the Lancet 12: ON a Monday morning in February 1997, a taxi left the Royal Free hospital, in [...]

Autism Family Adventures
Jobs for autism

Last 10 Headlines

Last 10 Comments