Childswork was out on the local Long Island scene last Thursday April 19th at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury to show our support for autism awareness and promote all the great things celebrities are doing to give back. Dee Snider...
I have a really special treat for readers this morning. If you don’t already know her, Ann Bauer is a writer and mother of three. Her oldest son, Andrew, is autistic. At 24 years old, Andrew leads an independent, though...
Today, I am sharing a new post with you from one of my favorite special needs bloggers – Gavin Bollard. Gavin is a married father who found out about his own Asperger’s syndrome only once his son was diagnosed with...
ChildsWork News, April 13, 2012: Looking at the New Autism Diagnosis and the Movie Bully As we head into the weekend, I have two interesting articles for you all to read through. The first, from Science Daily details a study...
[caption id="attachment_1354" align="alignleft" width="300"] Photo of the Portland skyline courtesy of Chuck Felix[/caption] A Rising Number of Oregon Students Need Special Education Accommodations, Report Finds: This week, the state of Oregon's Department of Education released two reports on the current...
Good morning CW Readers! Today I want to focus on three key articles from different positions in the autism community. With the rates of autism diagnosis increasing each year and the new definition of autism in the DSM-5, there is...
Unless you’ve been cut off from the news for the past couple of days you have likely heard the big news about the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) and its new definition of Autism...
[caption id="attachment_828" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Image courtesy of smokedsalmon"][/caption] A $26.5 million grant given to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from the Simons Foundation could mean a breakthrough in autism research in 2012. This grant will go towards the construction and...
