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Autism Spectrum Disorders

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2012

    Should You Worry About New York's Rising Autism Rate?

    Today is World Autism Awareness Day, which happens to come shortly the Centers for Disease Control announced that 1/88 children nationwide has an autism spectrum disorder -- a 23 percent increase since the last report was released in 2009. Long term, this represents a 78 percent increase from data g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    No Gays In The Dolly Parton/Latifah Film!

    In the script, that is. Let me first say that Joyful Noise -- with rival chantoozies Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton warring over how to run their small-town choir -- is corny and formulaic, but a kind of fun guilty pleasure for January.

  • Film

    March 30, 2011

    Wretches & Jabberers: An Info Packet on Autism

    In the script, that is. Let me first say that Joyful Noise -- with rival chantoozies Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton warring over how to run their small-town choir -- is corny and formulaic, but a kind of fun guilty pleasure for January.

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2011

    The iPad 2 Will Change The Way You Spend $500

    Will It Have Number Munchers?​Steve Jobs surprised the crowd and received a standing ovation at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco today. It was thought Apple COO Tim Cook would fill in for the reportedly ailing Jobs, but the Turtlenecked One was there to announce the release ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    December 29, 2010

    The English Beat

    Will It Have Number Munchers?​Steve Jobs surprised the crowd and received a standing ovation at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco today. It was thought Apple COO Tim Cook would fill in for the reportedly ailing Jobs, but the Turtlenecked One was there to announce the release ... More >>

  • Film

    September 22, 2010

    Arrogance Meets Autism in A Mother's Courage

    Will It Have Number Munchers?​Steve Jobs surprised the crowd and received a standing ovation at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco today. It was thought Apple COO Tim Cook would fill in for the reportedly ailing Jobs, but the Turtlenecked One was there to announce the release ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    Whooping Cough, There It Is: 2010's Big Epidemic.

    ​While "Whooping Cough" sounds like something you catch on The Oregon Trail right before your oxen die of dysentery from trying to cross the river, it's actually a deadly cold that's currently killing babies in California right now at a rate not seen since 1955. Why's this happening, and how d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    Kid Rides Subways for 11 Days; Asperger's Blamed

    ​Forget the 9-year-old whose Mom lets him ride the subway alone: On October 15, 13-year-old Francisco Hernandez, Jr. left a classroom where he'd gotten into trouble and hung out in the subways for 11 days. It sounds like a more extreme version of a familiar runaway story, but the Times explai ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    Bar Drunk Calls Me Autistic!

    Remember my blog about ditching that control freak who tried to micromanage where we should go, what I should say, and how he could put me down? Well, a few months ago, I updated that with a post about how we'd had a nice reconciliation and became friends again, but now that's all evaporated like th ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    March 11, 2009

    Ladyhawke

    Remember my blog about ditching that control freak who tried to micromanage where we should go, what I should say, and how he could put me down? Well, a few months ago, I updated that with a post about how we'd had a nice reconciliation and became friends again, but now that's all evaporated like th ... More >>

  • Film

    January 7, 2009

    Yonkers Joe Tries to Save His Son and His Two-Bit Role

    Remember my blog about ditching that control freak who tried to micromanage where we should go, what I should say, and how he could put me down? Well, a few months ago, I updated that with a post about how we'd had a nice reconciliation and became friends again, but now that's all evaporated like th ... More >>

  • Film

    December 3, 2008

    Elissa Down's The Black Balloon

    This auspicious Oz import is a sign of bright, young filmmaking in Australia

  • News

    May 15, 2007

    Shocking Behavior

    Parents lobby lawmakers to have their kids zapped

  • Film

    April 17, 2007

    'Snow Cake'

    Parents lobby lawmakers to have their kids zapped

  • Film

    March 27, 2007

    'Ping Pong'

    Parents lobby lawmakers to have their kids zapped

  • Theater

    June 13, 2006

    Prognosis: Negative

    Troubled teen, caretakers stuck in development hell

  • Theater

    January 17, 2006

    Head Cases

    An autism opera, an aphasia comedy, a Tourette's musical

  • Books

    January 25, 2005

    Range Life

    How the autistic brain explains the interior life of animals

  • Books

    July 22, 2003

    Auto Focus

    Strange Ways, Here We Come

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