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  • Beyond Guilt or Innocence - About youth with autism spectrum conditions and their contacts with the juvenile justice system--a journal article for the 2004 spring issue of Leadership Perspectives in Developmental Disability by Dennis Debbaudt. The Forum is a project of the UCE at the Shriver Center, a division of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Technical Support is provided by New England INDEX. This is an Official Page/Publication of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. The DD Leadership Forum is funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, federal Department of Health and Human Services. - Spring 2004
  • Daniels's Success Story.  A Determined Mother Demonstrates that Full Recovery from Autism is Possible by Mary Romaniec    Mother's Magazine - September 2004
  • DEALING WITH KIDS' SETBACKS By Dan Coulter
  • Defying autism / Despite disorder, Grandin finds success as designer of livestock-handling equipment - Temple Grandin talks about autism and her life during an interview Sunday in Dodge City. Ask Temple Grandin to describe how she thinks, and she tells you to name something that isn't familiar to her and isn't in the same room. If you say "a pyramid," she immediately visualizes the pyramid on a dollar bill, followed by a photo of a pyramid on the cover of a recent National Geographic magazine. Then her mind conjures up images of the sphinx, followed by the stone lions in front of a New York City library, by Eric Swanson - 12/2004
  • Diagnosis, Misdiagnosis and Advocacy--An AS Adult Explains AS 1999
  • Different for decades - Geeky. Clueless. Loner. Loser. Just plain odd. All their lives, they have heard these words and society's ruthless verdict that, try as they might, they can never achieve that indefinable state of "fitting in." Finally these people are hearing a new word: Asperger's. At long last, medicine has a label for their quirks. "Before I got a diagnosis, even I thought I was crazy," said one man attending a Middlesex support group. "I thought I was weird, strange. And I didn't know why," by Kathleen O'Brian - 11/2004
  • Disclosure of autism information to CDC or any other organization from a student's individual educational records - 2004
  • Discovering Asperger Syndrome by Dan Coulter
  • Executive Dysfunction - The term “executive functioning”  refers to mental processes involved in goal-directed activity.  The work on this has been primarily done in Neuropsychology but the implications for educators are important. Executive functioning has been rather under-discussed in the school context as yet (stay tuned for my dissertation J) where these issues have been attributed to failures in discipline rather than brain function by Kristine S. Knight
  • Executive Functioning - Executive Functioning is the brain's ability to absorb information, interpret this information, and make decisions based upon this information. For example, most people have a routine when they get up in the morning. Some mornings you might look out the window and see something is dripping from the sky. This dripping is interpreted as "rain" which implies a set of rules (i.e., needing to wear different clothes, the soccer game will be canceled which means you need to make other arrangements for an after school activity, rolling down the windows while you drive is not wise, you don't need to water the grass today, etc.), by Alex Michaels
  • FEAT of Oregon presents a unique Halloween experience for the entire family! Read more.  Purchase tickets online. 9/2004
  • Formal Assessment Tool  to Assess Sensory and Motor Functioning in People with Asperger's Syndrome
  • George’s Place - Autism swept him off to a secret world. Could his grandmother find a way to meet him halfway? By Carolyn See, September & October 2004 AARP Magazine
  • Good People Behaving Badly / Bad Behavior No Matter What - The following post is a modified, later edited version of a response first sent to a listserv specializing in adult Asperger Syndrome issues.  It was sparked by a lively discussion concerning AS adults caught in criminal entanglements, and the rush to their defense of some individuals in the disability support community by Roger N. Meyer
  • High cost education -  "A year at Yale University is cheaper than what it can cost to educate one student with autism disorders for one year in the Bucks County school system. School districts can spend at least $50,000 a year educating a child with this lifelong disorder that impairs communication and social interaction skills," by phillyburbs.com - 9/2004
  • How "Educational Assessments" Skew Autism Prevalence Rates - During an Individual Education Plan (IEP) meeting with our local school district, one of the teachers suggest that my younger son was autistic. This surprised me because we had just provided a letter from a well-respected developmental pediatrician that specified why the boy not meet the diagnostic criteria for autism. In response to my concerns, the teacher and school psychologist explained that he met the criteria for autism as determined in Oregon under a federal law called the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), by James R. Laidler, M.D.
  • Is Autistic Artistic? - The pre-Columbian Impressive gallery shows are on display all over New York as part of "Outsider Art Week." This year, the main event, the opening of the Outsider Art Fair at the Puck Building, begins with a benefit for the American Folk Art Museum on the evening of Jan 27, 2004.  In the meantime, a sophisticated group show can be found, as usual around this time of year, at the Ricco/Maresca Gallery in SoHo. One notable thing about the current exhibition is its title, "Autism/Asperger's/Art." By N. F. Karlins - 1/2005
  • Life on and Slightly to the Right of the Autism Spectrum by Stephen Shore - 2003
  • Listening to Your Kids - How are you listening to your kids?  If you're one of those rare "born listeners" who can get almost anyone to open up, you're lucky. If you're like the rest of us, you can probably improve your listening skills, by Dan Coulter
  • Lost Boys - Autism and My Son - They used to be thought of as loners, misfits, even geniuses. Now they're being labeled "autistic." But here's the scary part: The diagnosis may boil down to an excess of maleness, by Lou Schuler / Men’s Health 9/2004 
  • New Expectations - 2004
  • New UO program trains autism specialists  - 9/2004
  • One Boy's Journey Out of Autism's Grasp - "...James has autism. He is one of 150,000 or more American children classified in the last decade as having the once-rare disorder, including 25,000 in 2003. Half a century ago, polio epidemics left perhaps 5,000 children a year with some degree of disability, and the sight of children stricken overnight galvanized the nation. But autism's arrival, and the response to it, has not been so dramatic, by John O'Neil - 12/2004
  • Oregon Public Schools Autism Prevalence Report - School Year 1992-2003 - .pdf
  • Perhaps they're just wired a bit differently - People with brain disorders seek more acceptance by Amy Harmon, NY Times – 7/2004
  • PROMISING FUTURE / With a successful autism program in place, parents fear having their children removed if they don't show progress - SPECIAL REPORT: EDUCATING AUTISTIC CHILDREN.  Parents pour their hopes and San Joaquin County educators pour thousands of dollars every year into applied behavior analysis, an intensive therapy for autistic children that is widely regarded as one of the most promising treatments for the neurological disorder.
  • Reducing Special Needs Parent Stress - A lot of parents who have kids with special needs get a free helping of stress every day.  With extra nuts -- and sprinkles.  If this is you, how do you start an anti-stress diet?  Start small.  Take a  break. Oh yeah, right.  When are you going to find the time? by Dan Coulter - 11/2004
  • Report on Effective Autism Treatment - Adams & Steward
  • Results Falling Short of Claims in Behavior Therapy for Autism - Desperate parents of autistic children have tried almost everything - hormone injections, exotic diets, faith healing  in the hope of finding a cure, by Benedict Carey  - 12/2004
  • Revenge of the Nerds  - Once outcasts, some autistics now see their condition as a cognitive gift and even the next stage in human evolution—at the dawn of the transhuman age, who's to say they're wrong?" By George Dvorsky
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  • Shutdowns and Stress in Autism - What is a shutdown? A shutdown is a particular sequence of behavior which we observed in a child diagnosed as high-functioning within the autistic spectrum. In academic settings when pressured by an adult to perform tasks that were difficult, she became unresponsive, sleepy, immobile, and limp to the touch for several minutes, and then fell asleep in a chair for as briefly as 10 min. and up to 2 hours. These “shutdown” (SD) states were always triggered by social stress of a certain kind and they became more severe and frequent over a period of about a year. Do shutdowns worsen the symptoms of autism ?  By Ingrid M. Loos Miller and Hendricus G. Loos - This article is written for parents.  - 9/2004

    • Shutdown States and Stress Instability in Autism  by Ingrid M. Loos Miller and Hendricus G. Loos - This is a  scientific version of the paper and provides a detailed discussion of the physiological basis and mechanisms involved.  - 9/2004

  • Some Extremely Reasonable Suggestions for “Typical” Parents, Family, and Teachers on Behalf of Kids With Asperger’s Syndrome.  By Jennifer McIlwee Myers, Aspie-at-Large
  • Teaming up on Bullies by Dan Coulter - 7/2004