the autism crisis: science & ethics in the era of autism advocacy

Peter Szatmari is the best known and most influential of Canada's autism researchers. His published papers are always worth reading, reg...

There have been a few posts lately about self-diagnosis . Earlier this year, the issue of diagnosis became the subject of a petition, when d...

As I pointed out here a bit earlier , the Canadian Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology made this statement i...

A while back, Autism Diva wrote about some testimony I gave as a witness in Canada's Senate. This was for the Standing Committee on Soc...

This Verbatim is in two parts, from the same paper (Koegel et al., 1974). Here is the first part, which is Table 1 from this paper. "Su...

Liberal MP Andy Scott's motion to create a national autism strategy was passed in the House of Commons today. All national political pa...

Below are a few pieces (not very organized) of my informal and personal writing about autism and self-injury. I wrote these pieces for vario...

Canada's Health Minister, Tony Clement, recently made some announcements about the future of autistics in Canada. One thing he announced...

Nancy Minshew, of the University of Pittsburg School of Medicine, is an influential autism researcher. I find her published work very intere...

Harold Doherty is a leading Canadian autism advocate. He has a blog, on which he has just posted his expert opinion (Mr Doherty is a lawyer)...

Based on the arguments and testimony of autism advocates (parents, professionals, government officials, etc.), the jurisprudence for autisti...

You've never heard everything, when it comes to autism advocacy. They'll always find a way to denigrate autistics even more, to make...

When you read Ivar Lovaas' work, you're always running into statements you can't forget , even though you might wish to. This is...

When some kinds of human beings are devalued, the people doing the devaluing often work to enshrine this devaluation in written and unwritt...

The Globe and Mail today started a series about cancer in Canada. I'm working my way through a long article, in multiple parts, called C...

There won't be a last word on aversives... ... until autism advocates (including politicians, parents, and professionals), in Canada and...

Kit Weintraub is an important and respected autism advocate. Her work has gained the approval of the Association for Science in Autism Treat...

In parts one and two I looked at some of the claims made in Sabrina Freeman's book, "Science for Sale in the Autism Wars", in ...

Here are some quotes from two recent media stories, from two sets of parents, about their children: First set: "I try not to dwell on...

In her book "Science for Sale in the Autism Wars" (p68), Sabrina Freeman states that only four of the 19 experimental group autist...