The proposal pushed by a former NBC chairman would monitor phones and watches of the mentally ill. Source: White House weighs controversial plan on mental illness and mass shootings – The Washington Post
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“The Lovaas (ABA) that was frequently quoted to me. … if you could just good early intervention, which everybody is for, and we got for him, …there’s a 50% chance he’ll be a typical child in 5 years. So that sounded like good odds. Little did I know that’s never been replicated. … and, you […]
Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed that childhood vaccines cause autism. He likely got the idea from the former chairman and CEO of NBCUniversal. Source: How Donald Trump became an anti-vaxxer – Insider
Cure Autism Now … A Brief History Here’s a bit of history on CAN, one of the organizations that merged with Autism Speaks in 2007. Many thanks to Amanda Seigler for documenting so much #AutisticHistory in her reports. https://www.fierceautie.com/…/autistic-history-cure-autism-… #actuallyautistic #lightitupgold #IAmAutisticAndIVote
In the Loop About Neurodiversity · October 2 · The Autism CARES Act was officially signed into law by President Trump. This is not good news for the autistic community, but Autism Speaks and the Autism Society of America, both harmul “autism charities” who have little to no autistic people involved in their organizations, […]
Autism Speaks, founded in 2005 by Bob and Suzanne Wright, sometimes seems to have taken over the entire conversation about autism in this country, what with their blue puzzle pieces littered all over the landscape, coming to symbolize, wrongly, autism itself. Yet in spite of their ostensible role as a voice for autism, they’ve got […]
Message From The Archives | Nov. 2008 | by Eve Reiland I’m not a fan of Autism Speaks. Signed up for their walk before I realized really what they were about. On the surface it sounds good — but with more understanding I can’t believe these folks are the loudest voice. There has to be […]
