This is an article written by EpiRen. Since his blog has gone offline, I am republishing these articles since I find that they contain some good descriptive information. Here is “Epidemiology Night School: Descriptive Epidemiology”: Let’s say that you have been told by several of your neighbors that they became ill after the neighborhood mixer [...]
I’ve said it before: I really like David Mandell’s work. He and his team take on some very important and tough questions. I am very concerned about the lack of information on autistic adults. We don’t know an accurate prevalence. Without study ongoing into the needs of autistic adults, those of us with autistic children [...]
Jim has to go into New York today to work today and we’d prepared Charlie in advance, via the hand-written multicolor calendar I made last…
Here is an introductory post by EpiRen on his Epidemiology Night School Project: I’m seriously thinking of writing a series of posts about epidemiology, making the most complex concepts as clear as I can. I would call this project “Epidemiology Night School.” I would offer no college credit for it, though. And I would not [...]
I spoke with a very special family today. They will be the very first recipient of an Android4Autism device. I am very excited to be able to do this. I will have more information in the very near future. For right now I just wanted to share this wi…
I was asked about my diet again, a question that seems to be asked about a third of the time when I discuss autism with groups. This inevitably leads to parents (and some support providers) starting to argue about the various “treatments” such as the g…
Joey and Andy have been having a Pinball Day. As in, they have been bouncing about like pinballs. Eep.
We pulled up to a gas station, and waited for the pump to fill the tank. Suddenly, the car starts bouncing about as if… well, as if little boys d…
Emmett decided to climb onto my shoulders for the very first time. In the past he was always uninterested or afraid. Then the other day I was sitting on the couch and he came up behind me and jumped up on my shoulders. Just one of those things that s…
A new post of mine over at PKIDs blog, where I’m a regular blogger. It starts like this:
What’s not to fear directly about vaccines? There’s a needle that someone pokes into your child. Your child screams. You tense up. What’s in there? you wond…
Gavin and Elliott have orientation today. This isn’t a big deal for Gavin at this point but it’s a bigger deal for Elliott. Elliott has mixed feelings about going to a new school. I’m really hoping today goes well for him. He …