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Paramount has acquired movie rights to Steve Silberman’s science book “Neurotribes” and set up the project with Lorne Michaels at his Broadway Video production company.
It's not only reasonable to criticize the casting of non-transgender individuals as transgender characters or to bemoan the whitewashing of nonwhite characters. It's necessary.
One thing that is important to know about autism up front: There is no cure for autism. So, products or treatments claiming to “cure” autism do not work as claimed. The same is true of many products claiming to “treat” autism or autism-related symptoms. Some may carry significant health risks.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plays an important role in warning these companies against making improper claims about their products’ intended use as a treatment or cure for autism or autism-related symptoms.
April is Autism Month, which means many things to the ten-plus million people who make up our community in America. For some, it’s Autism Awareness. For others, it’s Autism Acceptance. And there are those who wish for Autism Cure. We have yet to agree on what we want, or what to stand for, and that holds us back in terms of advocacy. We also don’t agree when it comes to who’s part of our community.
There is a child at this event, as cute as any Baby Gap model, thick tufts of brown hair sticking out from under his baseball hat.
“I’m Charlie. I’m 4, ” he says to me and sticks his hand out.
I smile at him and reach my hand out too, but before he can shake my hand, he runs off to chase the other children.
Earlier this week, the White House and autism organizations around the world celebrated the 10th annual World Autism Awareness Day. Actor William Shatner, best known for his role in Star Trek, changed his profile icon and tweeted his support into the related hashtag to draw awareness to the disability. Today, he was inundated with outrage from social justice warriors likened his support for autism awareness to hate speech. They further expressed their anger towards organizations like Autism Speaks, which sponsored the event.
Susan Scutti
(CNN) Preventable injuries often lead to death among people with autism, a new study says. They are three times more likely than the general population to die because of injuries, according to the study, published Tuesday in the American Journal of Public Health.
In Australia, there used to be widespread agreement that vaccinating children against fatal diseases was a good thing. Kids got shots, and the rate of childhood diseases plummeted.
But then things changed. In 1994, a group calling itself the Australian Vaccination Network launched a campaign claiming the risks of vaccines (which are essentially nonexistent). Its core mission: “to ensure that vaccinations are never made compulsory for Australian children." (Years later, the group was forced to change its name to the Australian Vaccination-Skeptics Network, or else be de-registered.) The group seized on a fraudulent, wholly discredited paper linking the MMR vaccine to autism.
Taylor Stevenson’s family never left him out of conversations, but they never expected him to participate, either. His contributions, if he made any, were a few random words—gibberish or a Big Bird quote.
The paper contains a jarring statement: the rate of autism spectrum disorder rose by "almost 400%" from 2007 to 2011, but the statement is wrong.
The paper in question is published online today by Pediatrics, but a close review of the data revealed that the number was drastically inflated.