Monday Autism News Potpourri (on Wednesday)
Published July 01, 2009 @ 11:00AM PT
Clearing out a some news stuff I didn't get a chance to transmute into posts while I was offline, plus some shameless self-promotion.
1. A new Medicare rehospitalization rate report states some alarming statistics (e.g., "almost one of every five [Medicare recipients] was rehospitalized within 30 days following discharge for an illness, or surgery"). This is why it's so very, very important to include long term supports and services in any health care reform that seeks to reduce emergency care and rehospitalization rates.
2. Sweet article in the New York Times They Taught Him to Fish, Then Let Go profiles a high school graduate and all the possibilities that are truly open for any one of us.
3. A slightly different sort of graduate profile, this one from college. I didn't like this article as much--it's a bit overboard with the "overcoming" type language. However, it does clearly illustrate the importance of self-awareness and self-advocacy in getting the kind of life you want.
4. Special interests, art, and employment = spray painty goodness for AS teen. Includes impressive photo!
5. A 5 Common Myths About Autism post for anyone who enjoys collecting those.
6. Shameless Self-Promotion: My research group the Academic Autistic Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education AASPIRE has started a new online research project. This project is open to people with and without disabilities, and to people on and off the autistic spectrum--in other words everyone! For more information about participating, please see aaspire.org/gateway.
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Dora is committed to improving quality of life for individuals on the autistic spectrum--including herself! She is Co-director of the Academic Autistic Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education and a member of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network's Board of Directors.
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Aw, c'mon! We know we're not all geniuses, but why'd you have to tell *them*??
Posted by Mark Romoser on 07/01/2009 @ 11:50AM PT
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Follow-up on (#2)---just had to quote these lines, as they have been feeling very familiar.
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As a middle school student he was isolated from other children and placed in the corner of a foyer where the solution was to let him bounce on a trampoline, ride an exercise bike and nap as frequently as possible. His parents were told that at least one teacher referred to him as “an animal” from whom other students needed protection.
The school district insisted that Dan be sent to an institutional setting, an idea his parents balked at even before a state official had warned them that a school recommended by the district had problems with pedophilia.
And for all the expense and havoc, the $50,000 yearly baby-sitting bills, the disruption he created to careers and relationships, they didn’t want their son in an institution. They wanted him in a local school and in his own house.
“Parenthood is not something you can abdicate,” Mr. Mulvaney said. “No one is going to look after your child better than you, especially a hard child.”
Posted by Kristina Chew on 07/01/2009 @ 01:45PM PT
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