Autism One Radio

Check it out. There is an ALL Autism internet radio station called Autism One. Here is there boilerplate

Our message is simple: Our children get better; many fully recover given the proper treatments and therapies. You will hear our message loudly and repeatedly.

Our Children Get Better!

Recovery is not a rumor, or a myth, or a dream; or an article of faith, it is a fact borne of tens of thousands of children who have improved dramatically, many recovered. Our enemies are time and ignorance.

Autism is multivariate in presentation and cure. The disease bows to the collective weight of doctors working with therapists working with educators working with researchers working with parents working to recover their children.

Our hosts include the most knowledgeable autism experts across a variety of fields. Many are also parents of children with autism, a great number recovered or on the road to recovery. Their combination of education, experience, passion, and insight puts theory into practice helping turn difficult questions into real-life answers.

I've sampled some and find it very good. I read about it in Autism Digest.

Adam

No More Sodas...

'The Independent' is reporting some spooky new information about sodas. I knew that had a ton of sugar and that the average american eats fifteen POUNDS of suger each year in sodas but I didn't know that sodas cause cell damage. The problem, it seems, is a common preservative known as E211...aka 'sodium benzoate'. In combination with Vitamin C, also found in many soft drinks, it can turn into benzene which is a known carcinogen.

Professor Peter Piper of Sheffield University claims that sodium benzoate by itself can damage and inactivate vital parts of DNA in a cell's mitochondria. "The mitochondria consumes the oxygen to give you energy and if you damage it - as happens in a number of diseased states - then the cell starts to malfunction very seriously. And there is a whole array of diseases that are now being tied to damage to this DNA - Parkinson's and quite a lot of neuro-degenerative diseases, but above all the whole process of aging."

I want to make this clear. There is NOT a link to autism but I have this site to provide a place for people concerned about neurobiological disorders to see new articles on the subject.
It's got me off the sodas:)

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April is Autism Awareness Month!

Autism Speaks created a music video of the Five for Fighting song, "World", which features images of children with autism and their families. It is a truly moving video and was the work of Bill Shea.

The band is generously donating up to $0.49 to Autism
Speaks for *each time* the video is viewed - the funding goes toward research
studies to help find a cure. When you have a moment, please visit the link
below to watch the video and pass it along to your friends and family.
They are aiming for 10,000 hits, but hopefully we can help them to surpass
this goal.

http://www.whatkindofworlddoyouwant.com/videos/view/id/213154

Adam

What is Autism (Singapore)

This is a sweet, albeit somewhat dated film from the Autism Association of Singapore about some of the signs of autism and the need for early intervention.

The Really Big Lie ABout Autism

The 2007 Centers for Disease Control study puts the rate of Autism in school-age children in 1992 & 1994 at 1 in 150. The number rises to an astonishing 1 in 94 in New Jersey. The experts attribute the 'new' numbers to their shrewd detection techniques. So let's look at the numbers. In 2006, roughly twenty percent of the US population was between the ages of 1-14. I'm going to halve that number to be on the safe side and call that number 'school-age'. So 10% of 300 million is 30 million children. Let's divide that by 150. That gives us 200,000 children living with autism today. Assuming those numbers are somewhat consistent which we are assured they are let's do some more math. Let's go decade by decade from 1950. I'm simply going to take 10% of the US population, divide by 150 and list the numbers below.

1950 100,883
1960 119,548
1970 135,474
1980 151,030
1990 165,806
2000 187,614
_____
860,355

So we should see close to a million persons living with autism. 'The Really Big Lie About Autism' is an interesting article on this data and the arguments that a) the rate is rising and b) it is consistent. Here's a taste of both:

a) "Dr. Stephen Goodman, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore who has studied autism statistics for the past 30 years. "The explosive increase that has been claimed is almost certainly not true."

b) "The Concord Monitor in New Hampshire reported this week that the number of autistic students had tripled since 2001. School board president David Immen said that the increase in students with autism "is not a bubble passing through; it's a wave that's coming."

I know this post is a little dated but it's my maiden post:) I look forward to joining the discussion and continuing to help children with autism.

adam