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April is Autism Awareness Month. Step 2. Choose Your Impact Point

By Linda | April 10, 2013

People with developmental delays are increasing in number.  Our societal response to integrating these people with dignity and compassion is critical to the welfare of all of us.  But a society doesn’t respond.  The individuals in a society respond.  And that is how we move the needle so that change is effected.  Everyone should have [...]

Posted in Adventures in Advocacy, Worthy Causes | Also tagged advocacy, developmental disabilities, political action | 1 Comment

April is Autism Awareness Month. Step 1. End Social Isolation, Talk with a Parent of an Autistic Child

By Linda | April 8, 2013

When I started practice 30 years ago, autism was not a problem I saw.  No, it wasn’t that I didn’t recognize a child with autism, it was just very rare.  And now a week doesn’t go by when I don’t treat or sadly “recognize and refer for diagnosis” a new child with autism.  As a [...]

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Special Needs Children: The Coming Tsunami No One Will Talk About

By Linda | August 15, 2012

We are facing a crisis that no one in the political arena will talk about.  The fate of the children who are not “typical.”  Not a day goes by that even out of my professional environment, I am not confronted with the devastation of a family who has a child with physical, emotional or developmental [...]

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The Hall of Shame: Autism is Not Caused by Vaccinations!

By Linda | February 4, 2010

British Medical Journal, Lancet—Welcome to the Hall of Shame!
The foundation of medical knowledge is based on publications which are “peer-reviewed.” This is supposed to mean that several other experts in the field have read the scientific paper and then judged the information to be worthy of dissemination in a medical journal, allegedly for the [...]

Posted in Anger Management | Also tagged vaccinations | 5 Comments
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