As the date approaches for K’s visit to Children’s Hospital for a second opinion on his toe walking I have been doing a bit more research and reading.  I recently found these 2 articles out of Germany that look interesting.  I have also added them to the documents section with all our other information.

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John Ratey's book relating behaviours to exercise

I caught a small part of this short documentary on CBC lastnight which shows good outcomes in students with ADHD/ADD and other behavioural issues in a school setting and the use of daily physical excercise.  Continue reading →

I have just put most of the finishing touches on a new website dedicated to … you guessed it- Autism. It aggregates information from around the web on autism and related stories and posts them in 0ne of 3 categories. I have been gathering stories that are found in the national media, of both the US and Canada predominantly, research both popular publications and scientific journals, and lastly autism related blogs. Continue reading →

I recently uploaded more documents to our repository and was very surprised to see that there is currently 245 documents stored there! It consists of 241 documents that range from media articles to research papers on various topics in autism. There are also 4 e-books that I have there as well in their own directory.

I would not begin to pretend that I have read all of them, but I have read a fair number of them and I do hope to continue to read more as I think that continuing to be informed is incredibly important. I hope the naming convention is fairly self explanatory, but if you can’t find something you are looking for I can search a duplicate cache of documents that I have indexed and share the results. We are very willing to help people find the information they may be looking for, assuming that it is a subject that we have some documentation on, so please do not hesitate to use the contact us link on our mainpage.

Comments, as always, are welcome.

I have stumbled across numerous full text books online as I have been searching for some ASD related topic. I hope to use this post to track those links and that particular source of ASD information.

Funny wiring. The author describes the book as follows:

My personal experience in living and working with a child with autism (my daughter) from diagnosis through adolescence up to adulthood. The book presents and delves into all aspects of the syndrome, focusing on the strategies and methodologies I found helpful in coping with and addressing the language, learning and behavioral challenges that children with autism present to parents and teachers. I also discuss at length what is going on neurologically in the autistic brain…

It is worth noting that google can be a great resource for books. They index a large number of books and provide large portions of the text for reading online. Some searches I found useful besides just searching for autism are:

Works by Simon Baron-Cohen