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 attended an information session regarding a nutraceutical product and some of the research behind it and its benefits. I must say that initially I was a bit wary. It had the air of a multi-level marketing “presentation” but I was pleasantly surprised. The presenter gave a relatively strong scientific presentation about the benefits of Immunocal and the research behind it. I would have liked to have had more research and more of the scientific details but I’m fairly certain that I was in the minority.

I was prepared for the usual bias due to receiving the information from the company and it’s paid researchers, but was pleasantly surprised by a comment from one of the physicians that was speaking. Continue reading →

I have not been writing much lately, but have been spending a fair bit of time working on the new site and its internals. That, in conjunction with trying to develop some new ideas to access and share additional information hasn’t left me much time to actually add to the content of our site. I’m hoping that will change in the near future. Continue reading →

I haven’t written much lately. That should in no way be mistaken for a lack of “goings on”, but I have been working on some other projects, one of them being this new site and our move to this new hosted service. I hope to be updating some of our posts, especially the series on K’s toe walking as this is far and away the most popular set of posts on our blog. Those posts popularity and some of the comments have been an impetus for another project I’m hoping to launch soon devoted entirely to the subject of toe-walking, so stay tuned! Continue reading →

I thought I would update our experiences with using the AFO’s for K’s toe-walking, not only for us but for those that have been viewing this series of posts which has become some of the most viewed on our blog.

We have been having some difficulty of late getting K to wear his AFO’s. We did put them on him a couple of times during the night when he was asleep, but this resulted in him waking after having them on for a couple of hours and being quite upset until we removed them. This may be partly why he doesn’t want to wear them now, we have, unfortunately, linked them to negative circumstances and he therefore refuses to put them on. Continue reading →