I just happened to notice that the number of recalled items in Canada and the US has reached 200, so I thought it was worth mentioning that parents and educators may need to recheck the list of products affected. I just looked through it again and… Read more
Further exploration of the death of an autistic boy who had been wrapped in a weighted blanket has yielded much food for thought: The school staff apparently used the blanket to restrain little Gabriele Poirier as a punishment for being too… Read more
From the CTV evening news: Report into child’s death A coroner has ruled that a school south of Montreal acted improperly when it wrapped an autistic boy in a heavy blanket, leading to the child’s death. Gabriel Poirier, 9, suffocated at a… Read more
Dojogirl has been bugging us to buy her a cell phone, for going on two years now. Pretty much every adult I know has one of these devices, and a good number of the teens now have one as well. Cell phones have gone from being an expensive item used… Read more
If your introduction to autism came from Dustin Hoffman’s groundbreaking performance in the 1988 film Rainman, you’ll catch the play on words. This young man has autism, and he runs to raise money to help raise awareness and make the world a better… Read more
