UK Measles Outbreak Blamed on Andrew Wakefield Autism Vaccination Scare

May 20, 2013

vaccineA measles outbreak in the UK that already has nearly 1,200 patient this year and over 2,000 last year is being blamed on a now discredited paper published by Dr. Andrew Wakefield claiming that the MMR vaccines was the cause of Autism.  The claim Wakefield made caused over 1 million children in the UK not to vaccinate their children.   [click to continue…]

Microchipping Wandering Kids with GPS Tracker

May 14, 2013

Screen Shot 2013-05-14 at 1.28.02 PMI saw a conversation thread online earlier today of a parent asking if there is a product that a doctor can implant a GPS tracking microchip into their child  who has a tendancy to wander.   [click to continue…]

Man with FASD Fired at 14 Year Job over Mistake

May 13, 2013

Ian Rey, a 14 year old employee of Sprouts Farmer’s Market with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder and once employee of the month at Sprouts was fired over a simple mistake.  

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Ipswich, Australia Boy With Autism Victim of Bombing

May 13, 2013

Michael Boggan, 15 of Ipswich Australia lost both of his hands after his friends handed him a golf ball that had been made into a bomb, and it exploded.  ”I had no idea it was a bomb. It just blew up in my face”, Michael said.  

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Autism, Amtrak and Chicago

May 8, 2013

Yesterday I took my first Amtrak Journey in many years to Chicago’s Union Station for the day and then returned later that evening to my hometown via Amtrak as well.  As an Autistic adult I thought I would share my experience on Amtrak.  

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States Ranked for Services to Intellectually and Develomentally Disabled

May 2, 2013

United Cerbal Palsy has released its annual inclusion report ranking states on services to the developmentally and intellecutually disabled as well as providing other interesting and useful statistics.  The data provides some interesting insight as the top ten performing states when it comes to services for the intellectually and developmentally disabled are geographically focused in [...]

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Federal Government Issues New Service Dog Guidelines for Housing

May 1, 2013

The Federal Governmnet has issued new service dog Guidelines as of April 25th 2013 that further spell out the proper interpetation of service animals when it comes to housing issues.  

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Why I Don’t Support Special Olympics

April 29, 2013

Many people support Special Olympics, an organization that provides sporting events for people with intellectual disabilities.  I don’t support them and actually think of them as a problem.  

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Social Security Payees Not Paying Bills

April 25, 2013

I’ve heard it several times now, family members acting as someone’s representive payee for social security benefits and not doing what they should do, or acting in a threatening and bullying manner to manipulate someone into doing what they want to release funds.  

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Why I Don’t Support ADAPT

April 24, 2013

A disability advocate asked me what I thought about ADAPT’s actions Monday blocking the east gate of the White House and while I view it as a non-violent civil disobience protest I think crossing police lines and threatening the security of the White House is extreme, in fact way to far extreme.  

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