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By Sean Conrad, Guest Blogger
Rock radio legend Gene “Pappy” Chenault died on Feb. 23 at the age of 90. Gene, along with programmer Bill Drake, fathered 60’s & 70’s Top 40 Radio as we know it today. In 1962, when Gene was being beaten by the competition at KYNO Radio in Fresno, he made contact [...]

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The holidays can be very difficult for children with disabilities.  Changes in their routine, both at home and at school and unexpected family and friends coming for visits can be the cause of stress and anxiety.  Many children may not cope well in these chaotic social situations that can occur around [...]

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So, getting an official diagnosis of autism hasn’t made everything as different as I thought it might. I guess I was a little surprised that my son was diagnosed as autistic rather than having Asperger’s syndrome, but since there is a list of criteria that gets checked off, if you have enough checkmarks under [...]

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As so many of you already know, autism is a complex condition, and the search for the cause of autism has, in some ways, been equally complex. Everyone who’s turned on the TV or read a newspaper is probably aware of the long raging debate over the MMR vaccine, thimerosol and autism (something I won’t [...]

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I recently read this article entitled The Vaccine-Autism Court Document Every American Should Read from The Huffington Post and it stopped me dead in my tracks. I decided to blog for Autism in April for many reasons. Reasons that are personal and familiar. But also, because I believe that Autism touches [...]

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I was so tired, but the physical exhaustion was nothing compared to the emotional exhaustion. We’d been up since 5:00 a.m., driving down to LA for a three-hour meeting with a specialist at UCLA Neurologic Center who had tested my son a few weeks before. My son’s father had insisted on having the doctors at [...]

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My mum misses me, my family dissess me.
Society dehumanises me. Despises me. Criticize me.
They are fossilized. I do not apologise.
I am ridiculed, violated, bullied. Ignored.
I am stared at, laughed at spat at.
What have I done to you? I mind my own business.
I do not listen. I do not see or give you the third degree.
I [...]

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At a certain point, you switch from thinking, “Oh, he’ll just do it when he feels like it” to “Shouldn’t he be doing this by now?” to “What is wrong?”
And generally speaking, pediatricians aren’t very helpful. Every kid is different, they say; everyone learns/grows at his or her own rate.
Meanwhile, my almost 5-year-old looks like [...]