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Just wanted to come in and say: "Love the coverage of the Francisco Hernadez story".
ReplyDeleteI first heard of it when an autistic woman from Ohio, studying in Scotland, posted it.
She also has a song for him.
Francisco's Song by Amanda Forest Vivian
Are there any other stories which have got you in the chest/heart like that, and would like to share with us?
Yes, We like to keep up to date with interesting stories. We heard from our local newspaper that autism might not be an Asperger Syndrome anymore. i am also very interested in the amount of autistic children being or abused or abandoned by their parents. I'll post back on that when I've found more information. I can't find a percentage just yet.
ReplyDeleteThere is a really good website on that.
ReplyDeleteMurder of Autistics by Joel Smith
Don't you mean it the other way around, Paula? That Asperger Syndrome might not be on the autistic spectrum (as according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) ... I actually remember a time before Asperger Syndrome was in the manual. Autistic children who could talk, for instance, were included in the 'atypical' category, which is now PDD-NOS.
(The International Classification of Diseases is different, and they had Asperger Syndrome in there first, under slightly different criteria).
The New York Times has a good article on this. (I do respect the Houston Chronicle as a newspaper of record).
The site which I gave you above was designed by Joel Smith, as early as 2002, when there was a film in which an autistic child was murdered within the first five minutes by a trouble teenager.
There are probably numbers as well, of other types of abuses. There will be many many abuses which have not yet been reported. It would be good to focus on one type of abuse, like starvation, and how to prevent it.
Abandoning children with autistic-like disorders has a long history. One of my culture figures is a wild teenager called Victor of Aveyron. In the 1790s in France he lived in a forest. Now a lot of people think he is on the spectrum. (He did not speak, and he responded to the sounds of nuts being cracked but not to a musical instrument, and his heat and cold tolerance was different from someone who had been in civilisation all his life).
Also read up about Itard. This is Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard, and he and his protege, Edouard Seguin, started special education in France. Then they passed the baton to Maria Montessori. (Perhaps you have a Montessori school near you).
Let's say there are about half a million autistic children in the US (ballpark figure here).
Dear Paula and Anusha:
ReplyDeleteI was wondering if you knew anything about the relationships between children with autism and animals. They can be pet animals or service animals.