When Will ABC Get Asperger's Right? One of the measures of inclusion of a specific culture is the quality of media portrayals of members that culture. The transition from merely stereotypical, to more complex, multi-dimensional characters is all important. Despite multiple attempts, ABC, much lauded in recent years for its culturally diverse casting and development ideas, has not yet accomplished this in its portrayals of charac
Joe and The Mega-Sized Smoothie: Language and Asperger's Recently, I read fellow PT Blogger Edouard Machery's posting, Intentional Action and Asperger's Syndrome. In it, he delineates the results of a recent study he conducted with Tiziana Zalla designed to measure differences in how people with Asperger's perceive intentionality. While I find the study's results interesting, I believe the differences indicated have less to do with mindreading abilitie
The Little Things: Time Is(n't) On My Side Standing, in my best party dress, my father at my side, a prettily wrapped present in hand, I waited for the door to open. After what seemed like an eternity, the door was opened by a tall, imposing man - who immediately looked perplexed. "Hello?" - he said, rather uncertainly. My father greeted him, in the normal fashion...then I heard the words, "The birthday party? Oh, that's to
Hyperbaric treatment for children with autism: First controlled clinical trials. This week Biomed central published a double-blind placebo study of the effectiveness of hyperbaric treatment for autism. The study was published in Biomed, which is an open access journal, so readers are invited to read the entire study here. In sum, the authors randomly assigned 62 children (52 boys, 10 girls) between the ages of 2 to 7 to either a hyperbaric treatment condition or a control...
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