Canada's REAL National Autism Strategy - Shawn Murphy's Bill C-304
There is currently a group receiving money from the Harper government, purportedly to develop a " National Autism Strategy " . It is an election year handout from a government which has consistently opposed a meaningful role for the federal government in ensuring that autistic children and adults in Canada receive the treatment and services they need to live meaningful, healthy lives. Parents in Canada have fought for many years with varying levels of success for government coverage of evidence based ABA treatment for autism disorders. In 2006 former Charlottetown MP Shawn Murphy articulated a REAL National Autis...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - August 29, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Anonymous Source Type: blogs
Canada's REAL National Autism Strategy - Shawn Murphy's Bill C-304
There is currently a group receiving money from the Harper government, purportedly to develop a "National Autism Strategy". It is an election year handout from a government which has consistently opposed a meaningful role for the federal government in ensuring that autistic children and adults in Canada receive the treatment and services they need to live meaningful, healthy lives. Parents in Canada have fought for many years with varying levels of success for government coverage of evidence based ABA treatment for autism disorders. In 2006 former Charlottetown MP Shawn Murphy articulated a REAL National Autism...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - August 28, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: H L Doherty Source Type: blogs
Autism Disorder AND Epilepsy (But NO SUDEP!!!) at 6:05 AM
I was awake at 5:30 this morning, had some breakfast, and was enjoying a mug (not a cup, a mug) of coffee when I noticed that the time was 6:05 am. Startled I jumped up to see if everything was OK with my son Conor. Conor suffers from severe autism disorder and epileptic seizures, including half a dozen grand mal or tonic clonic seizures, since last Christmas. One feature of Conor's autism disorder is that he gets up at precisely 6:01 a.m. every morning. He often wakes up before 6:01 but stays in bed until that time and then gets up. Until this morning I can not recall the last time he might have sl...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - August 22, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: H L Doherty Source Type: blogs
Surprise! A Meaningful Autism Disorder Study Provides Evidence of Autism's Harsh Realities
This study though should be helpful in bringing a much needed dose of autism realities to the public understanding of autism disorders and the harsh realities that accompany them.The health status of adults on the autism spectrumLisa A Croen1Ousseny Zerbo1Yinge Qian1Maria L Massolo1Steve Rich2Stephen Sidney1Clarissa Kripke31Kaiser Permanente Northern California —Oakland, USA2Kaiser Permanente Northern California —Santa Rosa, USA3University of California, San Francisco, USALisa A Croen, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California —Oakland, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA. Email: Lisa.A....
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - August 4, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Anonymous Source Type: blogs
Surprise! A Meaningful Autism Disorder Study Provides Evidence of Autism's Harsh Realities
This study though should be helpful in bringing a much needed dose of autism realities to the public understanding of autism disorders and the harsh realities that accompany them.The health status of adults on the autism spectrumLisa A Croen1Ousseny Zerbo1Yinge Qian1Maria L Massolo1Steve Rich2Stephen Sidney1Clarissa Kripke31Kaiser Permanente Northern California—Oakland, USA2Kaiser Permanente Northern California—Santa Rosa, USA3University of California, San Francisco, USALisa A Croen, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California—Oakland, 2000 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612, USA. Email: Lisa.A.Cr...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - August 3, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: H L Doherty Source Type: blogs
A Positive Adult Autism Meeting with Social Development Minister Cathy Rogers
Minister of Social Development Cathy RogersPhoto Source: NB Liberal Site July 14, 2015 Meeting with Social Development Minister Cathy Rogersat 551 King Street, Photo by Harold L DohertyOn July 14, together with autism advocate Cynthia Bartlett and Clinical Psychologist and Professor Emeritus (Psychology) Paul McDonnell I met with Social Development Minister Cathy Rogers and 3 of her advisers. The meeting had been requested by Minister Rogers when it became clear in the Legislature gallery that I, and presumably some others in the gallery, were unhappy with the government’s response to opposition MLA Ernie Stee...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - July 29, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: H L Doherty Source Type: blogs
6 Years Later New Brunswick STILL Hasn't Addressed Adult Autism Care
Years have passed, governments have come and gone, but still the elected members of the New Brunswick legislative assembly, despite international recognition for its parent advocacy driven early intervention and school autism services, have not seen fit to provide a systemic adult care autism system in New Brunswick.The following blog commentary is a re-post, word for word, of a commentary I posted on May 5, 2009: Autistic Adult Care Improvements Long Overdue in New Brunswick. Since then one group home has received some training for staff from UNB via the Department of Social development. Bey...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - July 12, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Anonymous Source Type: blogs
6 Years Later New Brunswick STILL Hasn't Addressed Adult Autism Care
Years have passed, governments have come and gone, but still the elected members of the New Brunswick legislative assembly, despite international recognition for its parent advocacy driven early intervention and school autism services, have not seen fit to provide a systemic adult care autism system in New Brunswick.The following blog commentary is a re-post, word for word, of a commentary I posted on May 5, 2009: Autistic Adult Care Improvements Long Overdue in New Brunswick. Since then one group home has received some training for staff from UNB via the Department of Social development. Be...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - July 11, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: H L Doherty Source Type: blogs
Dr. Glen Davies at Medicare for Autism Now! Rally June 27 2015
Dr. Glenn Davies at the Medicare for Autism Now! rally June 27 2015 discusses evidence in support of behavioural intervention in treating autism, the lack of autism coverage under Canadian Medicare compared to the US Medicaid state to state mandate and the example of Wisconsin which is far ahead of all Canadian jurisdictions in providing treatment for autism. (Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick)
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - June 30, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: H L Doherty Source Type: blogs
Conor After Another Seizure
. Conor has been on a good run for the previous 7-10 days and today was pretty much the same until 6:15 this evening when we heard a loud thump uupstairs. His mom ran upstairs and screamed for help when she saw him convulsing on the floor with thick fluids oozing out of his mouth. We had to keep him on his side with his head away from any corners or hard objects. This was Conor's 4th grand mal seizure since Christmas. Conor's convulsions did not appear to last too long compared to some previous seizures .. approximately 2 minutes. Stilll 2 minutes of your son in convulsions is enou...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - June 28, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: H L Doherty Source Type: blogs
Medicare for Autism NOW! Campaign Kick Off Today!
Vancouver, BC – Today, the Medicare for autism Now! Society (“MFAN”), a non-partisan, not-for-profit, all volunteer organization, announced the launch of its nation-wide One in 68 campaign. “We will be holding a Campaign Kick-off this Saturday, June 27th, at Douglas College, New Westminster, between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm,” said MFAN director and campaign manager, Dr. Sherri Brown, “It will outline the rationale for our initiative and lay-out our action and advocacy agenda leading to the federal election on October 19th, less than four months away.”The MFAN campaign takes its name from ...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - June 26, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: H L Doherty Source Type: blogs
Canada Needs A REAL National Autism Strategy: Medicare for Autism NOW!
A Medicare for Autism Now! Rally was organized by FEAT-BC and held in Halifax, Nova Scotia on May 26, 2007.Shawn Murphy, Jim Munson, Andy ScottFormer PEI MP Shawn Murhpy, New Brunswick Senator Jim Munson and the late Andy Scott a former Fredericton NB MP all advocated actively for a REAL National Autism Strategy with Shawn Murphy presenting an unsuccessful provvate member's Bill C-304, to include autism treatment in medicare coverage and then Fredericton MP Andy Scott working with Nova Scotia MP Peter Stoffer to intoduce a National Autism Strategy bill which was passed and put the issue on the nation...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - June 12, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: H L Doherty Source Type: blogs
Canada Needa a Real National Autism Strategy: Exhibit #1 Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is Exhibit #1 In the Case for a REAL National Autism StrategyCanada has long needed a REAL National Autism Strategy, one which includes coverage of autism in medicare to ensure that children with autism disorders received treatment for their autism disorders regardelss of which province their parents live in. One of the most glaring examples of the need for national autism medical coverage is in the province I once called Canada's Autism Wasteland province. Since that commentary on September 2, 2007 little progress appears to have been made judging by the Global story by Amber Roc...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - June 8, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: H L Doherty Source Type: blogs
U of Washington news: Early Start Denver Model Intervention Improves Long-term Outcomes for Children with Autism
Early intervention improves long-term outcomes for children with autism Early intervention for toddlers with autism spectrum disorder helps improve their intellectual ability and reduces autism symptoms years after originally getting treatment, a new study shows. The study is the first in more than 20 years to look at long-term outcomes after early intensive autism intervention. The therapy began when children were 18 to 30 months of age and involved therapists and parents working with the toddlers in their homes for more than 15 hours each week for two years. The study will appear in the Jul...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - June 8, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: H L Doherty Source Type: blogs
Autism, Seizures, Meltdown, Recovery:What a Difference a Day Makes
A day can make a big difference in my son's world of severe autism disorder, intellectual disability and epileptic seizures. Yesterday as I pulled up to his school to pick him up at the end of the day I could hear his voice inside the school and I knew things were not going well. He had been undergoing a very serious meltdown and I won't go into all the details. Today though, 24 hours later I pulled up to the same location and before I turned the corner I could see him at the basketball net. I stopped pulled my camera out and completed the turn. Conor was having fun outdoors, shooting the basketball and he was happy. ...
Source: Facing Autism in New Brunswick - June 4, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: H L Doherty Source Type: blogs
