If I was the getaway driver, and my partners-in-crime went into the bank and someone got killed in the process, I AM CULPABLE. I mean, I knew we were there to rob a bank. I knew my partners had guns. I knew there was a risk that someone would get hurt. I knew it! I’m …
Category: ChildWise Blog
Nov 20
STEM may help teens with autism clear hurdle
If college-bound youth with autism gravitate toward STEM majors, then this has the potential to be a silver lining story for a group where gloomy predictions about outcomes in adulthood are more the norm.” says study author Paul Shattuck. WASHINGTON U. – ST. LOUIS (US) —Young people with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) gravitate toward …
Nov 05
Teen with autism uses it to accomplish great things!
By guest author Alexis Wineman Miss Montana 2012 One would think that after such a long time to finally have a real diagnosis of what was wrong with me I would be relieved, but at the age 11 all I really knew was that this “thing” I had was ruining my life and I may …
Aug 30
Reaching for the stars, feet on the ground
By Ellen Notbohm Author, Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew When I take the podium to keynote the ChildWise Autism and Asperger’s Conference on September 28, I’ll marvel as I always do at the setting, a gathering of parents and teachers of children with autism, the likes of which didn’t exist as …
Aug 03
The Dark Knight Rampage
by Elizabeth Kohlstaedt, Ph.D. It is impossible to know what caused the young, intelligent man, to hoard weapons, die his hair red and storm into a movie theater killing others. By accounts, his back ground was upper middle class with connected parents and fine schooling and high intellect. We hear that he was a bit …
