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- CHANNELING PASSIONS: Thoughts on ADHD - by Submitted on Jan 25, 2019 from Stella WaterhouseHistory is filled with creative individuals who “thought outside the box.” Often ridiculed, labeled as troublemakers, or initially discounted as unintelligent, many went on to make huge contributions to society. And yet today many of those people would probably be said to have Attention Deficit ...
Views: 968 - ***FACES FROM THE PAST - by Submitted on Jan 15, 2015 from Stella WaterhouseJoseph and Rose Kennedy’s third child and first daughter was born in Bostonin 1918, just two months before the end of World War I, while an epidemic of Spanish flu was raging. Inundated with flu patients, the attending doctor, Dr Good, arrived late and, although it was not a difficult birth, the ...
Views: 1725(1 vote) - ***WHAT NEXT? AFTER WINTERBOURNE - by Submitted on Dec 02, 2014 from Stella Waterhouse. . . all such institutions are unnatural, undesirable and very liable to abuse. We should have as few of them as possible…’ Samuel Gridley Howe - American physician and philanthropist For those of you not based in the UK I should just explain the meaning of this title. It arose from ...
Views: 1702 - ***The Strange Case Of Kasper Hauser - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2014 from Stella WaterhouseA different tale this time: of mystery, child abuse, deprivation, political intrigue and murder all rolled into one. A tale of a young man who suddenly appeared in Nuremberg in 1828; walking painfully and clumsily - as if uncertain how to walk. The young man, found to be one Kasper Hauser, ...
Views: 2311 - ***Disappointing! Simplistic! Misleading? - by Submitted on Oct 25, 2014 from Stella WaterhouseMy last article on DSM-5 looked at the loss of one important diagnosis - that of Disintegrative Disorder. And yet reviewing the situation there is another aspect of major concern. And that, as you may have guessed, concerns the sensory differences. Why so? Let me explain. John Langdon ...
Views: 2036 - *** Data Sadly Missed: Childhood Disintegrative Disorder - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2017 from Stella WaterhouseMy last article looked at the effects of the changes in the DSM one year on, focusing on the deletion of Asperger's syndrome but, of course, there was also another omission that attracted little attention; possibly because Asperger's syndrome took precedence. And yet that omission too is of ...
Views: 1869 - ***Diagnosis Simplified - or Muddled? Diagnosis - Formerly Known as Asperger's Syndrome . . . - by Submitted on Aug 15, 2014 from Stella WaterhouseIt's a funny old world. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) produced by the American Psychiatric Association (APS) is one of two main international sets of diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorders: the other being the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), ...
Views: 1864 - AUTISM AWARENESS Part Two: Shadows On The Soul - by Submitted on Jul 18, 2014 from Stella WaterhouseThe last article assessed the impact of referring to ASD as a learning 'difference' or even a 'personality trait.' As I said then, I believe that both terms can potentially cause problems. That is particularly true in relation to abuse, making it far too easy for abusers to justify ...
Views: 1622 - ***AUTISM AWARENESS Part One: What's In A Name? - by Submitted on Jun 27, 2014 from Stella WaterhouseToday people generally try to be politically correct but, while a good thing in theory that can have some drawbacks, especially in relation to Autistic Spectrum Disorders as you will see. Thus nowadays it people commonly refer to ASD as a learning 'difference' or even a 'personality trait' ...
Views: 1666 - ***THE AUTISM WARS Part Four: Pros and Cons - by Submitted on May 30, 2014 from Stella WaterhouseTime now to turn our attention to the USA where the arguments surround one particular vaccine additive - thimerosal - rather than the vaccines themselves. This mercury based product has been used as a preservative in many vaccines since the 1930s - before being removed from many of them ...
Views: 1746(1 vote) - ***THE AUTISM WARS: Part Three: Jabbed - by Submitted on May 09, 2014 from Stella WaterhouseThere are two different aspects to this so I'll begin with the ongoing saga of the MMR a triple vaccination against measles, mumps and rubella. In the past it had been postulated that the triple jab and in particular the measles part, could cause encephalitis, the speculation being ...
Views: 1420 - TAKING THE MYTH AND MYSTERY OUT OF THE HISTORY - Part Three: ASD from the late 19th Century - by Submitted on Apr 08, 2014 from Stella WaterhouseOne of Dr Down's contemporaries was Dr Isaac Kerlin, then considered a leader in the field of 'mental retardation'. He was the superintendent of the Pennsylvania Institute for Feeble-Minded Children in the US for many years: a school whose pupils included those with intellectual and ...
Views: 1504 - ***THE AUTISM WARS - Part Two: Battlefronts - by Submitted on Mar 28, 2014 from Stella WaterhouseAnother battle in the autism wars began with the apparent increase in ASD in the late 1980s, which some people believed - as some still do - was really the beginning of an epidemic. And that is where we find the first battle: a hotly debated argument as to whether the increase is/was real ...
Views: 1405 - THE AUTISM WARS Part One: War Of The Worlds - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2014 from Stella WaterhouseRegrettably the past two decades have seen the rise of the autism wars. One such battlefront is linked to the idea that autism is triggered by some 'external force': an idea that has led many parents to buy into the idea that 'curing' autism would return to the child to 'normal' and one ...
Views: 1640 - ***TAKING THE MYTH AND MYSTERY OUT OF THE HISTORY: Part Two: ASD in the 19th Century - by Submitted on Mar 07, 2014 from Stella WaterhouseThe 19th century too seems to have had its fair share of children who might fit the criteria for ASD today: children who, in keeping with those times, and depending on the severity of their problems were often classified as fools, idiots or imbeciles. As ever some survived in the ...
Views: 1512 - ***EXPLORING THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2014 from Stella WaterhouseI was always told that if you want to learn something you should ‘ask an expert’ and so when I set out to write a short booklet on anxiety in the late 1980s, I decided to begin my research by reading books and articles by or about people with ASD themselves. It was then I ...
Views: 1813 - ***TAKING THE MYTH AND MYSTERY OUT OF THE HISTORY: Part One: A Brief History of Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) - by Submitted on Feb 24, 2014 from Stella WaterhouseMany myths and fallacies are attached to ASD but perhaps one of the strangest is the idea that it only actually began in the 1940s, when Leo Kanner in the US and Hans Asperger in Austria both wrote papers on the subject; describing similar but apparently different symptoms which gave rise to ...
Views: 1622 - Whoops! - Understanding Dyspraxia - by Submitted on Jan 16, 2008 from Stella WaterhouseDyspraxia refers to children who have movement difficulties and means the poor performance of movement. The word is taken from the Greek dys - bad and ‘praxis’ - the learned ability to plan, organize and carry out sequences of coordinated movements in order to achieve an objective. In ...
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