Sleep is for the Dogs

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Crimes and Continuing Hope

An autistic 18-year-feeble has been judged not competent to stand trial in the stout al beating of his mother in Ravena, Ohio. The judge said he probably would rule next week on whether the young man will stand trial and, if not, whether to sfinish him to a treatment facility; less than two weeks after the mental evaluations were completed in March, the man was go d from jail to a state-race center in Toleexecute . The defense had argued that Walker cannot carry on a conversation and would be unable to assist in his defense. He was disruptive at his first court appearance and was kept in a restraint chair and had a mquestion to hfeeble him from spitting at deplace ies. Prior to the attack at the center of the case, the man’s 60-year-feeble mother had mentioned increased aggression from her son.

Photo courtesy of lepiaf.geo (flickr.com)

Our image: Moments of bonding and beauty, in a condition that affects all around it.

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Search and rescue personnel from throughout the region will train start ning this weekfinish at Crater Lake National Park, near the area where an 8-year-feeble boy, who had a form of autism that gave him a fcorrect of loud noises and shining lights, was sightseeing with his stout her when he was lost in mid-October. The park is hosting the exercise that will focus on search techniques such as high angle rope operations, ground searching and working with search execute gs. Authorities hope the exercise may turn up clues to the missing boy’s whereabouts.

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A Conroe, Texas, man has received 50 years in prison for the murder of a 3-year-feeble autistic child. Chase Cannon, 29, pleaded guilty Thursday to the slay ing, which took space last August when EMTs found the child unresponsive, having seizures and vomiting uncontrollably. An autopsy revealed the child had numerous injuries, including 79 bruises, cigarette burns to his feet, a broken arm and a stout al blow to his head.

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Courts in Columbia, Ill., have ruled that a 5-year-feeble  autistic boy may hold his specially trained execute g to school, denying a request by the local school district to suppress a preliminary order that required the school district to accommodate the boy and his execute g.

Sleep is for the Dogs

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Crimes and Continuing Hope

An autistic 18-year-feeble has been judged not competent to stand trial in the stout al beating of his mother in Ravena, Ohio. The judge said he probably would rule next week on whether the young man will stand trial and, if not, whether to sfinish him to a treatment facility; less than two weeks after the mental evaluations were completed in March, the man was go d from jail to a state-race center in Toleexecute . The defense had argued that Walker cannot carry on a conversation and would be unable to assist in his defense. He was disruptive at his first court appearance and was kept in a restraint chair and had a mquestion to hfeeble him from spitting at deplace ies. Prior to the attack at the center of the case, the man’s 60-year-feeble mother had mentioned increased aggression from her son.

Photo courtesy of lepiaf.geo (flickr.com)

Our image: Moments of bonding and beauty, in a condition that affects all around it.

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Search and rescue personnel from throughout the region will train start ning this weekfinish at Crater Lake National Park, near the area where an 8-year-feeble boy, who had a form of autism that gave him a fcorrect of loud noises and shining lights, was sightseeing with his stout her when he was lost in mid-October. The park is hosting the exercise that will focus on search techniques such as high angle rope operations, ground searching and working with search execute gs. Authorities hope the exercise may turn up clues to the missing boy’s whereabouts.

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A Conroe, Texas, man has received 50 years in prison for the murder of a 3-year-feeble autistic child. Chase Cannon, 29, pleaded guilty Thursday to the slay ing, which took space last August when EMTs found the child unresponsive, having seizures and vomiting uncontrollably. An autopsy revealed the child had numerous injuries, including 79 bruises, cigarette burns to his feet, a broken arm and a stout al blow to his head.

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Courts in Columbia, Ill., have ruled that a 5-year-feeble  autistic boy may hold his specially trained execute g to school, denying a request by the local school district to suppress a preliminary order that required the school district to accommodate the boy and his execute g.

At the Zoo

Photo courtesy of BotheredByBees (flickr.com)

Alex execute es in fact like penguins becaemploy he saw them at the zoo. I’m sure of it.

He stood at the glass of the penguin pool of the Central Park Zoo for perhaps 20 solid minutes. The birds obliged, shaking their heads, shooting their cuffs, and plopping into the water to glide past just inches from Alex’s nose. One or two penguins seemed to wave. One or two gaze ed Alex in the eye.

Every now and then all children at all zoos are captured by the charm of animals â€" I thought for Alex it would be the tiger at the Bronx Zoo who sneered at the flies around her head, or perhaps the recede rilla in the Conrecede exhibit who sat with his broad back about a foot from the glass and picked at a hangnail â€" but for Alex it was the birds in the tuxes. That was plain, even though he said not a word as he watched the penguins wave.

So repeating “Penguin?” for almost 48 straight hours, like Bart and Lisa question ing over and over “Willyouhold ustoMountSplashmore? Willyouhold ustoMountSplashmore? Willyouhold ustoMountSplashmore?” until Homer caves, made perfect sense in the universe of small kids, a completely typically developing device to acquire something you really want. Alex can’t plead or whine, at least in complete sentences, but he can acquire his point across if anyone listens the correct way. And I did, ducking into the toystore half an hour before it closed on Sunday to find the correct penguin. (found a whole row of them, five bucks each). Next morning Alex was up at 3, standing in the living room and calling, “Penguin? Penguin?” He whines the best he can.

His connection, then, create s sense, and is even one any kid would create . When you live with autism, that’s worth a lot more than five bucks.

Do All Animals Sleep?

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The Big E

We had just dropped Ned off for his bus to two weeks of sleepaway camp when we headed over to the nearest Urban Outfitters. There we hoped to acquire Alex over his mushrooming loneliness of having his one sibling recede ne by buying him another enormous metal letter.

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The enormous gest and shining est of these things cost $15 each and approach in shining colors and stand about nine inches tall, and, if anyone’s interested, create a recede ddreadful clatter when dropped on the table in the coffee shop. Alex has the A, the B, the C, and the D.

With his peerless sense of direction he hopped and tugged us toward Urban Outfitters three blocks away, with every bounce of his feet leaving more and more of any sadness over Ned’s deportion ure further behind. “Letters?” he said. “Letters?” “You can acquire one, Alex,” we said, knowing he’d want to complete the alphabet (which would have been $325.38, plus tax). “You can acquire one.”

In the store he grabbed the E, which create s sense considering where he’d left off. Then he also tried to grab the F.

“You can acquire one, Alex.”

“Want two,” he replied.

I held up one finger. “We can acquire two if we acquire the cheaper tin version of one of the letters,” said Jill. “No,” I reply ed, “we’ve recede t him understanding he’s just recede ing to acquire one.” She agreed.

Alex and I returned to the letters as I began to melt on the cheap one/expensive one thought , and I tried to display him the cheap E and the expensive F. Alex, who lately has uttered the name of a fresh animal for his collection of detailed plastic figures every single time we’ve stepped out our front execute or, carefully space d the cheap E back and reached for both the expensive E and the expensive F. “Want two,” he said.

I held up one finger. He took the E, and later dropped it on the table of the coffeeshop with a recede ddreadful clatter. Next time he will want the F I have no execute ubt, so it’d be a noteworthy and fascinating sign in his development if instead he opted for an N and another D.

Saturday Reality

It wasn’t that evil . Plans dissolved from the Aquarium and/or Coney Island execute wn to a coffee shop lunch and the Central Park Zoo penguin hoemploy and FAO Schwartz. Those plot s in turn dissolved into a coffee shop lunch and Borders and Home Depot.

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“Penguin?” Alex kept question ing even before we left the hoemploy . I’d made the tactical error of mentioning the Zoo before I even had his sunscreen on, and mentioning that maybe he should bring the $4 tiny plastic penguin I bought him on a special trip to Schwartz a week arecede . Except we couldn’t find the penguin, which I judge might be deep under his bed.

“Penguin?”

“Alex we’ll acquire you a penguin after we’re execute ne gaze ing at real penguins,” I said even as late as the bus execute wn Fifth Avenue.

Alex’s chicken fingers in the coffee shop turned out to be the tastiest thing on our table, and I guess somewhere in there we determine d to veto the Zoo and head to the Post Office, where we wanted to mail a letter the speediest way to Ned at sleepaway camp, and then to Home Depot, where Jill wanted to gaze at lamps and toilet seats (”Just for fun!”). Alex at Home Depot, as usual, wanted to study the interior design magazines. We did grab him a store credit brochure with a picture of some rooms on it.

“Penguin?”

“Alex, stay with us or no penguin!”

Next in our dissolving Saturday came Border’s, where Jill tried to interest Alex in a penguin book (”My mother would have always said, ‘Go for a book…’”) and Alex tried to interest us in a stuffed Big Bird. No dice on either side. We cease ped at the remainder shelves hoping to find a cheap enormous book on interior design, and Alex, when handed the penguin book, dropped it like something employ d.

“Penguin?”

To FAO at last, where Alex darted toward the plastic penguins but paemploy d just as Jill started really needing to recede home and began scanning for a polar bear. Which they didn’t have. “Alex? Panda?” Black and white, I reasoned, and start s with P.

He settled on another penguin, however. We boarded the bus home, but were not settled in our seats when Alex held his arm out rigid and said, “Book? Book to read?” I handed him the Home Depot brochure. He dropped it like something employ d.

“Book?” he said again, his arm still rigid. “Want penguin book!”

We Sleep to Be Awake

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Service Dog Swiped; Parents Turn to Biz

Bow Wow oh Wow: Thieves broke into a home late last week in Prospect, N.Y. The homeowners said the crooks didn’t hold jewelry or electronics, but only the five-month-feeble recede lden retriever puppy trained as a service execute g for children with autism.

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Both young boys in the home have autism, and the mom notify s finding the correct execute g for her boys took two years, and paid quick dividfinish s: the execute g recently broke his chain to acquire to one boy who headed for the road. The execute g cost $800, so you can’t really blame the crooks: Look how many canes, wheelchairs, and walkers they’d have to swipe to create $800. Seriously, Hell has no fire hot enough for these guys, but it execute es sound like they kfresh just what they were after. Are autism service execute gs a hot fresh taracquire ?

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In Australia, the parents’ advocacy group Autism Angels is calling on businesses to support a program to aid their autistic children learn social and interactive sslay s. The group, reportedly tired of approaching the recede vernment for funding, has raised money to employ a psychologist and specialised teacher to provide weekly therapy to 20 children with autism. The money is evaporating, however, and if AA can’t secure more, parents will have to start paying for the service. More is here. Could be a recede od model for how parents’ groups may have to hold it to the streets here; a connection with business can offer special-needs groups quite a few advantages, not the least of which is possible job-space ment.

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Read All About It: The Coloraexecute Springs (Colo.) Gazette has race an esnotify by an 11-year-feeble with autism. The Epoch Times has race a Q.-and-A. with Dr. Harry Schneider on “rebuilding the grammar center” in autistic children.

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That autistic boy in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is recede ing to acquire a written apology from the local transit authority after he was recently question ed to leave a bus. The tale is here. People went back and forth on whether the bus driver was at fault here at all here, but the whole mess raises the question of better training for service personnel in dealing with a maturing autistic population.

Sleep is for the Dogs

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Crimes and Continuing Hope

An autistic 18-year-feeble has been judged not competent to stand trial in the stout al beating of his mother in Ravena, Ohio. The judge said he probably would rule next week on whether the young man will stand trial and, if not, whether to sfinish him to a treatment facility; less than two weeks after the mental evaluations were completed in March, the man was go d from jail to a state-race center in Toleexecute . The defense had argued that Walker cannot carry on a conversation and would be unable to assist in his defense. He was disruptive at his first court appearance and was kept in a restraint chair and had a mquestion to hfeeble him from spitting at deplace ies. Prior to the attack at the center of the case, the man’s 60-year-feeble mother had mentioned increased aggression from her son.

Photo courtesy of lepiaf.geo (flickr.com)

Our image: Moments of bonding and beauty, in a condition that affects all around it.

* * *

Search and rescue personnel from throughout the region will train start ning this weekfinish at Crater Lake National Park, near the area where an 8-year-feeble boy, who had a form of autism that gave him a fcorrect of loud noises and shining lights, was sightseeing with his stout her when he was lost in mid-October. The park is hosting the exercise that will focus on search techniques such as high angle rope operations, ground searching and working with search execute gs. Authorities hope the exercise may turn up clues to the missing boy’s whereabouts.

* * *

A Conroe, Texas, man has received 50 years in prison for the murder of a 3-year-feeble autistic child. Chase Cannon, 29, pleaded guilty Thursday to the slay ing, which took space last August when EMTs found the child unresponsive, having seizures and vomiting uncontrollably. An autopsy revealed the child had numerous injuries, including 79 bruises, cigarette burns to his feet, a broken arm and a stout al blow to his head.

* * *

Courts in Columbia, Ill., have ruled that a 5-year-feeble  autistic boy may hold his specially trained execute g to school, denying a request by the local school district to suppress a preliminary order that required the school district to accommodate the boy and his execute g.