Evidence-Based Pediatric Special Needs Medicine

Evidence-Based Pediatric Special Needs Medicine

At an autism fundraiser lately, I took the opportunity to speak with one of the leaders in our local treatment community. I felt that his understanding of complementary and alternative protocols was limited at best, and looked upon with suspicion and even derision at...
High vs. Low Functioning Autism

High vs. Low Functioning Autism

After a thorough history and physical examination, if there is an autism diagnosis, parents frequently ask the question, “So, do you think that my child is high or low functioning? How much autism does my child have?” They are especially thinking,...
Helping Pediatricians Understand Autism

Helping Pediatricians Understand Autism

I publish these essays for 4 principle reasons. 1. To learn. This is the main purpose. In order to provide educated answers and advice, it is necessary to delve into all of the science surrounding this epidemic. Basically, the blog is homework, and this venue is often...
Reading, Texting, and Arithmetic for Special Needs Children

Reading, Texting, and Arithmetic for Special Needs Children

While on summer vacation as a child in the middle of the last century, I would pass booths along the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, NJ, where hucksters would proclaim their ability to accurately evaluate any personality by examining handwriting. Sloppy or tidy text,...
Americans with Autism Act

Americans with Autism Act

Our local Board of Education was sued in Federal Court this week for not providing proven services to children affected with autism here in Florida. The Sun-Sentinel declared, “The Broward County School District is once again under attack for its handling of...
Marking Improvement in Your Toddler’s Autism

Marking Improvement in Your Toddler’s Autism

In typically-developing children, the second year of life ushers in socialization and mobility. Eye contact becomes more sustained. Babbling precedes talking. Motor skills lead to physical independence. That gives rise to play, and achieving the skills that will be...
Antibiotics and Autism, too

Antibiotics and Autism, too

One of my most re-tweeted essays is The Law, Antibiotics, and Autism, which is a discussion involving a recent Federal Court ruling. The final verdict was that, even though antibiotics in our food are admittedly harmful, the LAW’s hands are tied, and the...
Premies and Autism

Premies and Autism

As a practicing neonatologist for over 25 years, it has actually come as bit of a surprise that premature infants are more likely to develop signs and symptoms that are associated with autism. In an earlier position as the Director of one of the largest neonatal units...
An Autism Prevention

An Autism Prevention

Since there are multiple proposed factors that could lead to autism, some of them, at least, ought to be preventable. Proven associations due to environmental pollution or toxic foodstuffs are under little personal control, however. Research that recently appeared in...
Top Autism Stories of 2015

Top Autism Stories of 2015

An end-of-the-year GoogleScholar.com search for publications using the term AUTISM returned ~ 58,000 entries: √ Treatment = 32,000 results √ Diagnosis = 19,000 items √ Cause = 19,000 records √ Prevention = 10,000 entries Here are the stories that represent this...