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For some reason I’ve been thinking alot recently of a book that was published last year and that I enjoyed greatly. It is Voices from the Spectrum: Parents, Grandparents, Siblings, People with Autism, and Professionals Share Their Wisdom. It’s the kind of book I would like to see a whole lot more of, a symphony […]

Working from estimates that one in every 150 of us resides on the autistic spectrum, I have just discovered, with the Statistics NZ population clock as my guide, the possibility that 27,910 people in New Zealand currently experience life from this perspective.
Added to this group are those who are trying to understand what a position […]

The development of the Evidence-Based Guideline for Autism Spectrum Disorder is a significant cross-government project. The Guideline will be for anyone supporting or working with a people with autism, such as professionals or family members, who will be guided by what is known as ‘best practice’ according to internationally peer reviewed research. For those with […]

Anyone who was at the launch of A Perfect World on Monday night will tell you that “Billy Glish” — David Cohen’s old school friend Bill English — gave a soulful and eloquent speech about the challenges faced by families for whom autism is a daily reality. His observation that the book gave lie to […]

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I first heard of Asperger Syndrome in 1995. The last line in an educational psychologist’s report on our older son, Jimmy — who, according to his kindergarten teachers, seemed to have “trouble processing information” — read “ADD or AS”.
I knew what ADD was, and I knew that wasn’t Jimmy. But “AS”?
“Asperger Syndrome,” said […]