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Saving child cancer services at Wellington Hospital has been a major public health issue lately. However, this situation need not have arisen if some forward planning had been done in the 1990s. It takes about 15 years to train a paediatric oncologist and there is a global shortage of these and other skilled health professionals. [...]

The third annual AWARES international online autism conference begins November 26th and is open to all to visit and participate. Here’s your chance to read the opinion and research findings from a long line of authorities, some very well known names, weighing in on all sides of the subject, including theories about causation, development, intervention, [...]

Autism has featured in the mainstream news lately with a flurry of activity after the NZ Medical Journal of 12 October published an article by a New Zealand doctor working in Australia, proposing that Janet Frame had high-functioning autism (HFA). Rehabilitation physician Sarah Abrahamson of the Queen Elizabeth Centre in Ballarat analysed Janet Frame’s autobiographical [...]

Autism support as an election issue? Really? Oddly enough, that appears to be what’s happening in Australia.
 
On the same day that Labor leader Kevin Rudd used his campaign site (yes, there’s no election date, but you can bet there’s a campaign) to announce plans to introduce specialised child care and early intervention services for [...]

A friend just sent me a link to a story about polar bears cavorting with huskies in the wild (thank you), and, more relevantly, in my subsequent meanderings on the website of Speaking of Faith, a programme in the american public radio stable, I stumbled across, and am currently listening to its latest offering: Being [...]

“The Government’s objective, broadly expressed, is that every person, whatever his level of academic ability, whether he be rich or poor, whether he live in town or country, has a right, as a citizen, to a free education of the kind for which he is best fitted and to the fullest extent of his powers. [...]

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 [...]