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 Our son Marcus was born after a long and arduous but seemingly straightforward delivery. Birth is traumatic at the best of times, but the following day was pretty traumatic too. Around midnight I received a call from my wife tearfully telling me that Marcus had been having seizures, and had been rushed into the Newborn [...]

One Monday in mid-June of 1996 I took the train from Milan to Vicenza and found my way to the street address printed on the call-up card I had received just a few days earlier. A little surprised to discover that it was an ordinary looking residence, not the office or hospital building I expected, [...]

Caroline Quick and Andrew Dever are two articulate young adults, who, like many other emerging researchers, are seeking research funding for their work. They have recently left Allenvale Special School in Christchurch and Caroline is currently attending a two year life skills course at CPIT and Andrew is at Skillwise.  They are now conducting their own participatory focus group [...]

From Ari Ne’eman and the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (see contact details below)

Excerpts from “Lives Edward Kennedy changed” by Jennifer Maloney from August 26 issue of Newsday

“Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s sweeping legislative record spans nearly five decades and includes monumental shifts in social policy that improved the lives of millions. A liberal lion who roared [...]

The following article was written by Reesh Lyon, a journalism student at Wellington’s Whitireia Polytechnic, about Alan George a member of his quiz team. It is reproduced here with the permission of Alan, Reesh and the journalism course. The full article is at http://www.newswire.co.nz/2009/03/invisible-disability/

Mar 30th, 2009 | By Reesh Lyon | Category: Featured Article, Front Page [...]

I am writing this story as a cautionary tale of what can happen.
I am a woman with Asperger’s Syndrome, aged 41 and living in Christchurch NZ. My whole life story would take too long to tell, and is all very sad. I am on the Invalid Benefit, having other health issues as well, [...]

Finn Higgins was known to users of the Public Address System discussion forums as a keen-minded, literate, witty and sensitive debater, and an asset to the community. What we could not know was the extent to which he was struggling with depression and anxiety in his personal life. These problems were related to an undiagnosed [...]

For those who don’t know me, I’m Matt Frost. I work as Policy and Information Researcher at CCS Disability Action National Office in Wellington. I am also proud to say I am an Aspie!
Last month, I was privileged to be able to attend ceremonies at the United Nations in New York. This is somewhere I [...]

The NZ Autism Spectrum Disorder Guideline was launched at Parliament on World Autism Awareness Day, 2 April 2008. It is a world first in that it is a whole of life, whole of spectrum and whole of government approach to autism. It will be a living guideline so can be updated regularly and have gaps [...]

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 [...]