Do you know if you or your dependents qualify?
If you haven’t been to a meeting, and you aren’t sure if you qualify, you need to find out Now!
The Autism Insurance Act:
* Requires many private health insurance companies to cover the cost of diagnostic assessment and treatment of [...]
Between the last month of school for Bug, the last round of concerts for all of us, and trying to find a place in Maine for us to stay while Bug is at his music camp, I have been up to my face in crapola. I have found a few [...]
Ya know what would really piss Moi off? John Edwards using my donation to pay his skank.
Failed presidential candidate John Edwards, whose political action committee paid more than $100,000 to his mistress’ company, acknowledged yesterday that federal investigators were looking into how he handled his campaign funds.
But the former [...]
So HE is the one responsible for getting the NIH all the money…!
NEW YORK, NY (April 25, 2009) – Autism Speaks, the nation’s largest autism science and advocacy organization, today applauded Senator Arlen Specter’s (R-PA) announcement that he would introduce the Cures Acceleration Network (CAN) Act, groundbreaking legislation focused [...]
Came across this website while looking for which states have insurance for autism.
Also came across this map - it shows which states have autism insurance reform, introduced legislation, or who are in the pooper.
I am really stunned that Vermont is in the “Little or No Activity” [...]
The other night I was outside walking Pooch, and when I came back on the porch, I saw this…
It was farther away than it looks in the photo. At first I thought it was a bees nest, you couldn’t see how brown it was until I [...]
Dorothy should be glad she isn’t there any more….
A push to make insurance companies cover more therapies for autism failed Wednesday in the Kansas House.
Lawmakers said they had too many questions about the impact of the proposed insurance mandate. They plan to study the issue next year. A similar [...]
Sorry if you’re from Oklahoma, and you’re offended - or if you’re not from Oklahoma and you’re offended. You must be a Republican. Because, unlike Nevada, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and a bunch of other states, Oklahoma doesn’t give a shit about autism and the various therapies being covered by insurance.
OKLAHOMA [...]
In a matter of hours, Arlen Specter went from a Republican for nearly three decades to Democratic incumbent. The party switcher has raised about $6 million for [...]
I hope this guy wins his lawsuit. But he needs to work it from the learning angle. The one about some autistics and math is the abstract part….
The McGavock High School senior has passed the English and biology tests required for graduation and is very good at history [...]
That’s not a football call, that’s the temperatures here for the next week…..
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I needed to cat blog. Been slackin.
Just look at that butt. Biiig butt. Biiig kitteh. Ollie doesn’t weigh much, though, even though he’s big. Still sleeping like a dog, too.
Mommy just got him a present - a hummingbird feeder that sticks to the glass. You can just [...]
“Wouldn’t it be great if you could Twitter just by thinking about it?”
That query sparked what Williams called the “a-ha moment.”
“We can do that,” said Williams, an assistant professor and the principal investigator at the lab in Madison, Wisconsin. “We can do that tomorrow.”
In the end, it wasn’t quite [...]
...they (tears) were shed in abundance on the floor of the Nevada State Assembly on Tuesday, after a landslide vote to approve a bill that will mandate insurance coverage to diagnose and treat children living with autism. Parents of children with autism were in the [...]
From my ASCEND email….
We wanted to advise you that an opportunity exists for Aspergers/High Functioning Autism children ages 12+ to participate in Dragon Boating. These children interact with each other by paddling in their own Dragon Boat on the Schuylkill River.
Practices are Wednesdays from 5:00 pm to 6:00 [...]
Wonder what Pentagon agents were looking for in Malvern today?
Pentagon investigators searched the Pennsylvania offices of a unit of Germany’s Siemens AG (SIEGn.DE) on Wednesday as part of an investigation of a Siemens contract with the U.S. military, a company spokesman said.
“Investigators from the Defense Criminal [...]
Old Dickie Boy is really gettin’ mouthy. I thought we were rid of this ass.
In an interview with Fox’s Sean Hannity, Cheney called for documents that showed the “success” of the interrogations to be declassified and released so that there could be an “honest debate” over whether the [...]
The Art of Friendship: Intensive Social Skills Summer Camp
The Child and Family Art Therapy Center is again offering the Art of Friendship Social Skills Camp featuring art therapy and music therapy. The Art of Friendship Camp will be in session for 6 [...]
Here is a petition that I fully support. I think that if Tony Attwood doesn’t disassociate himself with this malarky, he is doomed to be disowned by the autism community. He has so much clout as an autism expert, that I would personally support a move like that.
This [...]
No, I haven’t been away….we’ve had sort of a crisis situation, everyone is ok, just one of those things. Today has been my first “free” day in a week. So I will put up a couple of posts to make up for things.
In the meantime, Ari [...]
There are a couple of things going on this summer which are fairly local….get them for your ESY ASAP!
Cindy at Acting Antics is holding a course on Self Advocacy for College Bound Students with AS the week of July 27 from 10-12 noon. Look at the links for “Summer [...]
A Craft Show. I can’t get a room, because of SHOPPERS.
The Smithsonian Craft Show is an exhibit of 120 exceptional craft artists, representing works in basketry, ceramics, decorative fiber, furniture, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper, wearable art, and wood. This is your opportunity to purchase items from [...]
I posted This, you know, Chuck Norris and yeehas and all that rot wanting to secede….
And now, today, the governor of Texas jumps on the Chucky Wagon!
An animated Perry told the crowd at Austin City Hall — one of three [...]
Betts and Patrick Workshops presents…
Voices of Asperger Syndrome: Supporting Individuals with ASDs at Home, School, and Community
June 20, 2009
Sheraton Harrisburg Hershey
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
To register, go
here.
Teachers and other professionals, parents, and individuals with Asperger Syndrome and other Autism Spectrum Disorders are invited to learn about [...]
OK, I know it’s not an autism post. But Patelson’s is closing, and that’s worth mentioning.
For more than six decades its shelves bulged with the fruit of Mozart and Bach, Stravinsky and Strauss, to be plucked by shoppers who wore its wooden floors black and sought counsel from [...]
I have to go to DC in a couple of weeks for a seminar, and I can NOT find a room for under $300. And *that’s* using the AARP discount. There are plenty of rooms available, they’re just all upwards of $300. The B&Bs are full up, because no one [...]
Today I was in the grocery store and saw a trash magazine with Dubya’s photo on it, saying he was suicidal. I know, that post was done on April 1. But the rag is still on the racks.
If only he had [...]
Received this in an email today:
FROM: Bureau of Autism Services
FUTURE OF PENNSYLVANIA AUTISM SERVICES
The Bureau of Autism Services Looks Ahead
Do you have an interest in how The Bureau of Autism Services is planning for the future?
Do you have ideas on how BAS can continue to implement [...]
So there. Ya know, the Washington Post ought to be able to hire someone to fix its website so people who use Firefox can read their articles without having to look at it upside down. I have about 16” of hieroglyphics and code before I can get to the search [...]
Been looking for colleges all week…..it’s amazing how much some universities have for services, and how much some don’t. Some you wouldn’t expect to have much, have a lot. And some are really starting to do it right. I was really pleased to see this, UD being such a [...]
Every time I hear Obama speak lately, it seems to me like he’s running for President….but not of the US. Of the World.
I had not said this to Hub, but creepily enough, earlier today he said, “You know, it’s really strange, Obama seems like he’s running for President of [...]
This whole thing is shameful, she should be ashamed, too….
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — A kindergarten teacher who held a vote to kick a 5-year-old autistic student from the classroom lost her appeal for reinstatement.
An administrative law judge Tuesday upheld the St. Lucie School Board’s decision to suspend Wendy [...]
Gardasil shots giving side effects that are anywhere from death to paralysis to neurological damage—and that there may be some connection to autism as well?
From the first link….
At my suggestion, during the first 15 minutes, Botha quickly interviewed five girls from around the country who were [...]
Finally—- autism legislation was introduced this week that includes services for adults…
ASA especially applauds the inclusion of support services for adults on the autism spectrum in this bill. Currently, the federal government provides for educational services until age 21; however, autism is a lifelong disorder, and when the school [...]
Autism Shrieks is at it again, and using Harvard to do it. And everyone’s buying it. I would love to see the guidelines for this study. Not to mention that it’s nice that Shrieks can use old news to throw out this time of the year, huh?
Autism’s toll isn’t [...]
I think I have one show on TV left that I like….. I will miss ER. 15 years of consistently good TV.
[...]Well, I started out National Autism Month / World Autism Awareness Day right, didn’t I? Forgot entirely to post. lol And I’ve been posting a post a day on autism ever since I started blogging. Well, I’ll just have to make it up with either an extra post sometime.
Of [...]
Bryan tipped me off to this news…
A Central California company is recalling about 1 million pounds of pistachios over concerns of possible salmonella contamination.
Food safety officials are looking through Setton Farms’ plant in rural Tulare County to see if it could lead them to the source of the [...]
Ya know how the first page in the paper that older people turn to is the obits?
Well, you can see dead people, too….
A Quebec entrepreneur is planning to bring obituaries out of the back pages of newspapers to a new home on the small screen.
Gerald Dominique hopes “Je [...]
Not only have they succeeded in poisoning our animals and making everyday shit that breaks, they’re making sure our houses kill us….
Since when is a new house smelling like rotten eggs a normal occurrence???
Most materials used to build or remodel homes' [...]
Pervert.
A former Children’s Hospital Boston pediatrician and best-selling author accused of sexually abusing as many as 50 boys will never practice medicine again, according to an agreement he signed yesterday with the medical board in North Carolina, where he has treated patients for more [...]
I watched 1776 this weekend, and this song is just stuck in my head. It’s stunning. The song starts about 5 minutes in.
If you don’t know the singer, his name is John Cullum. You may recognize him from ER, where he played Mark Greene’s father.
[...]Except that it’s 34 degrees out….
I can’t biotch. The last week has been pretty good, for the most part. I got to purge the shed on Wednesday, a yearly saga, but without Bug’s help.
But I’ve been an insomniac for the last week. I’m sleepwalking….was at a conference all day, and [...]
“These payments were all made to individuals in the subsidiary whose performance led to crushing losses and the near failure of AIG,” Cuomo said in a letter today to Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. “Thus, last week, AIG made more [...]
OK, so she broke up the band. Still, she is doing good, which is what John would have wanted.
Yoko Ono will unveil an original mural titled “Promise” at UN headquarters next month in honor of World Autism Awareness Day, an advocacy group said Monday.
The mural by the 76-year-old widow [...]
No, it’s not blog neglect.
I had two worm-viruses so have been offspending lots of time getting rid of them. The culprits? Sobig-F, and Swen. You’d think Sobig-F would be gone by now, but noooo…..
Speaking of varmints, does anyone really care if Texas secedes? Doesn’t sound so [...]
I hear the judge is going to decide where to put Bernie Madoff while he’s awaiting sentencing….
Well, I got just the place. How about here? Doesn’t have to be in Sacramento. These things are all over the country. It’s still cold out, but I imagine there [...]
We’ve all gotten this email…..but how is it that Bug can read this??? He just read it aloud to me, at a pretty fast clip, to boot…
This is weird, but interesting!
fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 [...]
Late again. Decided to catblog anyway.
How does he do this??
Ollie is one of the most flexible cats I’ve ever seen. Really loose, too. One thing he doesn’t do, as a rule, is resist people picking him up - and when you [...]
This is what it looks like outside….
and….
This is our weather forecast for the weekend.
This is just sick.
I want Al. Where’s AL????
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I guess they think the hard of hearing can’t see, either?
The test will also be held approximately 10 days a month at additional test centers located in Allentown, Erie, Johnstown, Lock Haven, and Scranton. For further details on test dates, contact the Commission’s Information Services Unit; Telephone (Voice) (717) [...]
I hate Adobe Hacrobat. It crashes my computer, hogs memory - I can’t open more than one .pdf file with it without needing to close everything and start over.
The other day, I was looking online for CD burner software for my office computer. The old thang, which isn’t connected to [...]
I truly feel bad for the employees, because these are American-made products….
NEWARK—The Longaberger Co. announced Thursday one of its largest layoffs in recent years, affecting 295 employees at the corporate office building in Newark and manufacturing facility in Dresden.
The basketmaker announced the elimination of 120 management, administrative and [...]
The Prince has found his perch…
He’s there pretty much every time we go into the kitchen. It’s a real pain, especially when you want to throw something out. Yeah, he’s huge. He’s not light, either. When he stretches out on the bathroom rug, [...]
Screw Community. What has the “Community” EVER done for Aspies or their families?
One of my former students, an Aspie, has all but graduated from college with a degree in recreational therapy. She has been looking for a year for a place she can do her internship. It must be [...]
Not for the awards themselves. I have not seen Slumdog Millionaire yet, or The Reader - I can’t get anyone here to go with me. That happens a lot. So I wait, rent them from Netflix, and then Hub gets mad when I say I saw something and it was [...]
I think what I just saw with Hugh Jackman on the Oscars - the opening “entertainment” - had to be the worst thing I’ve seen on TV in years. Just Awful. Ungawdly.
[...]My feet are killing me. I had boots on that were fine as long as I wasn’t walking fast on the sidewalk, lol. Lots of fun -and I got to meet some really great people!
Have lots of pictures that I will post, and some video. Problem is, this weekend I [...]
Yes, Moi is going, I have my ticket to the Project Runway 6 fashion show for Friday morning at 9 a.m.!!! It’s probably out in the hinterlands, but who cares?! And hopefully I will be home with good pictures that night!!! Not of the clothes, of the PEOPLE!!!
And, [...]
OK…..If you voted against the stimulus, then your state doesn’t get any of the money.
How’s that? Think you’ll get to keep your job next election? Think again.
Ya know, it’s not like anyone can tell the future. But re-spewing the Bush BS is just plain stupid. You leave no one any [...]
This is just incredible. I know the man who was this boy’s stepfather, and I can’t imagine how he could ever have been involved with someone like this....
The 16-year-old boy said she ordered him to strip naked, then bound his hands with packing tape and beat him relentlessly.
Then, authorities [...]
This is just incredible. I know the man who was this boy’s stepfather, and I can’t imagine how he could ever have been involved with someone like this….
The 16-year-old boy said she ordered him to strip naked, then bound his hands with packing tape and beat him relentlessly.
Then, authorities [...]
Does your cat ever get up on tables, counters, and the like, and knock stuff off? Then when it hits the floor, they play soccer with it?
Scratch one diamond ring. I kid you not. Someone left the door open to our bedroom (ahem....not Moi....) and he was in there getting [...]
Does your cat ever get up on tables, counters, and the like, and knock stuff off? Then when it hits the floor, they play soccer with it?
Scratch one diamond ring. I kid you not. Someone left the door open to our bedroom (ahem….not Moi….) and he was in there getting [...]
You may have heard about this..... Last week, a Kent State professor’s non-verbal autistic son beat her to death.
Not many autism bloggers have posted about this yet, but some people are concerned that autistics will be thought of as violent, and that parents [...]
You may have heard about this….. Last week, a Kent State professor’s non-verbal autistic son beat her to death.
Not many autism bloggers have posted about this yet, but some people are concerned that autistics will be thought of as violent, and that parents [...]
I really do feel sorry for him. He’s actually trying to DO something during these first months in office, as compared to Dumbya, who only wanted to UNdo everything. No one knows what will work, or how fast any of it will work, or how much everyone (government and citizens [...]
I really do feel sorry for him. He’s actually trying to DO something during these first months in office, as compared to Dumbya, who only wanted to UNdo everything. No one knows what will work, or how fast any of it will work, or how much everyone (government and citizens [...]
Newman might welcome the extra day off. But rural areas wouldn’t.
The 5 day delivery scheme is the dumbest idea ever proposed by the Postal Service. It will save very little money. It will cost jobs. It will totally screw consumers. Millions of us will end up paying late [...]
Newman might welcome the extra day off. But rural areas wouldn’t.
The 5 day delivery scheme is the dumbest idea ever proposed by the Postal Service. It will save very little money. It will cost jobs. It will totally screw consumers. Millions of us will end up paying late [...]
You gotta be in the house by 8:00 on the weekends. Otherwise you are a suspect in the Coatesville fires…
Although this change is effective immediately, minors found on the street from 8 to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays will not be cited, provided they comply with police orders or [...]
You gotta be in the house by 8:00 on the weekends. Otherwise you are a suspect in the Coatesville fires…
Although this change is effective immediately, minors found on the street from 8 to 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays will not be cited, provided they comply with police orders or [...]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has pancreatic cancer.
If she retires, and if pancreatic cancer is true to form, odds are she will, Obama would do well to replace her with another woman. Especially seeing that she’s the only woman on the Court now.
Let’s see, what [...]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has pancreatic cancer.
If she retires, and if pancreatic cancer is true to form, odds are she will, Obama would do well to replace her with another woman. Especially seeing that she’s the only woman on the Court now.
Let’s see, what [...]
There are a lot of people out of work. A lot of good, honest, hard-working people who actually know what they are doing. People who don’t throw shit at others, or spread lies and bullshit. People who have families to feed, people who are losing their homes.
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There are a lot of people out of work. A lot of good, honest, hard-working people who actually know what they are doing. People who don’t throw shit at others, or spread lies and bullshit. People who have families to feed, people who are losing their homes.
And [...]
That’s been me, for most of the weekend. Most of the last week, actually.
Now that I’m basically back to normal (whatever that is), tell me something.....why is it that every time I have to drive somewhere far at night time, we’re supposed to have shitty weather?
Of course, it didn’t help [...]
Our local area has made the national news....
Since New Year’s Day, Coatesville has seen 14 arsons, including one on Saturday night that destroyed 15 row houses on Fleetwood Street, leaving up to 60 people, including a city-council member, homeless. There has been nearly $2 million in damage done. The [...]
Outside, the lawns are just ice on top of snow. Pippin chased a stick I threw, and slid in circles down the hill. Wish I had it on video!
No new Ollie photos this week. But that doesn’t mean I can’t cat blog with someone else’s cats....I LOVE this LOL.......
The Census Bureau is hiring census takers.....
Their office called the local borough office; a friend of mine is on the council there and took the message. She said they’re paying $17.75 an hour.....and of course, ya have to take the test. It’s not as [...]
I am SO sick of this. I feel like pitching the thing across the room.
I have cleaned up/defragged/spywared/adremoved/unloaded some from the hard drive, and still this thing is slower than fuck. The only program running on startup is Avast. But still I type and watch the letters appear 10 minutes [...]
The new report comes from researchers including David Wallinga, MD, director of the IATP’s food and health program. They bought 55 products that list high-fructose corn syrup first or second on their list of ingredients, which means high-fructose corn syrup was a [...]
I really hate whiners. I want to smack them.
The Republicans, especially the asswipe senator from Utah whose name escapes me at the moment, are going to be whining for the next four years. WAAAH We’re not getting our way! WAAAAH.....!!!
SUCK IT UP, guys.
I give credit to [...]
It is really nice to watch the helicopter taking Dumbya away - FAR AWAY - from the White House.
Get him out of there. NOW.
Hub is dancing...lol....
Got any eggs?
[...]I was going to update my previous post....but I decided it would be more fun to do this.
I just saw Al Gore. Now I am sad.
Bill Clinton looks ill, or even sort of like he’s going to cry, or wants to hurl something. Hillary looks pleasant at least. Roslyn Carter [...]
I was going to update my previous post....but I decided it would be more fun to do this.
I just saw Al Gore. Now I am sad.
Bill Clinton looks ill, or even sort of like he’s going to cry, or wants to hurl something. Hillary looks pleasant at least. Roslyn Carter [...]
This is another of those (JFK, MLK, RFK, 9/11...) moments. Except it’s a happy one, as compared to one of death. I will be in my living room, recording the moment.
What station? Right now, ABC in HD. They have had very good coverage this morning, their vantage points have [...]
