Interverbal: Reviews of Autism Statements and Research

I am happy to say this is Interverbal’s (the blog’s) 6th birthday. I am sad to say this will be the last post on Interverbal. When I created Interverbal, I was an undergraduate just about to...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2011/09/i-am-happy-to-say-this-is-interverbals.html

Green et al. (2010) used random assignment to assess a parent based intervention for children diagnosed with autism. The study is being discussed as a marked improvement over current research in ...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2011/02/reviewing-green-et-al-2010.html

That voice….you know the one…. Over-calm and too slow. It probably drove you crazy when you heard it at a certain point in your life. If I were to just say “the voice” in relation to educ...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2011/02/that-annoying-voice.html

This is a continuation of a previous discussion between MJ and myself in my last post. This issue has cropped up previously and I realized I wanted to prioritize the discussion and make it a lit...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-cant-we-all-just-get-along.html

In a New York Times, letter to the editor Dawson writes: The latest British Medical Journal paper about autism and vaccines, which provides evidence that the initial report linking autism and v...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2011/01/geraldine-dawson-disappoints.html

Please read the post and watch the video at Ed's blog. It indentifies a case of school based physical abuse and what appears to be the effort to suppress/punish the whistle blower. I do think t...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2010/12/abuse.html

A lot of fun is being had at the expense of a certain editor of the Age of Autism. Frankly, it seems richly deserved. Read his claims here .

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2010/11/silly-speculations.html

Hmmmm... For some reason I can’t seem to post to the Bloomington Alternative anymore; technical issues perhaps? However since Jake was kind enough to post one last time there. I would like to o...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2010/10/reply-to-jake.html

"There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. -Thomas Jefferson I am writing in...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2010/09/help-vote.html

Probably the most interesting argument Mark Bauerlein makes, is to insist upon his concern for...even high regard of the millennial generation. His second most interesting comment is insist that ...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2010/09/book-review-dumbest-generation.html

Liu, King,& Bearman have published a fascinating new epidemiological paper. Here is the abstract: “Despite a plethora of studies, we do not know why autism incidence has increased rapidly o...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2010/05/interesting-new-study.html

Dr. Andrew Wakefield has been struck off the medical register in the United Kingdom. He has been in effect, de-licensed. Dr. Wakefield drew a connection between the Measles Mumps and Rubella vacc...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2010/05/struck-off-dr-wakefield.html

A new GF/CF study will be presented at IMFAR. Hyman et al (2010) took a challenge based approach, which is different from what has been seen so far. The authors enrolled 22 pre-school aged childr...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2010/05/new-gfcf-study.html

Medical Hypotheses is a non-peer reviewed journal founded by the late David Horrobin. The way Dr. Horrobin is described varies greatly. I have heard him described as a brilliant, if somewhat ecce...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2010/05/medical-hypotheses.html

About Interverbal, both the person and the blog. I am employed in the field of Special Education. I am current or past member of several behavior analytic, gifted/talented, and special education...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2010/05/about-interverbal.html

A fellow school teacher, Julie Obradovic posted an interesting article over at the Age of Autism. She compares the educational practice of differentiation to help meet individual needs, to what s...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2010/04/confusing-differentiation-with-belief.html

A few years back when I was still a Masters student, I found myself in discussion with a mother of a young child diagnosed with autism. She predicted that when I had begun my professional career ...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-i-have-learned.html

I am going to start by offering a bold premise; there are other good autism information groups, but nothing else that blends science and advocacy as well the Hub . I say this not to assign a “g...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2009/09/hub-and-ideas.html

This blog is four years old today. I am going to reprint one of my favorite posts for this occasion. Way back from Nov 2006: Shall I compare thee to a norm referenced score? Thou might just ...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2009/09/happy-birthday-interverbal.html

From what I can tell, different situations lead to different types of bullying. Maybe some of these are not really bullying, but they are grey areas and still a concern. Age discrepant rough-and...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2009/09/bullying-ii.html

Introduction A few years back I was supervising an afternoon recess. I was watching Mike, a young man with various disabilities (not autism), playing American football with some other boys his a...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2009/09/bullying-part-i.html

I am aware there is some concern over proposals in various States to force insurance providers to cover ABA as it relates to autism. I am going to take what may be an unpopular position and argue...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-i-support-aba-insurance-billing.html

It is disappointing for me whenever I hear someone use the word “retard” as an insult. I am sure this is not a unique experience amongst hub bloggers. Nor are we likely to be the only ones wh...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2009/03/using-word-retard.html

I would like to take this opportunity to review “Scary Stats IV: Polio”. This is my third review of an article from the Insidevaccines blog. Some might wonder why I am reviewing a science is...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2009/03/review-of-insidevaccines-scary-stats-iv.html

Making decisions as a parent of a child diagnosed with autism can be tough. This doesn’t mean it has to be, just that it can be. One of the reasons it can be tough is that popular culture or th...

http://interverbal.blogspot.com/2009/02/mercury-challenge-misunderstandings.html