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The Rescue Post is now "Age of Autism."

Dan Olmsted is our Editor. Kim Stagliano is Managing Editor and Mark Blaxill and JB Handley are Editors-At-Large and Anne McElroy Dachel is Media Editor.  We know you'll like the new look and the in-depth coverage.

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Thank you.

Kim Stagliano

We're Moving!

Rescue Post is moving! Check here on Saturday after 9:00am for all of the details and our new name and address. Comments are now closed at Rescue Post. They will re-open on our new site.

Thanks to all of our readers and commenters. Check back on Saturday for the news!

Kim Stagliano

Vaccines Demonized??? Parents Just Want The Truth!

By: Angela Warner

When I read the Commentary titled “Vaccines and Autism”, by Ari Brown in the October 27, 2007 issue of the Wall Street Journal, just a short time ago; I came close to blowing my stack!

I should have known… The first two sentences of Ari’s commentary are a feeble attempt to position the medical establishment in the role of the martyr.

Jenny McCarthy has NOT said vaccines are evil. Nor has any other site I’ve been on in the past three years that discusses disease, and the pros and cons of vaccination.

There IS an Autism Epidemic

I wrote this piece for the general audience at Huffington Post in response to the media claims that there is no autism epidemic. Just better diagnosis. And smarter doctors. I disagree. My three girls with autism disagree.

Please comment at the Huffington Post site.

Thank you.

Kim Stagliano

The Lost Sheep

By Kent Heckenlively, Esq.

“If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?”  Matthew 18:12 – World English Bible

You might think since I write on autism and share the most current research freely with friends and family that the people around me would understand the reasons and the efforts my wife and I are making on behalf of our daughter.

You would be wrong.

Slow, Steady Progress as Parents Question Vaccines' Safety

Looks like parents are starting to make a difference in how the media treats the American sacred cow of the AAP vaccine schedule.  The Pittsburgh Tribune Review's Mike Cronin has done an excellent job raising the question, "Is the current vaccine schedule safe."

Here's a snippet: "Fever and rashes afflicted Gina, now 9, each time she received a vaccination, her mother said. But when Gina became reclusive and introverted after five vaccinations in one day when she was about 15 months old, Neil wondered if those treatments were causing her daughter's health problems."

You can read the entire article HERE.

The progress has been at a snail's pace for many years. But we see a change. A willingness to question the drug companies and the doctors who act as their final sales force. The snail's pace is picking up. Is that a cheetah I see on the horizon?

Anne McElroy Dachel Questions Mike Stobbe

By Anne McElroy Dachel

The story that autism hasn't increased, that the skyrocketing number of children with the disorder are nothing new is getting coverage everywhere in the media.

AP writer Mike Stobbe assures us that "many experts believe these unsociable behaviors were just about as common 30 or 40 years ago. The recent explosion of cases appears to be mostly caused by a surge in special education services for autistic children and by a corresponding shift in what doctors call autism."

I would like to ask Mike Stobbe this question: "If these kids with autism have always been here, but mislabeled as something else, then what did we do with them?"

As a parent and a teacher, I can tell you that it's very hard to miss an autistic child, even a mildly affected one.  We would have had to provide help for their special needs, even if they weren't labeled "autistic."   Why are our schools overwhelmed with so many children with special needs who weren't here twenty years ago?

Creative Way to Hire People with Autism

"Danish Company Certifies People With Autism"

A Danish IT company is hiring primarily workers with Aspergers and autism by "certifying" them to get around the fact that they may not have a formal diploma. Read the article from ComputerWorld HERE.

This is the kind of creative thinking we need here in America so that the "non-epidemic" of people with autism have a chance to earn a living.

Better Diagnosis?

Experts are claiming there is no autism epidemic. Better diagnosis and public education data explains the increase in numbers.

From MSNBC: "...Many experts believe these unsociable behaviors were just about as common 30 or 40 years ago. The recent explosion of cases appears to be mostly caused by a surge in special education services for autistic children, and by a corresponding shift in what doctors call autism."

Ask an adult with autism (there are many who blog and write) how many people they knew like themselves in the 1950's, 1960's and even the 1970's. Did they stand alone as often as they stood out?

Fifty Years of Shortsighted Science

By Anne Van Rennseleaer

I had my babies at 20 (1964) and 22 (1966). The ovaries formed in my daughter before she was born were completely formed with material from my body-- what went into the mix?