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Dov's rad new hairdo!   (Posted on 07/02/2011)
Dov got a haircut from the fabulous ATILA, with his dad, Jon, on Father's day, 2011...
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Independence Day? Not For Everyone... (Posted on 07/04/2009)
Holidays can be the most stressful times for families with an autistic member (and vacations are no vacation either). Today I noticed a father draggin...
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Carly has her own web site! (Posted on 06/10/2009)
Many of you met Carly Fleischmann when she was featured in a story on ABC News in 2008. Carly is a teenage girl with autism who is non-verbal and type...
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Communication on the go for iPhone and iPod Touch (Posted on 06/04/2009)
New software creates a communication device interface for the iPhone - it has great potential but may be too small for many kids. But it's a good star...
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Darlene Hanson's Free Webinar May 18, 2009: Communication and Behavior : How to help children, teens, and adults who have little verbal communication skills (Posted on 05/17/2009)
Date: Monday, May 18, 2009
Time: 6pm-8pm Pacific Standard Time
Darlene will discuss the connection between behavior and communication; how to help s...
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Jon's movie 'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past' premieres! (Posted on 05/03/2009)
'Ghosts of Girlfriends Past' premiered on April 27th and opened on May 1st! We all went to the premiere at the Chinese Theater in Hollywood - Jon, his...
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Happy Birthday Dov!!! (Posted on 04/27/2009)
Dov will be turning 17 on Tuesday - I can hardly believe it! We had a birthday dinner for Dov on Saturday night with grandparents, aunt and cousins. D...
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News from the front... (Posted on 04/16/2009)
Dear Friends,
I hope everyone has survived the spring “break” - we went to Philadelphia for Passover and we enjoyed seeing Jon’s parents and celebrat...
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Darlene Hanson's Latest Newsletter (Posted on 12/10/2008)
Hi Everyone,
Many of you already know Darlene, either from this Forum or through workshops or as a therapist. Darlene is a speech and language therap...
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Soma's manual is now available (Posted on 12/02/2008)
In case you haven't heard, Soma's long-awaited manual has recently been released and is available on Amazon. I just finished reading it and it's good ...
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More travels... (Posted on 05/07/2008)
Written May 2nd
Back on a plane again on my way home to LA from Nashville. The Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) and Autism meeting was a great succes...
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Because the world is round... (Posted on 05/03/2008)
Written April 30th...
Hello friends,
I haven't posted for a while due to an incredible amount of travel that started in January. Unfortunately the...
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Scientists Reconsider What They Think They Know About Autism (Wired Magazine) (Posted on 02/27/2008)
Here's a new article just out from Wired Magazine that I think you will find very interesting. It starts to ask the question of whether there isn't fa...
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Hope you had a chance to view this! (Posted on 02/25/2008)
In case you haven't seen this yet...(most of you have I hope!) here is a really great video clip on ABC about a young lady named Carly who has ASD and...
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Tito's new book! (Posted on 01/20/2008)
Dear Friends,
As some member's have already announced, Tito's new book has come out! It's a wonderful book and I highly recommend it. We are so fortu...
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A doorway into our spiritual community for Dov... (Posted on 12/26/2007)
Dear Friends,
Last Sunday the Los Angeles Times published an article about the wonderful program Dov participates in that assists children with disab...
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Nick News: "Dov's Story" link is working! (Posted on 11/27/2007)
Some of you had trouble accessing the Nick news story on Dov -- the link in my earlier post is working now - please go read the article and see the vi...
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Our Community website on About.com! (Posted on 11/20/2007)
Hi all,
Thanks to Lisa Jo Rudy at About.com for posting a wonderful blog entry about our Community website!!! This is a great way for families all ov...
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"Dov's Story" and video interview now on Nick News website!!! (Posted on 11/20/2007)
Greetings!
There is a wonderful piece on the Nick News website called “Dov’s Story” and it includes a video interview with Dov who uses his LightWrit...
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The Manual! (Posted on 11/06/2007)
Dear friends,
Well here it is – finally. The Footnotes are missing and it needs some graphical tweaking but I thought I should get it up on the site ...
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'Autism in Real Life' (and at the movies...) (Posted on 11/03/2007)
Last Friday Jon's movie 'Dan in Real Life', starring Steve Carrel, opened in the theaters across the country. It was very exciting for our whole famil...
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Fall 2007 - Autism goes on vacation (not) (Posted on 10/11/2007)
Dear Friends-
My last post was just before we went on our family summer vacation in early August. We had a great vacation (click here). But somehow r...
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About reading and nonverbal/low-communicating people with autism (Posted on 07/31/2007)
It seems likely that many if not most nonverbal or low-communicating children with autism can read by the time they are six or seven, sometimes earlie...
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My friend Sharon's letter... (Posted on 07/24/2007)
Hi,
I wanted to share this letter from my friend Sharon Rosenbloom - she and her son Joey recently attended the Syracuse Summer Institute and she tel...
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Summer Institute 2007 – Communicating Through the Arts - hoping to hear from some of you... (Posted on 07/22/2007)
Hello,
Last week Dov, my sister Sarah and Karen (Dov’s one-on-one aide at school) went to New York to attend the ‘Summer Institute 2007 – Communicati...
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A touching blog entry from New Brunswick member... (Posted on 07/20/2007)
I am sure some will find this blog entry controversial but I found it very moving and the author (member Harold Doherty) kindly agreed to allow me to ...
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Chicago Sun Times - Schools held autistic boy 'hostage': judges (Posted on 07/18/2007)
Schools held autistic boy 'hostage': judges
July 15, 2007
BY TIM WALDORF Naperville Sun
Two judges have said Naperville School District
203 held...
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Book event at Vroman's with Jane Kaczmarek! (Posted on 07/09/2007)
Hello-
I just wanted to share some photos from my recent book event at Vroman’s in Pasadena. It was a wonderful evening and my dear and loyal friend ...
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My rant about Nick News! (Posted on 06/27/2007)
Some of you have asked what happened to Dov’s interview on Nick New…
In early April Nick News contacted me to say they were doing a program o...
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My Cold Spring Harbor autism workshop experience (Posted on 06/25/2007)
I pulled up in front of the house around four in the afternoon after being gone for a week in Cold Spring Harbor and I saw at once that the huge plumb...
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A little story of inspiration from my trip to Houston... (Posted on 06/23/2007)
Hello friends,
I was in Houston recently where I gave a talk, visited a school and had a book-signing event. The very best part of my trip happened a...
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More catching up... (Posted on 06/19/2007)
Greetings from Cold Spring Harbor, New York--
I have started to post a series of “catch-up” blog entries. Please forgive me for being away from the...
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Catching up... (Posted on 06/17/2007)
Hello Friends-
Please forgive me for being away from the community for more than a month. I’ve been checking in daily but unable to keep up on my b...
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The LA CAN WALK is tomorrow! (Posted on 04/27/2007)
I remember when we started the CAN WALK several years ago --- tomorrow there will be 10,000 people walking in Los Angeles to find a cure for autism. W...
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See Dov & kids! Watch Nick News Autism Program Sunday night at 8:30PM (PST & EST)
(Posted on 04/20/2007)
This Sunday night at 8:30PM Nick News will be airing a one-hour program about autism. They interviewed siblings of autistic kids and also some of the ...
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A Blackberry moment... (Posted on 04/20/2007)
I received a beautiful e-mail from one of our members recently and she said I could post this excerpt here:
Dear Portia-
Just yesterday I had a qu...
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Understanding the Cure Concept
(Posted on 04/13/2007)
I had the exchange below with a new member of the community and I think it brings up an important topic which needs to be discussed more often and mor...
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Where are the families with nonverbal autistic children?
(Posted on 04/10/2007)
This is an essay I wrote recently:
In search of a term to find those who have given up searching
Imagine you are given a list of words, words th...
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Strange Son reviewed in the Toronto Globe & Mail!
(Posted on 04/09/2007)
The Toronto Globe and Mail review appeared on April 8th, covering two new books on autism: my book �Strange Son� and Roy Richard Grinkerï¿...
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Families with so-called 'low-functioning' kids need a place to get together and help each other...
(Posted on 04/04/2007)
It has been 30 hours since Lisa Jo Rudy posted about the Strange Son Community on About.com and in that time 30 families have signed up to join! We ar...
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Message from Portia on Passover
(Posted on 04/03/2007)
Tonight is the second night of Passover. Last night we celebrated the first night of Passover with my husband Jon’s parents Marciarose and Jerry She...
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My comments related to the review of Strange Son and Born on a Blue Day on Slate.com:
(Posted on 03/30/2007)
Dear Friends,
Strange Son and Born on a Blue Day were reviewed on Slate.com this past week! Click on the link below to read the article.
Dov and...
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Slate Review of Strange Son and Born on A Blue Day
(Posted on 03/28/2007)
Slate did this great review on Strange Son and Born on A Blue Day
http://www.slate.com/id/2162836/fr/rss/
click here to read it.
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New TAP magazine article about Strange Son book, Dov and more!
(Posted on 03/23/2007)
Hi,
This is an article I wrote that just came out in The Autism Perspective (TAP) magazine. I love TAP magazine, it is informative and visual, helpfu...
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Listen to a wonderful interview with Dov on the RADIO! (Posted on 03/19/2007)
Dear Friends-
When journalist Allan Coukell called me up recently wanting to do a radio interview with Dov, I thought I'd misunderstood. Dov, as you ...
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Nick News does a program on autism!
(Posted on 03/19/2007)
Hi,
Recently the 'Nick News' crew came to our house to interview Miriam, Gabe, our friend Claire and Dov! Nick is doing a program about autism for 'A...
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Strange Son reviewed in New York Times!!!
(Posted on 02/27/2007)
A review of Strange Son appeared in the Science Times section of the New York Times today! Click hereto read: (Website)
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4 out of 5 families affected with autism in Philadelphia today.
(Posted on 02/26/2007)
4 out of 5 families affected with autism in Philadelphia today.
This morning I had an interview at WPVI ABC, Channel 6, here in Philadelphia for t...
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Watch this video! (Posted on 02/23/2007)
Amanda Baggs is a young woman with autism who is nonverbal and has very autistic behaviors, yet she can type 120 words per minute and communicate extr...
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More about what happened...
(Posted on 02/21/2007)
I thought I'd take this opportunity to tell you a little more about myself what lead me to write my book, �Strange Son�. My husband Jon Shes...
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I'm having a book-signing at Borders in Philadelphia!
(Posted on 02/21/2007)
I'll be at Borders (Center City) Thursday at 7:30PM! I am really looking forward to it! -Portia
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Strange Son in USA Today!
(Posted on 02/21/2007)
I was happy to see my book included in a roundup of five autism books in USA Today!
To read the article click here:
(Website)
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I'll be on the Jim Bohannon Show at 7PM PST (10PM EST) tonight!
(Posted on 02/19/2007)
Hi,
I will be talking with host Jim Bohannon at 7PM PST, (10PM EST) tonight - Monday, Feb. 19th! There will be call-ins from listeners so please call...
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Jewish Exponent article on Strange Son! (Feb. 15, 2007)
(Posted on 02/19/2007)
I was thrilled that this article appeared in The Jewish Exponent on Feb 15, 2007! It's short but very to the point and accurrate and it has a wonderfu...
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Seattle Times feature article on Strange Son...
(Posted on 02/05/2007)
(Website)
Friday, February 2, 2007 - 12:00 AM
THE SEATTLE TIMES
The mother of an autistic child finds hope and help unlocking her son's "hidd...
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So, I had my first book signing.... (Posted on 02/01/2007)
Greetings from my office on Rossmore Avenue in Hollywood, California. Contrary to popular belief, it is raining here. My book, Strange Son, was publ...
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Happy New Year 2007 and welcome to the strangeson web site!
(Posted on 01/08/2007)
This site is dedicated to parents, therapists, teachers and family members who wish to develop a better connection with someone they care about who ha...
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