It was 1949. My parents’ first child, my older brother Michael, was born. I am my family’s archivist, so I still have the baby album my parents started. It begins hopefully enough. Black and white pictures, probably taken with Dad’s Hawkeye camera. After half a dozen pages of Mike in his crib and in his […]
I had heard that biomedical intervention was an approach to the treatment of autism. I also had an impression that this topic is controversial. Since I am a biomedical engineer by training and a biological determinist by inclination, I decided to discover what this the buzz surrounding biomedical intervention is all about. Due to the […]
My Letter to The Times About 10 or so years ago, the New York Times published an article about siblings of autistic children. Lacking in the article was the perspective of someone my age – one who grew up in the 1950s. I was fortunate in having my letter to the editor published. Below is […]
