silly question? Who is this guy?

[Guest guest]

http://welkowitz.typepad.com/

Larry Welkowitz

I don't think I've heard of him, but maybe I have. Lynn Weissman who is a

pretty nice lady

from FEAT Sacramento, who doesn't seem to be to berzerko like Lenny.... and

whose focus

is AS since her son has AS... has a list that she sends out local stuff to.

It's a nice very

short kind of newsletter.

Anyway, I haven't looked at the blog yet. I haven't listened to any of the

podcasts (mp3

files)

part of Lynn's email:

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Weekly " Podcast " on Asperger Syndrome

Presented by Larry Welkowitz, Ph.D, from the Department of Psychology at Keene

State

College in New Hampshire, this is a weekly program featuring interviews with

experts and

real people with AS/Autism. The program is suitable for download to an MP3

player(Ipod)

or listened to online .

To hear these interviews:

http://welkowitz.typepad.com

I found a software program that is useful for individuals who are " visual

thinkers " to help

them with writing. It's called ThinkMap Visual Thesaurus.

" Both a thesaurus and a dictionary, its interactive display lets you explore and

understand

language in a new way. " Here's the link:

https://www.visualthesaurus.com/

Also, a great planner/scheduler concept is Planner Pads, here's the link to

their website:

https://plannerpads.com/concept.asp

----------end of quote from Lynn's email

And, besides the Lenny show that's this week...featuring scare mongers Kirby and

Kartzinel...

Tony Atwood is coming to Sacramento in April! wow. It's a future horizons

thing. I don't

think I " m interested, I might go if it was free.

And a semi-top secret secret....

tomorrow the real Autism Diva, well, the real Autism Diva of New Hampshire...

the one and only.... Kathleen Seidel... is coming to Sacramento....

she has some friends in Sacramento and she's going to schmooze with someone with

an

interest in autism besides me... who I don't think I should name. I think she

might talk

about it later. And I hope she gets to come to my place and meet my ASD kid and

the

dog.

We will attend the Margaret Bauman presentations at the MIND institute on

Wednesday, I

hope. I don't know how much of her visit is supposed to be secret or discrete

or

whatever, so I'm not going to post about it on aut advo until she does. I

suppose the

worst that could happen is that Lenny would show up at the MIND institute and

make a

scene if he knew that two of his critics would be there. I have never seen

Lenny at the

MIND institute gigs, or heard of him going to one. Though he personally whipped

up the

two mercury dads who went there and basicallly tried to shout me down when I was

talking during the question period... he gave them tips on what to say and what

to avoid

so they wouldn't get in over their heads... doesn't take much for these people

to get in

over their heads as far as science goes.

Kathleen's leaving Sacramento to see other family a day before Kirby is flying

in, I think... I

was hoping she could pass him in the airport and scare him with some questions

he

doesn't want to hear... like " who do you think you are, bucko? "

For those of you who might not know who Kathleen is she's the webmistress of

neurodiversity.com and a real advocate for autitsics. A.B. has met her, so has

Muskie, I

hear, and Shore...I think.

next, we all need to go to Montreal to IMFAR this summer and see .

Would't that

be cool? a hundred or more spectrum people attending IMFAR! It's almost " no

autistics

allowed " . Unfortunately, it's really expensive.

Camille