Shameful shamefuldocumentary.com Alex Plank and NoahTrevino are wrapping up editing on a documentary film entitled “Shameful”, which reveals the negative treatment and educational neglect of autistic youth in France, and the dramatic effect it has on those families. They traveled throughout France for over a month interviewing parents and meeting young autistic children in their homes, capturing the frustration, and angst of caretakers as they try to navigate a system that both blames the presence of autism on parents, and neglects to provide any educational structure for the children. I spoke with them several weeks ago. What led you to the Project? We heard about the issues in France through a conversation and thought that the topic would be a good fit for documentary. We had heard about “packing” [a controversial treatment where children are wrapped in wet sheets for hours at a time, which is often repeated over…
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Emily Willingham www.emilywillinghamphd.com Word on the street — well, really on a blog from a researcher — is that the writer of the autism/inflammation New York Times op-ed, Moises Velasquez-Manoff, is working on an “annotated” version of the article that will “back up” his claims.” Some annotation would have been useful to begin with; as I noted in my analysis of that op-ed, in many instances, discerning the origin of his information was difficult or impossible. I understand that something that appears originally in print can’t have hyperlinks to appropriate references, but the writer certainly could have beefed up in-text citations (author names, journal publications), at least avoiding the criticism that the piece was unsatisfactorily sourced. Sourcing was not the only issue with that piece, however. Velasquez-Manoff has a book to sell, and that book, like many popular science books, has a narrative that may not necessarily stand up to…