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Items by Scott (Scoop) Butki
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Navigating Love and Autism - NYTimes.com
Posted: January 2nd, 2012, 11:29pm CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:" GREENFIELD, Mass. -
Possible Genetic Link to Autism Identified
Posted: November 5th, 2011, 8:20pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
interesting I've written a lot about autism including temple grandin and horseboy -
Apps for Autism - 60 Minutes - CBS News
Posted: October 25th, 2011, 12:08am CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
fascinating piece -
Autistic and Seeking a Place in an Adult World - NYTimes.com
Posted: September 20th, 2011, 1:09pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:" eople with autism, whose unusual behaviors are believed to stem from variations in early brain development, typically disappear from public view after they leave school. As few as one in 10 hold even part-time jobs. -
Brain Imaging May Improve Autism Diagnosis
Posted: June 1st, 2011, 10:16pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
Fascinating. I work with people who are autistic and have several interviews and reviews regarding the topic. -
Autism Now: For Adults With Autism, Few Support Options Past Age 21
Posted: April 25th, 2011, 10:30am CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:"Although federal law mandates educational services for children with autism, there are virtually no support services provided once they become adults. -
Autism Now: Demand for Educational Resources for Children Outstrips the Supply
Posted: April 24th, 2011, 11:23pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
great series -
Autism Now: Exploring the 'Phenomenal' Increase in U.S. Prevalence
Posted: April 19th, 2011, 9:16pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
Second of six part of a great series on autism -
Autism Now: Robert MacNeil Shares Grandson Nick's Story
Posted: April 18th, 2011, 10:51pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
Excellent piece and I say that as someone who has not only read and done interviews about autism but works daily with two guys with autism -
Tim Shriver Tim Shriver asks Stephen to lead a campaign to get people to stop using the r-word. (04:51)
Posted: March 31st, 2011, 10:03pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
posted to the daily show-colbert report group -
An Interview With Seth Mnookin, Author of The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear
Posted: March 14th, 2011, 5:26pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
Article first published as An Interview With Seth Mnookin, Author of The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear on Blogcritics. -
'Moonwalking With Einstein' by Joshua Foer - Book Review
Posted: March 9th, 2011, 7:35pm CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:"An epidemic of amnesia, as potent as one of the surreal plagues in Gabriel García Márquez's novels, seems to have hit our culture. It's not just aging baby boomers who are complaining about their lousy memories. -
Why We Write About Grief By JOYCE CAROL OATES and MEGHAN O'ROURKE
Posted: February 27th, 2011, 11:39pm CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
fascinating piece -
Book review: 'The Panic Virus' by Seth Mnookin The anti-vaccine movement is studied as are the health risks that its actions present to the wider population.
Posted: February 11th, 2011, 11:16pm CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
great review - i am doing an interview on it. -
Travis County could lose $762 million for needy under current state budgets House budget would cut $16 billion to counties across the state
Posted: February 8th, 2011, 9:20pm CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:"Getschow, who is 36 and has cerebral palsy, uses Medicaid to pay two part-time attendants to help him 43 hours a week. They do all the things most people take for granted: cooking, cleaning, shopping. -
How 'mommy instinct' outdid science
Posted: February 4th, 2011, 3:58pm CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
I like the parts about halfway down where they talk about how the media dropped the ball in covering the alleged vaccine-autism link -
Why Salon's Autism Retraction Matters
Posted: January 27th, 2011, 9:22pm CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
great piece -
Seth Mnookin responds to Andrew Wakefield on CNN about the autism-vaccine myth
Posted: January 27th, 2011, 8:55pm CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
I'm talking here about interviewing Seth and choosing questions -
Sibling spacing may be tied to autism risk: study
Posted: January 11th, 2011, 12:51am CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
interesting theory -
Money: The Link Between Autism and Vaccines - Newsweek
Posted: January 8th, 2011, 10:33pm CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:"Like other persistent untruths—the belief that Obama is a Muslim, say—the endurance of these vaccine scares is due to multiple, interconnected causes. -
Will Money Woes Force Closing of DADS Facilities?
Posted: January 7th, 2011, 9:47pm CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:"Disability rights advocates try year after year to convince lawmakers to close Texas' state-supported living centers — the large, institutional-care settings that have been targeted by the U.S. Justice Department for dangerous conditions. -
The Code Words of Breast-Cancer Awareness
Posted: November 15th, 2010, 11:35pm CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
Thought this was interesting -
Oliver Sacks explores stories of visual perception lost
Posted: November 10th, 2010, 3:15pm CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:"In The Mind's Eye, Sacks, 76, focuses on visual perception - the still-mysterious process by which the retina of the eye drinks in billions of photons each second and sends them to the brain, where they are somehow turned into our view of reality. -
Fresh Air: Oliver Sacks: A Neurologist Examines 'The Mind's Eye' (I'm interviewing this guy)
Posted: November 2nd, 2010, 12:58pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:"Neurologist and writer Oliver Sacks has spent his career examining patients struggling to survive with a wide range of neurological conditions: Tourette's syndrome, autism, Parkinson's, musical hallucinations, Alzheimer's disease and phantom-limb syndrome. -
Susan Senator: Parents of autistic children must learn to embrace the cycle of life
Posted: July 14th, 2010, 11:15pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
Interesting perspective on autism -
A Dose Of Reality: My Exclusive Interview With Biggest Loser Finalist, Kai Hibbard (Part 1 of 3)
Posted: June 29th, 2010, 5:42pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:"Shortly thereafter, Kai and I spoke on the phone about her experiences on the Biggest Loser. -
A Dose Of Reality: My Exclusive Interview With Biggest Loser Finalist, Kai Hibbard (Part 1 of 3)
Posted: June 29th, 2010, 5:42pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:"Shortly thereafter, Kai and I spoke on the phone about her experiences on the Biggest Loser. -
Colbert report: Michael Specter says everyone gets upset about Big Science and Big Pharma, but they love Big Placebo. (05:59)
Posted: June 25th, 2010, 1:34pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
Published to the Daily Show/Colbert Group -
Why Skin Cancer Is on the Rise (Prime Suspect: Tanning Salons)
Posted: June 22nd, 2010, 5:59am CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:"ionally shows very low cancer rates, Stein said. -
Helicopter parents Have Neurotic Kids, Study Suggests
Posted: June 4th, 2010, 4:10pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:"verly protective parents might be leaving a lasting impact on their child's personality, and not in a good way, a new study finds. -
Seeking an Objective Test for Attention Disorder
Posted: June 1st, 2010, 1:43pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
i've been wondering lately if i have add or adhd so i'm among those wanting an objective test -
UT study: No proof that eliminating gluten, casein from diets of autistic children is effective; "The diet doesn't have anything to do with autism," researcher says
Posted: May 4th, 2010, 2:19pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:"A new study by researchers at the University of Texas says there is no evidence to support the hard-to-follow gluten-free and/or casein-free diets that some alternative-medicine practitioners routinely recommend for children with autism. -
Behavior: Addicted to Indoor Tanning
Posted: May 1st, 2010, 8:53pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:"Researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and State University at Albany used questions like these, adapted and modified from measures used to screen patients for substance abuse disorders, to determine whether college students were addicted to indoor tanni … -
That Chocolate Bunny Could Lower Your Blood Pressure
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 10:11pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:"on't be shy about nibbling at the ears of a chocolate bunny this Easter, because researchers have just given us another reason to eat this sweet treat. -
No Matter What, We Pay for Others' Bad Habits
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 7:02am CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
No Matter What, We Pay for Others' Bad Habits -
Disabled Immigration Detainees Face Deportation
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 6:45am CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
Hooray for this move related story on mental parity -
Mental Health Experts Applaud Focus on Parity
Posted: March 31st, 2010, 6:35am CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:"Even without the new health care law, mental health advocates were getting ready to celebrate parity — a law requiring benefits for substance abuse and mental illnesses to be on par with benefits for medical illnesses. -
Nominee to Disability Council Is Lightning Rod for Dispute on Views of Autism - NYTimes.com
Posted: March 28th, 2010, 8:22pm CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
This could get very interesting -
With Cancer, Let's Face It: Words Are Inadequate
Posted: March 17th, 2010, 1:02am CDT by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:"It is easy shorthand. But it says more about the writer or speaker than it does about the deceased. We like to say that people "fight" cancer because we wrestle fearfully with the notion of ever having the disease. We have turned cancer into one of our modern devils. -
Against the Odds: A Video of An Austin Teenager With Autism
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 4:15pm CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
This is a movie about a teen I've worked with off and on since I arrived. -
Kristoff: Do We Really Want the Status Quo on Health Care?
Posted: February 19th, 2010, 10:43am CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:"The debate about health care in recent months has focused on the shortcomings of the reform proposals. -
Move to merge Asperger's, autism in diagnostic manual stirs debate
Posted: February 11th, 2010, 9:38pm CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
Good piece asking a lot of the right questions. -
The False Prophets of Autism
Posted: February 3rd, 2010, 1:55pm CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
Excellent piece -
Vaccine Study Retracted, and Causes of Autism Remain Elusive - On Parenting (usnews.com)
Posted: February 3rd, 2010, 1:47pm CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
Long in coming but i'm glad they finally made this official. -
Autism Society of America: HBO's "Temple Grandin" Tells the Inspirational Story of Autism Advocate
Posted: January 28th, 2010, 5:06pm CST by Scott (Scoop) Butki
excerpt:"On February 6 at 8 p.m. (ET/PT), HBO will premiere an original film based on the inspirational true story of Temple Grandin, starring Claire Danes.