Time can be our ally. It can also be our adversary. For months now, I have been marking its passage with ever-growing dread.
Chantal Sicile-Kira | Posted 04.02.2012
"All of us on the spectrum are different from one another and our wants and hopes are as well. It is important to recognize that when planning our lives."
Bruce Friedrich | Posted 05.21.2012
Not only does Speciesism: The Movie ask these life-changing questions, but it does so while taking viewers on an adventure that is tremendously entertaining and often laugh-out-loud funny.
Posted 03.08.2012
Temple Grandin, Colorado State University professor, world-renowned animal scientist and advocate for people with autism, will be inducted into the Co...
Ali Berlow | Posted 02.26.2012
It was truly blessed meat. Over every animal held in arms and slaughtered, a prayer was said as the swift, sharp deed of taking life in sacrifice was made.
Lisa Belkin | Posted 02.01.2012
If you could "cure" Down syndrome or autism would you be left with the same child? If you could avoid having a child with that condition, would you? Should everyone?
AP | Posted 12.04.2011
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Temple Grandin, an autistic educator who was featured in an HBO documentary, will have a scholarship established in her na...
Doug Demeo | Posted 07.11.2011
Prison has its own distinct landscape. While not all prisoners have been liberated from obsessive thinking or chronic negativity, neither have many of us who are not "locked up."
Posted 06.17.2011
It's a world that has fascinated so many: the closed universe of the autistic person. Are they thinking? What are they seeing? How are they experienci...
Ann Reynolds | Posted 05.25.2011
Now that Da Vinci has graduated from the receivership of art historians to scientists, technologists, and physicians, it's a runaway train with no wreck in sight.
Posted 05.25.2011
Sometimes, the supporting cast can be the true stars. Eric Stonestreet and David Strathairn look to be the favorites in this crucial category -- the...
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Getting rid of gestation crates is the most important reform the pork industry could implement at this time.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Would you consider animals to be "humanely raised" if they were forced to spend their lives suffering from chronic leg problems and crippling lameness only to be later dipped into an electrified vat of water?
Elaine Hall | Posted 05.25.2011
"This is for All Mothers," gasps Eustacia Cutler, barely catching her breath, as she is gifted the EMMY Award that Julia Ormond won for portraying h...
Temple Grandin, Ph.D | Posted 05.25.2011
As a scientist who has dedicated her life to improving livestock welfare, I am extremely alarmed that the USDA has paid so little attention to the animal welfare implications of their Humane Slaughter Act.
Jennifer Elster | Posted 05.25.2011
Here we embark on unruly excursions go so far into internal dialogs of the mind that a viewer might think: "how did I end up inside Terrence Howard's head?"
Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011
I don't give a hoot about football -- high school, college or otherwise -- so believe me when I say Friday Night Lights Season Four is a very satisfying TV drama with one of the best ensembles around.
Mark Blankenship | Posted 05.25.2011
The Emmys aren't just about honoring the finest achievements in television. They are also about teaching valuable lessons to us, the home viewers. Lesson #1: Apparently, I love Kyra Sedgwick.
Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011
Contrary to the Rose Acre's cheerful claims, our investigator found birds with broken bones and untreated, prolapsed uteruses; mummified corpses in cages with live hens; and abandoned hens who had fallen into manure pits.
Chantal Sicile-Kira | Posted 11.17.2011
Spring is here and with Spring comes April, and with April comes Autism Awareness month, a mixed blessing as far as I'm concerned.
Chantal Sicile-Kira | Posted 11.17.2011
The documentary A Mother's Courage does not sugarcoat autism, or celebrate it, or cure it. The movie's strength lies in that it shows the heart-wrenching reality of what families have to go.
David B. Black | Posted 05.25.2011
While Temple Grandin has become famous because she is an autistic who is accomplished, what is remarkable about her is how truly accomplished she is.
Elaine Hall | Posted 05.25.2011
As a mother of a child with autism and as a trusted children's educator, I thank HBO for focusing on the gifts - the abilities within the challenges of autism.
Melissa Silverstein | Posted 02.06.2010
Claire Danes is revelatory as Temple Grandin animal behaviorist, best-selling author, autistic and expert in autism.
Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011
In the role of the autistic, gruff voiced writer, educator, scientist, inventor, and consultant Temple Grandin, Claire Danes is as unglamorous as a glamorous movie star can be.
Caryn Sullivan | Posted 04.18.2012