Michelle Neely

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  Michelle signed the petition | 29 days ago

  Champion global vaccines and prevent millions of unnecessary childhood deaths
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  Michelle commented on the petition | 29 days ago

  Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Allow the kidney transplant Amelia Rivera needs to survive

  I'm a friend of a woman who has a daughter with this disorder. This friend helped my two daughters with autism tremendously when she was a college student, and I admire her greatly.

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  Michelle signed the petition | 29 days ago

  Children's Hospital of Philadelphia: Allow the kidney transplant Amelia Rivera needs to survive
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  Michelle signed the petition | 10 months ago

  Tell CBS Outdoor not to run Anti-Vaccine Ad
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  Michelle commented on the petition | 10 months ago

  Tell CBS Outdoor not to run Anti-Vaccine Ad

  And while you're at it, please get rid of Sheryl Attkinson and her irresponsible attacks on vaccines. It's embarrassing, especially when your competitors at ABC and NBC have science and medical reporters clearly understand how thoroughly the vaccine-autism link has been debunked. Do you want CBS known as the repository for stories touting junk science?

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  Michelle commented on the petition | 11 months ago

  Keep Our Loved Ones Safe From Wandering-Related Injuries and Death

  Although wandering is not an issue for my two daughters with autism, it IS a source of anxiety and fear for a number of families we know.

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  Michelle signed the petition | 11 months ago

  Keep Our Loved Ones Safe From Wandering-Related Injuries and Death
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  Michelle commented on the article | almost 3 years ago

  Special Ed "vs" Gifted?

  My two daughters are also what's called "twice exceptional."  They are both in general ed 100 percent of the time, but get pulled out for social skills and OT.  They're also pulled out one day a week for gifted education.  
  
  They both love their "gifted" day.  There are a total of 8 kids in my second grader's gifted class and 4 in my fourth grader's (a total of 3 girls!).  They're in a big classroom that's free of chaos and is relatively quiet.  It gets them away from the stresses of holding it together in a classroom of 20+.  They learn Spanish, do logic, advanced math, research, creative writing, among other things.  The gifted specialist reads anything I give her about autism and has gone to workshops to learn more.  As far as I'm concerned, it's the most effective intervention they get. 
  
  

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  Michelle commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  The Curious Incident of the IACC, Vaccines, and Autism Speaks

  I'd like to add a "me three" to not turning this very fine blog into a constant discussion of then non-link between vaccines and autism.I am very glad that Ms. Singer stepped down.  Since my two daughters were diagnosed with autism 7 years ago, I have been a supporter of Autism Speaks (formerly NAAR) and have been dismayed by the turn toward anti-science.  NAAR/Autism Speaks used to be one of our family's biggest charities but I did not give them any money this past year because of this nagging feeling I was getting about their policies toward vaccine-autism research.I can only hope that Geraldine Dawson, a great autism researcher whom I really admire, will step down also as Chief Science Officer.