Tinker ‘Bout It6-10 p.m. Tuesday Science Museum Oklahoma 2020 Remington Place sciencemuseumok.org 405-602-6664 $20 Walking through Science Museum Oklahoma (SMO) with a child with Asperger’s Syndrome is a different experience, a much more cautious experience. Thousands of people are bouncing around the exhibits like hyper-heated particles in a boiling cauldron of water, lights and sounds […]
autism
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Gaining acceptance
PieceWalk 7:30 a.m. May 5 Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark 2 S. Mickey Mantle Drive piecewalk.org 405-315-6337 Free-$40 When his son Max was diagnosed with autism in the first grade, Phil Inzinga didn’t know where to turn. Luckily, a friend told him about Autism Oklahoma and its parent support groups. After attending one meeting, Inzinga joined a […]
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Lyric Theatre hosts a sensory-safe production of James and the Giant Peach
The production is presented in partnership with Washington, D.C.’s Adventure Theatre.
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Third-grader’s new diagnosis leads to calmer, focused life
Doctors and medical professionals struggled for years to pin down a proper diagnosis of Adam Elliott’s tics and rages.
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Out of money
The closure would be a blow to many families who have come to rely on Early Foundations Family Outreach to help children with autism learn crucial skills early in life. For eight years, Early Foundations and Project Peak, part of the Autism Center at the University of Oklahoma’s Child Study Center, has received $600,000 in […]
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H.P. Lovecraft’s Cool Air
They have something to do with a 5,000-year-old Egyptian relic called the Horns of Werethekau and one Dr. Torres who has the power to resurrect the dead, but you’re likely to have forgotten that when the opening credits finally finish up four minutes later. And you’re equally likely to forget the entire movie 82 minutes […]
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OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger’s Movie
OC87: The Obsessive Compulsive, Major Depression, Bipolar, Asperger’s Movie is a different kind of “head trip” film: one that puts the audience in the mind of its subject and co-director, Bud Clayman, a middle-aged man inflicted with all the maladies that make up the unwieldy title. Those like him and those who care for people […]
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Marked for a cause
Brandon Cutter works on a tattoo of Dash. Shannon Cornman Whitney Villanueva had never been inked. As an artist at Atomic Lotus Tattoo began to needle an outline of two puzzle pieces on her back, Villanueva said she was not nervous, particularly since her husband had sketched the design and her friends were there with […]
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Family affair
At work, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist uses a microscopic worm to learn more about autism. At home, he and his wife, Kathy, have spent the last 17 years raising two sons with autism spectrum disorders, proving nothing comes quickly in science or in autism. “There’s the possibility of a good, positive outcome. But […]
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Fundraiser to help local children with disabilities
The nonprofit helps kids ages 3 to 16 with physical and mental disabilities — including autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and spina bifida — improve their conditions. “Sunset Stampede” will be held from 7 to 11 p.m. Sept. 30 at the Express Event Center, 8512 N.W. Expressway. The event will include a barbecue dinner from […]