Costs of caring

By Rick Colosimo / December 2, 2008 / Comments Off on Costs of caring

The NYT today has a post about the cost of caring for an elderly parent. One of the projects on our writing list is an article about measuring the soft costs of having an autistic child. We call these soft costs because one standard measure of evaluating medical treatments from a public health or insurance…

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Save the Date – 12/4/08 Film Screening

By Rick Colosimo / November 10, 2008 / Comments Off on Save the Date – 12/4/08 Film Screening

As the first public activity of the Wolfhound Fund, we will be sponsoring a screening of Jackie Spirer’s film “Finding Matty’s Voice.” Her film won the Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Ivy Film Festival. The screening will take place on December 4 at the Cornell Club, in New York City. More to follow. If…

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Next steps on open-source autism school

By Rick Colosimo / August 7, 2008 / Comments Off on Next steps on open-source autism school

To get started, We’ve posted a project in connection with the open-source autism school at Arielle’s Project Interns site. Here is the description: Develop specifications for a web 2.0 front-end for a project to create an open-source/crowdsourced model for starting a nonprofit school for children on the autistic spectrum. The website should support and encourage…

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Open Source Autism School

By Rick Colosimo / August 7, 2008 / Comments Off on Open Source Autism School

We live in the tri-state area surrounding New York City, which turns out to be a sort of national hotspot for high-quality (meaning effective at recovering a significant portion of children) programs for children on the autistic spectrum. Of course, each of the well-known private nonprofit schools only has space for about 30 kids total,…

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