Blog Archives

• (04/18/2010) Why I Write
• (09/18/2012) Bright's Disease, ASD, and the Dustbin of History
• (10/30/2012) Beyond the DSM: Seeing ASD in 3D, Part I
• (12/28/2012) Beyond the DSM: Seeing ASD in 3D, Part II
• (03/15/2013) ASD in 3D - Part III ("The warmer the water, the faster the ice melts")
• (04/02/2013) Mental Health in ASD - 01
• (06/07/2013) Ask The Doctor
• (06/13/2013) Words of wisdom from a parent who’s been there…. and survived!
• (06/20/2013) Science in the News (a regular blog feature) OF MICE AND MEN
• (06/27/2013) FAMILY MATTERS
• (07/03/2013) Family Matters - Unintended Fireworks
• (07/11/2013) Elephants in the Room (a regular feature)
• (07/18/2013) Family Matters - One Hand For The Ship And One For Yourself
• (07/25/2013) Science in the News – Before you were born….
• (08/01/2013) In the clinic: First, do no harm.
• (08/23/2013) The DSM5 – An idea whose time has come…and gone?
• (08/29/2013) DSM5: Double Standards, Part 1
• (09/05/2013) DSM5: The case for double standards
• (09/26/2013) Business Cards for children on the spectrum. An idea whose time has come!
• (10/11/2013) Family Mental Health is a key ingredient in outcome for all children, but especially for the child with developmental disability.
• (10/17/2013) It’s too soon to tell.
• (11/20/2013) The Fourth R*
• (01/08/2014) ADOS Abuse
• (01/27/2014) There is a great chasm separating the world of Medicine from the world of Education.
• (02/05/2014) Gumball Medicine
• (02/11/2014) Dr. Coplan addressed a packed roomful of members of the Philadelphia chapter of the Asperger & Autism Alliance for Greater Philadelphia.
• (03/17/2014) Is one of my patients the next Adam Lanza?
• (05/07/2014) When is “co-morbidity” no longer “co-morbidity”?
• (05/14/2014) It’s Nature AND Nurture
• (05/21/2014) What ever happened to “People First”?
• (05/28/2014) Burning Bridges
• (05/29/2014) Elliot Rodger: Asperger Syndrome?
• (06/01/2014) Elliot Rodger: What we know (and what we don’t)
• (06/04/2014) ASD and Crime: Risk Factors
• (06/08/2014) ASD and Crime: More on risk factors
• (06/14/2014) Pathways To Crime. Asperger Syndrome and Crime.
• (06/18/2014) ASD, Asperger Syndrome and Crime: Innocent Offending
• (06/26/2014) You are the Mahout
• (07/01/2014) Internalizing
• (07/13/2014) Externalizing Behavior: Despair plus Rage
• (07/20/2014) The Real Enemy
• (07/28/2014) Out and About
• (08/04/2014) Cursing the Deaf
• (08/11/2014) Indistinguishable From Normal
• (08/18/2014) Who’s on first?
• (08/26/2014) Know What You Don’t Know
• (09/03/2014) Know What You Don’t Know – Part II
• (09/14/2014) Indistinguishable from Normal - Conclusion
• (09/24/2014) My sister has a brother
• (10/13/2014) Special Children – Part 1
• (10/21/2014) Special Children, Part 2
• (10/28/2014) Autism, Ebola, and the Will Rogers Effect
• (11/14/2014) I never wanted another child
• (11/24/2014) Rescue Fantasies
• (01/28/2015) SHOOTING AT SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - REPORT OF THE OFFICE OF THE CHILD ADVOCATE
• (02/02/2015) SHOOTING AT SANDY HOOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - REPORT OF THE OFFICE OF THE CHILD ADVOCATE
• (02/10/2015) Whose story is it, anyway?
• (02/16/2015) Unfounded Claims Of Illness
• (02/23/2015) Nancy Lanza part 3
• (03/03/2015) What E.T. teaches us about Newtown
• (05/19/2015) Mental illness In Parents Can Blind Them To Their Children’s Mental Health Needs.
• (06/12/2015) I am in an interesting conversation with a reader on Facebook about the Newtown shootings.
• (07/03/2015) Out on a limb
• (07/21/2015) Waiting for the train - A chance encounter taps into bigger things.
• (08/07/2015) Camelot. Dr. Coplan reflects on the legacy of inexplicable loss.
• (08/15/2015) The legacy of Frances Oldham Kelsey
• (08/20/2015) The world turns upside down
• (09/14/2015) NeuroTribes– 2
• (09/23/2015) Dr. Coplan continues his discussion based a reading of Steve Silberman’s Neurotribes: The legacy of autism and the future of neurodiversity.
• (09/30/2015) Leo Kanner: Mixed Decision part 1
• (10/05/2015) Dr. Coplan continues his review and commentary on NeuroTribes by Steve Silberman.
• (10/06/2015) Newtown all over again?
• (10/13/2015) Nostalgia. Doctor Coplan reflects.
• (10/19/2015) Beyond Kanner and Asperger – part 1
• (10/25/2015) Beyond Kanner and Asperger – Part 2.
• (11/01/2015) Beyond Kanner and Asperger – Part 3
• (11/08/2015) Beyond Kanner and Asperger – Part 4
• (11/11/2015) Today I fly the Flag
• (11/14/2015) Freedom is not free.
• (11/16/2015) Beyond Kanner and Asperger, Part 5: The Universe in 2 dimensions
• (11/23/2015) Beyond Kanner and Asperger, Part 6: ASD in 3D
• (11/30/2015) Beyond Kanner and Asperger, Part 7: ASD in 3D
• (12/14/2015) Beyond Kanner and Asperger: Part 8 - CLOSING THE CIRCLE
• (12/28/2015) Father knows best – Or does he?
• (01/11/2016) I am autism… And I vote
• (01/28/2016) History Repeats l Zika Is a Reminder Of Why We Immunize.
• (02/15/2016) On the road again. Enabling School Psychologists to work with families of children with ASD
• (03/15/2016) Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
• (03/21/2016) Consultation and advocacy to secure services for children with ASD – Sometimes the Magic Works.
• (04/02/2016) Life is complicated.
• (04/21/2016) Life is Complicated - Part 2
• (04/26/2016) We are all Trans
• (05/25/2016) We are all in this together.
• (06/01/2016) Life is Complicated - part 03
• (06/21/2016) Life is Complicated - 4: The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
• (06/27/2016) RIP John Bull
• (07/06/2016) The Legend of Og and Gog
• (07/21/2016) We interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcast
• (08/22/2016) First they came....
• (09/07/2016) The 8-Ball from Hell in ASD (continued): Perfectionism