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Bernard Rimland, Ph.D., (born in Cleveland, Ohio, 1928) is a research psychologist, writer, lecturer, and advocate for children with autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, and mental retardation. Based in San Diego, California, since 1940, Dr. Rimland is the founder, in 1967, and Director of the Autism Research Institute (ARI), and founder of the Autism Society of America, in 1965. Dr. Rimland has long been an internationally recognized authority on autism and is the father of a high-functioning autistic son. City nickname: The Forest City Location in Cuyahoga County, Ohio County Cuyahoga Mayor Jane Campbell Area –Land –Water 213. ...
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A psychologist is a social scientist who studies psychology, the study of the human mind, thought and human behaviour. ...
Autism is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder that manifests itself in markedly abnormal social interaction, communication ability, patterns of interests, and patterns of behavior. ...
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Mental retardation (also called mental handicap and, as defined by the UK Mental Health Act (1983), mental impairment and severe mental impairment) is a term for a pattern of persistently slow learning of basic motor and language skills (milestones) during childhood, and a significantly below-normal global intellectual capacity as...
City nickname: Americas Finest City Location of San Diego within San Diego County County San Diego Mayor vacant Area –Land –Water 372. ...
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A boy with autism and his mother Autism refers to a spectrum of disorders, and lies somewhere under the umbrella of a greater encompassing spectrum, that of pervasive developmental disorders that involve the functioning of the brain. ...
Education and early career
After completing his undergraduate studies at San Diego State University, Dr. Rimland obtained his Ph.D. in experimental psychology and research design, from Pennsylvania State University, in 1953. A landmark architecture featured in the school logo. ...
The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (commonly known as Penn State) is a prestigious state-related land-grant university in Pennsylvania, with over 80,000 students at 24 campuses throughout the state. ...
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Dr. Rimland's son Mark was born in 1956, when the diagnosis of autism was rare. From birth, however, something was drastically wrong with him. Rimland had recently earned is Ph.D in experimental psychology, in 1953, but was not yet familiar with the word autism. Only much later was it determined Mark's condition fell into the category of early infantile autism, rather than regressive autism. Despite challenges, Mark has nevertheless become a talented artist. 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Early infantile autism, first described by Leo Kanner, describes the usual pattern of neurological development in an autistic person. ...
Regressive autism is a manner of the neurological development of an autistic child in which they first develop some non-autistic skills, such as speech, and then start to lose those skills at about the age of 18 months, thereafter following the standard pattern of autistic neurological development. ...
After his son's diagnosis, Rimland set forth on a quest to understand autism and bring much needed attention to the disorder, in order to foster research into its causes and treatment. Rimland has often sparked controversy along his way.
Encountering resistance from the medical establishment The medical establishment has long questioned Dr. Rimland's contributions to autism research. In 1995, Bennett Leventhal, a professor at the University of Chicago, tersely dismissed as "Rubbish" Rimland's concern about the rise in autism diagnoses, and his assertion vaccinations might be among the causes. 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The University of Chicago is a private co-educational university located in Chicago, Illinois. ...
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Rimland is among a minority of researchers who belive that thimerosal (a mercury-based preservative) used in vaccines is a direct cause of autism. The United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration assert that there is no demonstrable link between thimerosal and autism, based on studies by Thomas Verstraeten and other scientists. The structure of Thimerosal Thimerosal (sometimes spelled as thimerosol and thiomersal[1]) is an organometallic compound used commonly since the 1930s as a disinfectant (trade name: Merthiolate) and as a preservative in some vaccines, cosmetics, tattoo inks, eye drops, and contact lens solutions, as a result of the deaths of...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta is recognized as the lead United States agency for protecting the public health and safety of people by providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships with state health departments and other organizations. ...
FDA logo The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the government agency responsible for regulating food (human and animal), dietary supplements, drugs (human and animal), cosmetics, medical devices (human and animal), biologics and blood products in the United States. ...
Thomas Verstraeten, MD, MSc, is a vaccine researcher for GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals. ...
In her book, Children with Starving Brains, Jaquelyn McCandless, MD, calls Dr. Rimland "The grand godfather" of the biomedical treatment of autism. Rimland's book, Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implication for a Neural Theory of Behavior (1964), is credited by many with changing the prevailing view of autism, in the field of psychiatry, from an emotional illness - caused by refrigerator mothers - to the current recognition that autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder. 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Autism is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder that manifests itself in markedly abnormal social interaction, communication ability, patterns of interests, and patterns of behavior. ...
The term refrigerator mother was coined in the 1940s as a label for mothers of autistic children. ...
Drawing attention to possible autism epidemic Dr. Rimland is claimed by anti-vaccine campaigners to be among the first medical professionals to draw attention to what has since become a staggering increase in the number of diagnoses of autism. However, Rimland has no medical qualifications, so this characterisation is wrong. Rimland's early observation about the rise in diagnoses during the mid-1990s, regarding what he claims to be an 'autism epidemic', is regarded by anti-vaccine campaigners as prophetic. The number of controversies surrounding vaccination campaigns, many of which Rimland has found himself in the midst of, have also escalated in tandem with the scope of the possible epidemic. The advent of a possible autism epidemic was first suggested in the mid-1990s by a handful of healthcare professionals who noticed sharp increases in the numbers being diagnosed and reported to public health agencies. ...
Vaccination is a term coined by Edward Jenner for the process of administering a weakened form of a disease to patients as a means of giving them immunity to a more serious form of the disease. ...
A brush with Hollywood Dr. Rimland has lectured on autism and related problems throughout the world, including before thousands of professional gourps, and he is the author of numerous publications. After his high profile, within what was then a small community of autism activists, caught the eye of movie producers in nearby Hollywood, California, Rimland served as the primary technical advisor on autism for the 1988 movie Rain Man. Mark Rimland was interviewed by Dustin Hoffman, serving as a a model for the character portrayed by the movie star. The movie helped establish worldwide awareness of autism, just when the epidemic was first becoming apparent. Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that extends from Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to south boundary east of La Brea Avenue...
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Rain Man is a 1988 film which tells the story of a selfish yuppie who discovers that his father has left all of his estate to the autistic brother he never knew he had. ...
Dustin Hoffman Hoffman with Ben Stiller in 2004s Meet the Fockers. ...
Ongoing endeavors Rimland founded the Autism Research Institute, in 1967, as a global network of parents and professionals concerned with autism. ARI conducts and fosters scientific research intended to enhance treatments for, and prevention of, autism. The ARI data bank, the world's largest, contains over 35,000 detailed case histories of autistic children. 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Dr. Rimland is the editor of the Autism Research Review International, published by ARI, which covers biomedical and educational advances in autism research.
Dr. Rimland and his wife, Gloria, recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. The couple was married by Rabbi Monroe Levens of Tifereth Israel Synagogue, then located in Kensington, California. Kensington is a census-designated place located in the East Bay, part of the San Francisco Bay Area, in Contra Costa County, California. ...
Quote from Bernard Rimland "Soon after my textbook on autism was published in 1964, I began to hear from other parents. Many parents told me that their children were normal until getting a triple vaccine – the DPT shot. In 1965 I began systematically collecting data on the symptoms and possible causes of autism: In 1967 — 33 years ago — I began querying the parents, specifically about the child’s response to the DPT shot. Many had reported marked deterioration. During the past few years the Autism Research Institute has been flooded with an upsurge in pleas for help from parents throughout the world – from wherever the World Health Organization vaccine guidelines are followed. The majority of these parents say their children were normal until getting the MMR – another triple vaccine." Dr. Bernard Rimland, testimony before US congressional committee (April 6, 2000)
Books - 1964 Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implication for a Neural Theory of Behavior
- 1976 Modern Therapies (with Virginia Binder, A. Binder)
- 1998 Biological Treatments for Autism and PDD (with William Shaw, Lisa Lewis, Bruce Semon)
- 2001 Tired - so Tired!: And the "Yeast Connection" (with William Crook, Cynthia Crook)
- 2003 Vaccines, Autism and Childhood Disorders: Crucial Data That Could Save Your Child's Life (with Neil Z. Miller)
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See also The 2000 Simpsonwood CDC conference was a meeting convened in June, 2000, by the Centers for Disease Control, held at the isolated Simpsonwood Methodist retreat and conference center in Norcross, Georgia. ...
Dr. Andrew Wakefield (born 1957 in the United Kingdom) is a Canadian trained gastroenterologist, best known as the lead author of a controversial 1998 research study, published in the Lancet, which reported a novel clinical syndrome characterized by a consistent set of bowel disorders among 12 children in association with...
Autism is classified as a neurodevelopmental disorder that manifests itself in markedly abnormal social interaction, communication ability, patterns of interests, and patterns of behavior. ...
There is considerable disagreement over the exact nature of autism, a spectrum or cluster of conditions, of varying severity, which are not well understood. ...
David Kirby is an investigative journalist based in Brooklyn, New York, a regular contributor to the New York Times since 1998, and author of the 2005 book Evidence of Harm - Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy. ...
Inoculation was a method of minimising the harm done by infection with smallpox. ...
This is a list of autism-related topics. ...
Mark Geier, M.D., is a vaccine researcher and vocal advocate for vaccine safety, based in Silver Spring, Maryland. ...
The MMR vaccine is a combined vaccine for immunization against measles, mumps and rubella. ...
The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is a United States program for vaccine safety, co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). ...
External links - Autism.org - Center for the Study of Autism
- Autisme.net - 'The Autism Explosion', Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.
- PBS.org - 'P.O.V. - Refrigerator Mothers'
- SDJewishJournal.com - 'Dr. Bernard Rimland is autism's worst enemy: Devastated by his child's diagnosis decades ago, Rimland is dedicated to destroying the developmental disorder', by Patricia Morris Buckley (2003)
- Whale.to - 'The Autism Increase: Research Needed on the Vaccine Connection', Testimony of Bernard Rimland, Ph.D., Before the House Committee on Government Reform (April 6, 2000)
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