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For so long growing up I could NEVER get my haircut in a barbershop. Crowded places like that would make me feel uneasy, the sound of scissors would make me cringe and when hair would fall after being cut I’d shiver like thousands of little pins were stabbing me in the back of my neck. […]
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This post is by Mandy Farmer, a blogger/author/advocate who writes for the blog From Motherhood. She and her husband have three kids under seven years old. Their middle son is on the autism spectrum. She writes about autism, motherhood and military family life. You can also find Mandy on Facebook here. Would you like to
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This guest post is by Dr. Lamar Hardwick who is a husband, father of three, and a pastor. After years of struggling with social anxiety, sensory processing, and other related issues, Lamar was diagnosed with autism in 2014 at age 36. Today he uses his platform as a community leader to be an autism advocate helping
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Kerry Magro, an adult with autism and Founder/President of KFM Making a Difference (a New Jersey based non-profit corporation), announced his organization’s award of college scholarships to six young adults with autism; Talia Anderson, Chris Fegley, Leora Robbins, Spencer Agabiti, Lucas Brodsky and Clarin G. Paap III. With this latest round of scholarship awards, Kerry
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Some of the biggest fears I’ve ever had in my life are the fear of the unexpected, fear of change, and the fear that I would be looked at differently. This all came into focus my first year of college at Seton Hall University. Before college, I had only told a few people that I
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When you told me about your child, when you first saw signs of autism in them right around their 2nd birthday, you looked at me with tears running down your face. You told me that was about the first time you had got him a diagnosis, and how relieved you were to finally know what it
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Kerry Magro, an award-winning speaker and best-selling author who’s on the autism spectrum has been nominated for Future Horizons Temple Grandin Award. Dr. Temple Grandin is one of the leading autism advocates in the world along with a best-selling author. In 2010 her life was turned into a biopic via HBO Films in ‘Temple Grandin.”
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This is the press release for our autism scholarship program for 2016. If you would like us to email you a copy of this to share with others please feel free to email us at KFMMakingADifference@gmail.com! “KFM Making a Difference”, an organization focused on housing and disability advocacy, after the recent success of their scholarship
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Thanks to the generous donations of members in our community we were able to reward 7 scholarships to students with autism for college in 2015. This was part of our Spring 2015 Making a Difference for Autism Scholarship Program which is ran through KFM Making a Difference, a non-profit that focuses on helping the special needs
2015 in Review: 7 Students with Autism Receive Scholarship Aid for College Read More »
Over the past several years there have been countless efforts to provide more autism-friendly events for our communities to enjoy! Growing up with autism in the early 90’s these events were limited but now are becoming more popular in different locations. An autism-friendly event usually entails having a private area for people with autism to
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