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In 2007, the United Nations declared April 2nd of each year as World Autism Awareness Day. A few years later, in honor of the day a global autism awareness initiative was born called Light It Up Blue. On that day people all over the world shine a light on autism by going blue! My personal […]
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Today at Autism Speaks we launched our new Adult Diagnosis Tool Kit focused on helping to assist adults who believe they may have autism. I’m thrilled to share that I was featured in the Tool Kit for my story and in the conclusion with one of my favorite quotes where I wrote… “Everyone has challenges.
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With Autism Awareness Month coming up I wanted to spotlight a short documentary that I was able to take part in just 2 and a half years ago. The documentary above, directed and produced by Maria Perez looks at the spectrum of autism from the perspective of three adults who have autism. The mission of
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I had the great honor of presenting to The New York Center for Child Development in Harlem, New York about early intervention and school-based services for children with autism. During my talk I reflected back on my life as a toddler living with autism. I broke down some of my challenges and the need for educators
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I had the wonderful opportunity to be interviewed on the Autism Live Show to discuss the impact Light It Up Blue has had on our autism community every year on World Autism Awareness Day on April 2nd. During the interview I discussed 5 ways you can Light It Up Blue for the big day and
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In 2011, we founded the organization KFM Making a Difference with the hopes of helping individuals with special needs across the lifespan. With that one of our missions was to help give scholarships out to individuals with autism to pursue college. Since KFM was founded we’ve been able to give out 13 scholarships for adults
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“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill Last week as part of The College of New Jersey’s Spread The Word to End The Word Week I discussed my experiences growing up being called the word “retarded.” Spread The Word which started in
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I had the awesome opportunity recently to be a guest speaker at The Hudson County Boys & Girls Club to spread awareness for the 1 in 68 who have autism in our community and the 1 in 45 who have autism in New Jersey. In my presentation I discussed my early childhood growing up with autism and
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On March 11, 2013 I started working full time at Autism Speaks as their Social Media Coordinator. During that time I’ve been able to see amazing progress within the organization. As an disability advocate and public speaker, being able to work with such a great group of people each day has truly been a blessing. In
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This guest post is from Mandy Farmer, a blogger/author/advocate who writes for the blog From the Bowels of 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.
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70 million individuals have autism worldwide. Because of this, in 2011, Kerry started “KFM Making a Difference” an organization that helps provide scholarships for adults with autism to attend college. Help support the cause today and “make a difference” in the lives of those with autism.
70 million individuals have autism worldwide. Because of this, in 2011, Kerry started “KFM Making a Difference” an organization that helps provide scholarships for adults with autism to attend college. Help support the cause today and “make a difference” in the lives of those with autism.
