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While people begin their holiday shopping during Black Friday and Cyber-Monday, Giving Tuesday begins the charitable season of end of the year giving for worthy causes around the world! One of those causes that needs your support with a tax-deductible donation here is our Making a Difference for Autism Scholarship Program, which helps students with autism […]
Daniel Mulligan, a 6-year-old boy with autism loves routines! One of those routines involved waiting for the trash man every Monday morning for trash pickup. Than one Monday a random act of kindness that happened to Daniel went viral… Manuel Sanchez, the Mulligan families garbage collector walked up to Daniel with a brown paper bag.
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P.J. Gialopsos who owns Little Italy Restaurante in Anchorage, Alaska, stood up for one of his employees on the autism spectrum by “firing” a customer who treated him badly. Gialopsos explained that this customer had called their employee an idiot, cursed at him and accused him of being on drugs after sending her the incorrect
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“A great deal of my inspiration to become one of the first talk show hosts with autism in the country has come from your career…” On a brand new episode of the “Different is Beautiful Show” I shared an open letter that you can watch above that I originally wrote for The Mighty about how
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Broadway actor Kelvin Moon Loh has received national acclaim for his open letter he wrote after a boy with autism interrupted a performance of “The King and I” which Kelvin stars in. The boy was shouting and one member in the audience didn’t take kindly too the interruption. Kelvin wrote in his letter “When did
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Jack Robbins is a 10-year-old nonverbal boy with autism who LOVES Katy Perry! Singing Katy Perry songs has become a part of his daily routine and helps with his therapy sessions. One song in particular that he enjoys is Katy’s hit song “Roar” which you can watch below. Way to go Jack and Katy Perry!
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To all the children with autism around the world, Hi kids, Santa here and I’m writing to you from the North Pole to tell you how excited we are that Christmas is coming! My elves are hard at work making toys and the reindeer have been preparing for our long trip around the world. I
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The idea of why our community loves Star Wars first came to my mind when I was meeting with a young boy on the spectrum and his parents. He could tell you every Star Wars character and recite the original trilogy of movies by heart (he won’t watch the prequels though if his life depended
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If you weren’t a fan of Michael Bublé before you probably will be now! Griffin who is 6 years old and on the autism spectrum absolutely loves Michael Bublé! Griffin’s aunt wrote on YouTube, “He has a passion for music, and has acquired an incredible love for Mr. Bublé. He asks for Michael throughout the
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On March 11, 2013, Autism Speaks gave me my first full-time job after receiving my Masters from Seton Hall University in Strategic Communication and Leadership. Now 2 and a half years later they have promoted me from Social Media Coordinator to Producer of Social Media and Digital Content! Working at Autism Speaks has always been
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