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“She was on the bus for almost the entire school day and no one noticed until the afternoon.” This was an incident that happened to a 7-year-old nonverbal girl with autism at Beulaville Elementary School in Duplin County, North Carolina. Her mom Jaysha Gray told Witn “”Whenever you get a call saying that she’s not […]
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“Just because I have high-functioning autism doesn’t mean I still don’t deal with challenges.” Every once in a while, someone hears my story of being nonverbal till 2.5 and how, early on, I was considered by experts to be on the severe end of the autism spectrum and they ask me how today as an
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“After I turned 21 I applied to multiple places. None of them would hire me,” ABC6 – Providence, RI and New Bedford, MA News, Weather Michael Coyne, a young man with autism told this to ABC 6. His mom suggested he look at other ways towards finding employment and that started the coffee shop Red,
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Joseph ‘Joey’ Patterson who is 16 wandered away from his parents’ Wyoming home on November 10, 2019 and has not been seen since. Authorities from the Natrona County Sheriff’s Office are still on the search for him. Authorities do not suspect foul play in Peterson’s disappearance and noted that the teen, who is 5’9″ and
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“Cellphone video recorded a teacher inside the school getting upset and pushing his head back.” A special education teacher at Dania Elementary School in Florida did this to Max a 7-year-old on the autism spectrum. Max’s dad told WSVN, “To see your child actually being touched by someone in a hostile way, it made me
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Will you be tuning in? I used to be nonverbal. Today I travel the country each year educating on neurodiversity as a full-time professional speaker. I’d be honored if you would follow my journey at Kerry’s Village https://www.facebook.com/groups/aspecialcommunity/ A new Pixar short film came to Disney+ on January 10, 2020 called ‘Loop’ that featured a character
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Hey everyone. I took the time out of my schedule to do some research on this story for you to enjoy along with self-reflection of what helped me during my earliest days of nonverbal autism. I provided a few tips in the article on how you can help an autistic child who is nonverbal. You
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The majority of special education teachers I know, from either friends in the field, those who reach out to me for advice and/or those I speak with when I go speak in the schools about topics like inclusion and autism, are spectacular and truly are the backbone of our educational system. With that being said
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“We can change the world if we decide to be constructive versus bully.” An autism advocate I interviewed for a self-advocate video series a while back gave me a unique perspective into the ongoing conversation of person with autism (person-first language) versus an autistic person (identity-first language). She told me that we shouldn’t infight and
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While it’s great to see autism being spotlighted in shows like The Good Doctor & Atypical – this is only showing one end of the autism spectrum. A common concern I get from parents when they come up to me after one of my speaking events who have a child on the severe end of
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