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Acres Project, an autism nonprofit organization based in Pennsylvania recently gave me the opportunity to speak at their first-ever Spotlight on Autism event at Mount Nittany Middle School near Penn State University. My talk called “Defining Autism: From Nonverbal to National Speaker” was given in front of a crowd of over 50 people including parents,
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As a motivational speaker for the past six years now I’ve had the opportunity to read some amazing works by authors within our community. In one of my talks I give called “Read All About It: Autism in the Media” I talk about the fact that there are over 1,600 paperback books focused on the topic
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There will be two back-to-back episodes of PBS Kids hit show Dinosaur Train that will focus on autism. The episodes titled Junior Conductor’s Academy: Part One and Junior Conductor’s Academy: Part Two will air on Wednesday, April 6th and Thursday, April 7th at 11:30 AM ET/10:30 AM CT. In addition PBS partnered with The Center of Disease
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Thanks to Tamara Laine from Chasing News, a television program that airs on WWOR-My9, WNYW-Fox5 and WTXF-Fox29, I was able to share a little bit about my story of growing up with autism. Of the highlights from the interview included a discussion of the importance of the transition to adulthood in our autism community. In the
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Way to go Sesame Street! If you haven’t heard yet they were just nominated for a Daytime Emmy for their Autism initiative! This video below which was released on March 30, 2015, featuring Julia, a muppet with autism, was voiced by a young girl on the autism spectrum as well. We work with the entertainment
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Jane Wants a Boyfriend, an Indie Feature starring Eliza Dushku and Louisa Krause which looks at autism & love is out today (March 25, 2016) in select theaters in 10 cities and available to watch on all major VOD networks including iTunes, and On Demand. This film has a special meaning for me because I
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Light It Up Blue, the global autism awareness initiative started by Autism Speaks celebrates its 7-year anniversary this year since it began in 2009 on World Autism Awareness Day to shine a light on our autism community. With that here are 7 buildings that you should get excited for that will be going blue this
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As reported by Disability Scoop, PBS will debut a new show called “Mack & Moxy” on April 1. Each week there will be a new episode that focuses on a wide array of issues and topics happening in the world for kids. Owen who is a 11-year-old with autism will be featured on their program
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To everyone who will Light It Up Blue, Wherever you are on April 2nd, you can make a huge difference for our community… How? By turning the world BLUE! Wear BLUE! Light your homes BLUE! Light your buildings where you work BLUE! Be all the BLUE you can be! For me going BLUE for autism is a
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To all our media outlets, In a few days it will be April. April is Autism Awareness Month, and April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day. My name is Kerry Magro and I’d like to join with you to help shine a light on the 1 in 68 individuals who currently are diagnosed with autism
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