A charity that provides service dogs free of charge to people with autism has said it is desperately seeking new volunteers ...

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April is National Autism Awareness Month, and it’s also a time of transition. Students and recent graduates, including neurodiverse teenagers, begin to seek places in the professional world. In the ...

Two years ago, Dawn Turnage’s 18-year-old son Justin walked away from a local pool and into a Best Buy at the Waterford Lakes Town Center, dripping wet and wearing only his underwear. Turnage called ...

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (WCIV) — Symptoms related to autism have been around for centuries, and they've often been misdiagnosed. The idea of autism is still fairly new. The first diagnosis came out in the ...

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A Phoenix-area incident last year drove home the need to continue training first responders on interacting with people with autism and other developmental disabilities. A Buckeye police officer ...

The "All-Abilities Training Program" provides government workers, businesses, first responders and more with ways to create supportive environments for people with autism. "People in the community ...

John Montell “Monty” Mitchell was reeling last year. He heads into next year, though, freshly certified as a paramedic, committed to fatherhood and nurturing a dream that ends in the letters “M.D.” ...

The programme aims to help nurses better understand the needs of individuals with disabilities when interacting with them or ...

$25,000 REWARD IF IT LEADS TO AN ARREST. WELL, OMAHA POLICE HOST FIVE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES FROM NEBRASKA AND IOWA FOR AUTISM TRAINING. THE WORKSHOP FOCUSED ON HOW TO GAIN A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF ...

Sgt. Greg Howarth smiled as he turned his iPhone, which had a picture of his wide-eyed, floppy-eared dog, toward 14-year-old Joey Fernie. "Aww, she's adorable!" Fernie said in response. The two were ...