Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
An autistic child. The struggle for services. The 911 calls. This is the harrowing story of how one mom scrambled to get help for her son and keep her head above water.
Almaliti was born in Chicago, Illinois. [2] Almaliti's public autism advocacy began when she challenged her insurer, [3] Kaiser, which had refused to pay for treatments for her son's autism. Almaliti won the suit, and then worked to change California law to require health insurance to cover autism treatments.
The Disability Day of Mourning is observed annually on 1 March [1] to commemorate disabled people who were murdered by their caregivers, especially their parents. First observed in 2012 and propagated by disability rights organizations such as Not Dead Yet and the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, the day aims to bring attention to the issue of filicide of disabled children and adults and the ...
Illinois mom Ali Harris asked the village of South Roxana to post a street sign warning fast drivers about her 6-year-old son, Kyren, who has autism.
He fully relied on his parents and caretaker, but Steele alleged that in the last 18 days of his life, he was left alone for 356 out of 425 hours. All the while, his mother pocketed $2,000 from a ...
The Autism Society of America (ASA) was founded in 1965 [5] by Bernard Rimland [1] together with Ruth C. Sullivan and a small group of other parents of children with autism.Its original name was the National Society for Autistic Children; [4] the name was changed to emphasize that autistic children grow up.
COVENTRY — The town's schools are mourning the death on March 18 of school psychologist Louis F. Ruffolo, who was involved with many students with special education plans over the last two decades.
In 1965, Rimland founded the Autism Society of America (ASA), a parent advocacy organization, to "work on behalf of autistic children and their families at local, state and national levels." [ 6 ] In 1967, Rimland left the ASA to establish the Autism Research Institute (ARI), a San Diego–based non-profit organization dedicated to researching ...