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  2. Growing need. Glaring gaps. Why mental health care can be a ...

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    Between 2020 and 2021, the number of California children and teens served by the state developmental disability system who were deemed to have "complex needs" — a state term for those who needed ...

  3. List of autistic fictional characters - Wikipedia

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    2020 Elle The Leap Cycle: Patience Agbabi England [220] Big Ben 2020 Vivy Cohen Get a Grip, Vivy Cohen! Sarah Kapit [y] USA [221] 2020 Keedie Darrow A Kind of Spark: Elle McNicoll [z] Scotland: Adapted into the 2023 TV series of the same name. [223] Addie Darrow Elinor Fraser 2020 Erin Please Don't Hug Me: Kay Kerr [aa] Australia [224] 2020 ...

  4. Autism-friendly - Wikipedia

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    Teachers give autistic students extra time to answer when they ask them a question. Autistic children take time to process information but they are listening and will respond. Schools dedicated to being autism friendly, like Pathlight School in Singapore, designed their campus to offer students "dignity" in an autism-friendly environment. There ...

  5. Autism in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The January 2020 Pixar short film Loop by Erica Milsom, featured a non-verbal autistic teenage girl. A Kind of Spark was a book for children about an autistic girl, released by British author Elle McNicoll in 2020. In 2023, the BBC released a TV series based on it.

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    The story has touched some other parents of autistic children, we know from the comments. Obviously, not everyone who has a nonverbal child is going to experience the same breakthrough.

  7. 'I don't want him to go': An autistic teen and his family ...

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    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.

  8. NEXT for AUTISM - Wikipedia

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    NEXT for AUTISM is a non-profit organization founded in 2003 to address the needs of autistic people and their families. The organization was founded by Laura and Harry Slatkin and Ilene Lainer. One of NEXT for AUTISM's most well known accomplishments was opening the first charter school in New York to exclusively serve autistic students. [1]

  9. Aspergirls - Wikipedia

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    Shana Nichols, the author of Girls Growing Up on the Autism Spectrum, said that it is an "excellent read" as well as a "celebration of the culture of AS womanhood." [9] Nichols also said that Simone writes with "passion, honesty and truth". [9] The book won a gold medal for the Sexuality/Relationships category in the 2011 IPPY Awards.