TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is conducting a death investigation after a missing 6-year-old with autism was found in a “body of water” in Brandon on Sunday. Shortly before 4 p.m., deputies and K-9 units were called to the 700 block of Kensington Lakes Circle for reports of a missing child […]
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Westford Police searching for missing 6-year-old with autism
Authorities are asking for the public’s help in finding a missing child who was last seen Sunday night. 6-year-old Zayan Mayanja is autistic and non-verbal, according to police. He was last seen around 9:15 p.m. at his home on Chestnut Road in the Nabnasset part of town wearing an orange shirt and possibly red shorts. […]
For a St. Paul gardener with high-functioning autism, a Merriam Park community garden has been his home away from home
Alex Junge yanks at the Creeping Charlie growing on the side of a garden plot overlooking Interstate 94 in St. Paul’s Merriam Park. The fast-growing weed isn’t native to Minnesota, though it’s made itself at home for centuries, he explains. Beer-drinking European explorers likely introduced the invasive pest in the mid- to late 1600s as […]
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How flights to nowhere can help ‘lessen the anxiety’ for travelers with autism
“Accessible Travel” is a six-part series focusing on the travel industry’s preparedness to welcome travelers with disabilities. If you’d like to contribute to our future reporting and share your experience as a source, you can click here to fill out this quick form. PROVO, Utah ― Breeze Airways’ flight 9951 to Provo, Utah, on April […]
Doctor said autism would foil her learning. How new Stanislaus State grad proved that wrong
For much of her adult life, Joy Silvas would say the word “confidence” to herself before stepping out to face each day. She certainly felt that confidence May 28, leaving her house to walk the stage at California State University, Stanislaus, as a cum laude graduate with a bachelor’s degree in art. Her graduation ceremony […]
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Families with autism find travel challenging, these Caribbean resorts make it easier
Beaches Resorts in the Caribbean are bringing new meaning to being all-inclusive. Like typical all-inclusive resorts, food and drinks, watersports and other activities are included in the cost, but Beaches Resorts – with two properties in Ocho Rios and Negril in Jamaica and one in Providence in Turks and Caicos – also caters to families […]
Teacher abused 2 children with autism in class, repeatedly hit 1 student, lawsuit says
A South Carolina preschool teacher abused two 4-year-old children in class, including a girl who parents say was smacked and repeatedly hit with a plastic pointer, a new lawsuit says. The girl’s parents and the boy’s mother didn’t learn of the physical attacks on their children until May 1, more than a month after the […]
Housing for adults with autism breaks ground in Epping
EPPING — Farmstead of New England is expanding its footprint, building additional “much needed” housing for people with autism and other developmental disabilities. The nonprofit, which runs a residential farm assisted living facility at Rosewald Farm in Hillsborough, broke ground Thursday on its latest project at 38 Plumer Road in Epping. The project, called Redberry […]