Autism

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January 22, 2015
theGRIO REPORT - Special needs teen Dylan Johnson has had a passion for vacuum cleaners since he was just 2.…
May 23, 2014
E! Online - Toni Braxton reveals that she believes God gave her 11-year-old son, Diezel, autism as punishment for her…
March 28, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — A tragic confluence of errors including a school safety agent being distracted by a hug and…
January 22, 2014
OPINION - In these days of zero tolerance and the criminalization of schoolchildren, the police will quickly throw a child…
January 21, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City medical examiner's office says that human remains found along the East River…
January 18, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — The parents of an autistic New York City teenager missing since October are holding on to…
January 17, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — Police were investigating whether human remains found along the East River could be those of an…
October 20, 2013
HARLEM, NY -- HARLEM, NY -- Al Sharpton joined the search for a missing autistic boy Saturday...
October 17, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - In the nearly two weeks since a New York City boy disappeared from his school, neighbors and…
October 12, 2013
NBC New York - Family members of Avonte Oquendo, a 14-year-old non-verbal autistic boy who vanished a week ago from…
October 9, 2013
NBC New York - The family of a missing 14-year-old mute autistic boy is intensifying their search for him after…
July 21, 2013
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Rapper J. Cole is apologizing to those with autism and their families for an offensive lyric...
May 23, 2013
NBC Southern California - The National Institutes of Health awarded UCLA a grant to study the genetic causes of autism…
May 22, 2013
NBC LATINO - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 88 children in the United States…
May 17, 2013
TODAY - This is a story about a boy, a bear and bathroom tissue. When a giant corporation took time…
July 18, 2012
NEW YORK - A grateful mother thanked the hero bus driver who caught her 7-year-old daughter in a terrifying three-story…
July 9, 2012
Rapper 50 Cent has apologized for his insensitive tweets about autism and deleted them from his Twitter timeline. Several people
July 6, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Rapper/actor 50 Cent is currently receiving backlash from fans, after tweeting an insensitive comment about autism...
June 25, 2012
DALLAS FORT-WORTH - Devin Ross never thought a life in the pool would be his ticket to success...
February 28, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) - Early diagnosis is considered key for autism, but minority children tend to be diagnosed later than white…