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... said. Fresh on Sankara-Jabar’s mind was an April 2020 incident in which the police were called on a Black 7-year-old with autism in Washington, D.C., who had trouble keeping his mask on. Sankara-Jabar says she would prefer in-person instruction for her daughter, but ...
... we receive. Stephanie Sy: Michelle Parrish is a full-time working mother of two who lives in Washington, D.C., her son R.J. has autism and ADHD. But, early on, she says she struggled to get the right diagnosis. Michelle Parrish: The doctor who gave my son a psychological ...
... rough arrest is “not an isolated incident by any means,” Thompson said. She said she would not have thought to attribute noncompliance to conditions like autism or dementia when she was a young patrol officer. “We need to start bringing those possibilities into those ‘what if’ scenarios,” Thompson said. In ...
... Missouri," Rodriguez said in a statement. Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt said in a statement that his son, Stephen, who has a rare genetic condition, autism and epilepsy, "has shown me the inherent beauty and dignity in all life, especially those with special needs. While we're disappointed in the ...
... who are in behavioral -- who have behavioral health disabilities. That includes people in mental health crises. That includes people with dementia. That includes people with autism. And those are the kinds of interactions that probably -- we know, most of time, do not need a police response. And when you get ...
... Brangham: Scott Landes is a sociologist at Syracuse University who for years has studied health outcomes for those in the IDD community. He says people with IDD, conditions like Down syndrome, cerebral palsy, Rett syndrome and autism, often have underlying health conditions that make them more susceptible to COVID-19.
... ph). She's been unemployed, she says, for a year. She's taking care of two daughters with health needs, one of them on the autism spectrum. The other one had an injury. She says she is desperately in need of the direct payment, of the unemployment that's set ...
... The judge agreed that U.S. prison conditions would be oppressive. She accepted evidence from expert witnesses that Assange had a depressive disorder and an autism spectrum disorder. “I accept that oppression as a bar to extradition requires a high threshold. ... However, I am satisfied that, in these harsh conditions ...
... were shut down, D’Amico decided to stay home from her two part-time jobs to care for her 14-year-old son, who has autism. When he was in school, a teacher’s aide helped him stay on task throughout the day. Now, that job falls to D’Amico ...
... it is critical that the FDA does its job. So we were very clear in the article that the anti-vaxxer position linking vaccines to autism is really based on debunked science, full of conflicts of interest. You know, the issues we raised in this story have nothing to do ...
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