• Rent is due and many struggle to pay amid virus outbreak

    Rent is due and many struggle to pay amid virus outbreak

    Apr 01, 2020 01:37 PM EDT

    Ruqayyah Bailey's life had balance — so important with her autism — before coronavirus. She was going to college and was a part-time cafe cashier. She couldn't wait for the Special Olympics in March, to run and compete in long jump and shot put. But the virus closed the ...

  • School shutdowns raise stakes of digital divide for students

    School shutdowns raise stakes of digital divide for students

    Mar 30, 2020 07:10 PM EDT

    ... 54, said earlier this month. Thompson, who cannot work because of health issues, lives with her 21-year-old son, a district student with severe autism who attends Martin Luther King High School. She believes they would also need a Chromebook and perhaps a printer, so her son, who has ...

  • The switch to remote learning could leave students with disabilities behind

    The switch to remote learning could leave students with disabilities behind

    Mar 24, 2020 07:48 PM EDT

    ... Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, in an email to Stateline. About 6.7 million public school students, or 4.6% of all public school students, have a disability, according to the latest federal data. Conditions range from autism, deafness and developmental delays to specific learning disabilities such as dyslexia.

  • FDA bans shock device used on mentally disabled patients

    FDA bans shock device used on mentally disabled patients

    Mar 04, 2020 07:56 PM EDT

    ... have been used by only one place in the U.S., the Judge Rotenberg Educational Center of Canton, Massachusetts, a residential school for people with autism and other psychiatric, developmental or mental disabilities. School administrators have called the shocks a last resort to prevent dangerous behaviors, such as head-banging ...

  • Her son's language disorder inspired this cutting-edge art exhibit

    Her son's language disorder inspired this cutting-edge art exhibit

    Feb 18, 2020 11:25 PM EDT

    ... heat map of areas that are particularly active for some kind of process. Jeffrey Brown: In 2018, before the artists got to work, curator Sarah Schleuning brought them together with scientists and medical researchers who study brain function, autism and dementia and much more. Dan Krawczyk was one of them.

  • How vaccine hesitancy is contributing to deadly measles resurgence

    How vaccine hesitancy is contributing to deadly measles resurgence

    Feb 13, 2020 11:35 PM EDT

    ... by the science. Andriy Cherenkov (through translator): No one is showing the other side. There are many harmed children, for example, my nephew. He has autism. Hari Sreenivasan: Pediatrician Anna Kukharuk says that idea changes quickly after exposure. Anna Kukharuk (through translator): Some people say that measles is a children ...

  • UK's health chief slams Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand

    UK's health chief slams Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand

    Jan 31, 2020 10:26 PM EDT

    ... vaccination rates, first prompted by skepticism about the vaccine suggested in a discredited scientific study in a 1998 medical study that linked the shot to autism. A spokeswoman for Goop said the company “takes efficacy and product claims very seriously" and noted it has a legal and compliance team that ...

  • Evelyn Yang details alleged sexual assault by doctor

    Evelyn Yang details alleged sexual assault by doctor

    Jan 17, 2020 05:18 PM EDT

    ... speak out after seeing the positive reception she and her husband had been getting on the campaign trail by being open about their son's autism. "Something about being on the trail and meeting people and seeing the difference that we've been making already has moved me to share ...

  • Behind the troubling rise of uninsured American kids

    Behind the troubling rise of uninsured American kids

    Dec 23, 2019 11:40 PM EDT

    ... No, not the phone. Sarah Varney: Heather Hantz says her son's struggles intensified after he was cut from Medicaid and missed five months of autism therapy. Last summer, Hantz called the state Medicaid office to change her mailing address and found out the state of Tennessee had canceled Harrison ...

  • We read these 29 books in 2019. You should too

    We read these 29 books in 2019. You should too

    Dec 10, 2019 10:46 PM EDT

    “NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity” by Steve Silberman I’m FULL of feelings and cannot recommend the book I’m finishing right now enough. It’s called “NeuroTribes” by Steve Silberman. It is the most thorough, understanding, accurate and good-hearted explanation of the ...