• Minnesota lawmakers pass police accountability package

    Minnesota lawmakers pass police accountability package

    Jul 21, 2020 05:45 PM EST

    ... of life. It makes changes in arbitration rules affecting police unions. Officers will get more training on dealing with people with mental health issues and autism. The measure also creates a new advisory council for the state board that licenses officers. “This is a really a great bill, but it ...

  • Remembering 5 people lost to coronavirus

    Remembering 5 people lost to coronavirus

    Jul 10, 2020 10:25 PM EST

    ... was fiercely devoted to his wife of 57 years, Peg, their four children and two grandsons. The family proudly marched in the city's annual Autism Speaks walk, in support of his grandson James. John was 80 years old. Vanee Sykes believed in the potential of every formerly incarcerated woman ...

  • Analysis: Retractions and controversies over coronavirus research show the scientific process is working

    Analysis: Retractions and controversies over coronavirus research show the scientific process is working

    Jul 09, 2020 05:01 PM EST

    ... 13 days after it was published. By contrast, it took 12 years for the Lancet to retract the fraudulent article that incorrectly claimed vaccinations cause autism. It is not yet known whether these papers involved deliberate scientific misconduct, but mistakes and corrections are common, even for top scientists. For example ...

  • How distance learning illuminates disparities among students and teachers

    How distance learning illuminates disparities among students and teachers

    Jun 23, 2020 10:25 PM EST

    ... like. Elizabeth Wayland Seal: I live in Rhode Island. I have four kids. The youngest is 7. The oldest is 14. Two of them have autism spectrum. Distance learning in the fall, if my 7-year-old has distance learning in the fall, I can't. He can't. I ...

  • Americans with disabilities need more support during pandemic, say advocates

    Americans with disabilities need more support during pandemic, say advocates

    Jun 10, 2020 10:25 PM EST

    ... the community of the disabled. About two years ago, the National Organization on Disability, which is basically agnostic with regard to the disability -- could be autism, could be blindness, could be Down syndrome -- I mean, there's a range of disabilities. We basically say, as part of our advocacy platform ...

  • Dozens protest in Jerusalem against police violence

    Dozens protest in Jerusalem against police violence

    Jun 09, 2020 09:33 PM EST

    ... Protesters chanted: "A violent cop needs to be in jail," and held signs with the picture of Eyad Hallaq, the 32-year-old Palestinian with autism who was shot and killed by Israeli police in Jerusalem on May 30. Similar protests were staged in Haifa and Jaffa, the latest in ...

  • Pandemic means Americans with disabilities aren't getting the services they need

    Pandemic means Americans with disabilities aren't getting the services they need

    May 11, 2020 10:35 PM EST

    ... really hard on her and on all of us, as her routine has just been flipped upside-down. Nicole Jorwicc: I have a brother with autism. As a family member, my brother going into the hospital right now is our greatest fear. That is because we don't know the ...

  • 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 EST

    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 EST

    ... 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 EST

    ... 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.