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... 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 ...
... tried with no success. While she received the first $1,200 stimulus check allocated by the CARES Act, her 20-year-old son, who has autism and had not held a job before, did not. She said she was “dumbfounded” to see Congress going on holiday break “when bread lines ...
... job. Paul Solman: Instead, Madfis is doing something less rewarding financially, but far more emotionally, running a nonprofit to teach jobs skills to women with autism, like her American Girl-loving daughter Izzie. Woman: I'm learning how to accept feedback. With customers, I learn how to control my temper ...
... and some family caregivers to hear what their past few months have been like Matt Berzok. My son Ben is a 16-year-old with autism. When the pandemic started, Ben went from being fairly structured and programmed to all of a sudden having no structure. It was pretty anxiety ...
... in the U.S. They said Assange's mental health deteriorated while he took asylum inside the embassy and that he was diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. His legal team argued that Assange would very likely face solitary confinement in the U.S. immediately that would put him at ...
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