Good Day! Here is today’s Autism News Digest for today, Sunday, January 8, 2023

Acceptance and Awareness

• Iceland Sports Complex hosts Skate Fest for children with autism
• Playground for ‘every single body’ brings kids together
• Amway Center opens new sensory room for people with special needs
• Drag queen show starring people with Down Syndrome shocks internet: ‘What’s the target audience?’

Awesome Advocates

• France’s Macron opens up about love to autistic interviewers

Advocacy Corner

• As a psychologist with an autistic child, a new diagnostic aid leaves me conflicted

The Victimized

• Man accused of drugging, molesting teen with autism arrested

The Brilliant and Talented

• A stranger gave a boy with autism a $15,000 piano after hearing him play
• Autistic Rabbi Brutally Honest about Issues and Himself
• Overcoming ‘hard things’ one stride at a time
• Autistic kid goes to the barbershop on his own for the very first time and the internet is applauding

On The Beat

• ‘You just Tased an autistic kid, bro!’: Florida deputies use stun gun on man with autism in Cocoa, video shows
• New Year in Quebec: He says he was beaten when he was arrested

Educational Block

• Life skills teacher accused of intentional abuse