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
Advocacy Corner
The Victimized
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