Good Day! Here is today’s Autism News Digest for today, Thursday, April 13, 2023.
Acceptance and Awareness
- Michigan shedding light on Autism Acceptance Month
- MAYOR FOUTS ISSUES PROCLAMATION DESIGNATING APRIL 2023 AUTISM AWARENESS AND ACCEPTANCE MONTH IN THE CITY OF WARREN
- Autism Transit Project expands to four more cities
- Sesame Place Philadelphia celebrates Autism Acceptance Month
- City of West Hollywood Recognizes April as Autism Acceptance Month with Free Film Screening of ‘Boys Don’t Wear Dresses’ on April 15 at 7 p.m.
The Victimized
Awesome Advocates
- Student develops device to help those with autism
- 10 disabled- and neurodivergent-owned small businesses worth supporting
Advocacy Corner
- As someone with autism, I would like to love Autism Awareness Month — but I can’t
- Firefighter teaches first responders ways to interact with people with autism
- Targeting The Gut To Treat Irritability Associated With Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Black, queer and neurodivergent in tech: How one advocate is creating safe space for intersectionality
On The Beat
Educational Block
- Port Richmond teen with autism found safe after being missing for days when dropped off at wrong bus stop
- Field trips become learning tools for North Allegheny autistic support and life skills support students
- Family wants Gwinnett County principal to resign, charged after 9-year-old’s leg broken
- Boy’s mother says child’s naked walk down hallway put principal on administrative leave