Autism News Digest – Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Good Day! Here is the Autism News Digest for Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Advocacy Corner

• What life is like for people living with profound autism
• What We Can Learn From Autistic Entrepreneurs
• ‘There’s just no options:’ Mother struggling to find care for daughter with autism
• Fayetteville bakery training neurodivergent adults to close in June
• Tips for the neurodivergent college student
• Oklahomans with disabilities face long waitlists for home and community-based services

Awesome Advocates

• Mother of child with autism shares parenting memoir

Research Developments

• Can Measuring Blinking Help Detect Autism Early?

The Criminalized

• Ocean Springs mom speaks out after adult daughter with autism arrested

Acceptance and Awareness

• Neurodiversity is Diversity: “We Need to Normalize and Humanize the Concept”

The Victimized

• Wyandotte mom jumps into river to save submerged toddler; Officers assist with CPR to help save him

The Brilliant and Talented

• Sheboygan girl, 9, is paying it forward after an autism assistance service dog changed her life. Here’s how.

Educational Block

• Changes coming to Sacramento City Unified after discrimination lawsuit settlement