Posted by Michelle Gonzalez on Sunday, December 18th, 2011
We have some sad news to share, following up on a previous story we wrote about last week. According to WCSC in South Carolina, Toby, the autism service dog who had been taken from a family’s front yard, has turned up dead in the same location. Kelly Nolan, the mother of the child who the [...]
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Posted in Autism and Animals, Autism and the Media, Autism News
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Posted by Susan Moffitt on Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
The recent trends in autism news have been dispiriting, to say the least. The persecution of parents with autism, a community rejecting a group home for young adults with autism, the harrowing encounters between individuals with autism and police and rampant wandering cases leave me needing a break from the doom-and-gloom. A story out of [...]
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Posted in Autism and Animals, Autism News, Autism Therapy
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Posted by Susan Moffitt on Friday, June 24th, 2011
At a time when the heartbreak of wandering is ever present in the news, the battle for having autism service dogs in school rages on. Service dogs are known to calm anxious children, disrupt their tantrums, aid in making transitions and keep them safe from traffic and the hazards of wandering. Yet despite the existence [...]
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Posted in Alabama, Autism and Animals, Autism and the Law, Autism Services
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Posted by Michelle Gonzalez on Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
As the 135th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show wraps up in New York City, it has been difficult not to reminisce the many, many hours spent with our son watching dog show reruns on Animal Planet over the years. His affinity for animals (dogs in particular), has always been very strong and may have been [...]
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Posted in Autism and Animals, Autism News, Autism Support, Autism Therapy, Commentary, Families, Temple Grandin
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