Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk guest-hosted the legendary comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) on the American NBC channel. During the show, he admitted that he had Asperger's syndrome, and with three words brought down the cryptocurrency rate ...
American Bill Peters learned at the age of 8 that he had autism. Now 37, Bill is fully adapted to social life. Two years ago, Peters came to Ukraine and began counseling parents of children with autism. Bill Peters realized as a child ...
The parents of a 5-year-old boy with autism described how their son is being punished for hugging his classmate. They were told that he, playing with his peers, "crossed the line of what is permitted." Nathan is a 5-year-old student at East Ridge Elementary. The director of the educational institution says that ...
The FBI in North Carolina announced on Wednesday the body of 6-year-old autistic boy Maddox Rich, who disappeared into the park on September 22. The child's body was found around 13:00 in Gastonia, about 4 miles (6 km) from the park where he disappeared, ...
Sef Scott, a graduate of Plano Senior High School in Texas, is autistic and rarely speaks, but he was able to surprise everyone and give a speech at his graduation. In it, he focused on the unexpected and on the need to challenge expectations ...
In Russellville, Arkansas, police saved the birthday of 15-year-old autistic boy Bradley Butler by throwing an unforgettable party, writes CNN. The boy's father Ben Butler spent a long time preparing the holiday and sent out invitations to his son's friends long before the date of the event. But on the appointed day, only two came ...
Two teachers at Hope Academy in Louisiana were fired after it was revealed that they bullied a boy with autism in school. Milissa Davis hid the recorder in the backpack of her 12-year-old son Camden after she noticed disturbing changes in ...
Autism in the United States has already reached epidemic proportions—more than 2% of America's future generation lives with this disability. At the same time, autism is not in a hurry to be called a disease, and most cases can be corrected with the help of attention, patience and special therapy. ForumDaily figured out how they live...
Hailey Sorenson, an 18-year-old autistic girl from Bangor, Maine, who celebrated her birthday alone last year, received more than 10 postcards thanks to her cousin's message on social media. Rebecca Guilford from Massachusetts told a sad story on June 6 about ...
A new study of American parents shows that one in 45 children in the United States between the ages of three and 17 has some form of autism. This is significantly higher than the official figure that one in 68 children in the United States ...