She and Kerri Miller talked at the Fitzgerald Theater about how autism benefits society, why early intervention is important, and how brain imaging has changed the way she thinks about her condition.

Hundreds of autism sufferers are being recruited by a German software designer to train as high tech IT experts.

SAP said it wants to recruit up to 500 sufferers because ‘they think differently from others’. An autistic person is more likely to be of average or above-average intelligence and possess ‘certain skills’ that the company wants to tap into.

The firm employs more than 65,000 people globally. By 2020 the aim is for one percent of these to be autistic, it announced from its headquarters in south-western Germany.

Stephanie Eppert was just months away from getting the home her family wanted.

With Habitat for Humanity volunteers preparing to break ground on her home July 30, she would have been able to move out of her rented condominium on the city’s east side and into a home specially built for her three children who have autism.

But a deadly fire in her condo early Monday cut that dream short. Two of Eppert’s children, ages 8 and 10, were killed in the two-alarm fire that ravaged the unit.

Registered nurse Michael Garritson, 62, was convicted last month of two felonies and four misdemeanors for abusing Jamey Oakley, 24, at his family’s Valley Center home.

Vista Superior Court Judge Blaine Bowman sentenced Garritson to three years of probation and a year in jail. He had faced four years in prison.

The second caregiver, Matthew McDuffie, 28, was convicted of two misdemeanors. Bowman sentenced McDuffie to a year in jail.

When Angela Clarke’s son Tim told her it hurt to swim, her heart sank.

The teenager from Aberdare loved swimming and the water helped ease the pain of his scoliosis – a curvature of the spine.

Tim, 17, who also has autism and dyslexia, has worn a back brace all day from the age of 12 to ease his scoliosis.

A l’heure où de nombreux parents s’interrogent sur l’orientation scolaire de leurs enfants, deux mamans dont les enfants sont porteurs d’autisme nous expliquent que, pour elles, ce questionnement est un combat quasi-quotidien.

Véronique est la maman de Rémi, il a 11 ans et entrera en 6e à la rentrée prochaine, enfin elle l’espère. Pour Jennifer, maman de Kyllyan, 7 ans, c’est la rentrée en CP qui se prépare. Toutes deux n’ont qu’une obsession que leurs enfants « puissent suivre un parcours scolaire ordinaire ».