Technology nowadays is so omnipresent that it’s hard to imagine life without it. It streamlines our routines and helps us in ways we never imagined. One of the most heartwarming examples of this can be found in the Santa...
For parents, their child’s education is paramount. The stories of parents relocating homes and uprooting their lives to ensure a better education for their children are heartbreaking. And when these stories become a common narrative for a particular community,...
In the bustling corridors of David Lubin Elementary School in East Sacramento, an eleven-year-old boy named Alex Grievous faced the kind of challenges that many kids with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) confront – feeling different and misunderstood. But unlike...
With increasing numbers of children being diagnosed with autism, there is an urgent need for effective and scalable interventions. Enter the Early Start Denver Model (ESDM), an innovative approach to autism intervention that is making waves in the world...
WherecanaparentofaneurodiversechildinSacramentofindhelp?Do you know what resources are at your fingertips? Perhaps the most important question you can ask yourself is how to make the journey more accessible and rewarding for your loved ones. While raising children with autism can present...
The Drowning Prevention Foundation partners with the Consumer Product Safety Commission as a Pool Safely Campaign Safety Leader. Watch this video and learn how to keep children safe around pools. Follow the links below for more water safety information. Originally posted...
Over the past five years, Nevada’s primary state psychiatric hospital has put hundreds of mentally ill patients on Greyhound buses and sent them to cities and towns across America. Since July 2008, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas has...
The Interactive Autism Network (IAN), www.ianproject.org, the nation’s largest online autism research project, recently revealed the preliminary results of the first major survey on wandering and elopement among individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and announces the launch of...
Since mid-May, cases of monkeypox have been reported from several countries that are non-endemic for this rare disease, including the United States. Several cases have been reported in California, including in Sacramento County. Sacramento County Public Health continues to...
In the year (2020) about 5 percent of four-year-old kids in California received an Autism diagnosis, which is concerning compared to the CDC’s average of 2.2 percent for the same age group nationwide. Research has been actively exploring the...
