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Marking World Autism Awareness Week 2021 Posted: 4:22 pm April 1, 2021
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A SERIES of events have been planned to mark World Autism Day in the local area tomorrow (Friday).
World Autism Week 2021 is taking place all of this week, with the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh to be lit up blue for the event.
The Cedar Foundation supports people living with disability, autism and brain injury.
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Roisin Bowden, Right4U project officer at the Cedar Foundation in Omagh, said it was important to highlight the work being done for adults and children living with autism.
“It has been fantastic to have the support of Fermanagh and Omagh District Council in celebrating Autism Awareness Day and to highlight the work of the Cedar Foundation for adults and children living with autism in the area,” Roisin said.
AN 18-YEAR-OLD Enniskillen woman is well on the pathway to recovery following her diagnosis with an autoimmune condition last Summer. Caitlin Love spent two and a half months in a medically induced coma in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast following a health scare that led to the young woman being diagnosed with Anti-NMDA Autoimmune Encephalitis. Caitlin spoke to the Impartial Reporter following the marking of World Encephalitis Day this Monday, February 22. Bravely describing her experience of the condition, she said: “The best way to describe it is inflammation of the brain. There is an infection somewhere on your body and it has transferred up to your brain.