The Center for Autism and Related Disabilities at the University of Miami - Nova Southeastern University (CARD) hosted its annual fundraising gala, Tropical Nights, at the InterContinental Miami Hotel. Tropical Nights, was held on Saturday, April 27, at the InterContinental Miami Hotel. CARD celebrated its 20th Annual Tropical Nights fundraiser, along with CARD’s 30th Anniversary. Looking
The Dec. 6 Arc Tank event saw the Mount Pleasant-based Nflyte — an all-in-one practical life skill app for autistic adults — win the lion s share of $247,500 distributed among
The Autism Society of America has announced that the cast and crew of the new Broadway musical, How to Dance in Ohio will be honored with The Daniel Jordan Fiddle Foundation Leader in Adult Autism Award for 2023 on December 1st, 2023, at the Belasco Theater in New York City.
i really need these people and i can t have them anymore. reporter: as an adult, eric will be eligible for social security. and he ll be able to apply for services funded by medicaid. but his parents have been warned that those programs will not be tailored to autism or build on the skills eric has mastered at the rebecca school. we just can t cut off educating and teaching and supporting people when they age out of their school program. reporter: linda walder is the executive director of the daniel jordan fiddle foundation a non profit think-tank devoted to studying the issues around adults with autism. because autism prevalence rates have more than doubled over the last decade, she says an estimated half a million young people with autism will age out in the next ten years. and it s a tsunami of children who are aging to adult life. do you stop having autism when you turn 21?