Breaking Free: Therapeutic Riding Center is a nonprofit dedicated to providing therapeutic horse riding services to children who are physically and emotionally challenged. They currently serve children in Muskingum and Guernsey counties in Ohio. ICare4Autism recently got the chance to speak with Center Director, Linda Lake. Throughout the conversation, Lake told ICare4Autism about the roots [...]
Christa Colquhoun is the mother of a 5-year-old autistic boy named Luke, and they reside in Stone Oak, Texas. Luke has issues with wandering off and running away, like many children with autism do, when his mother takes her eyes off of him. Luke would often run out of the front door of the house [...]
The Ecole Sainte-Bernadette School in Moncton, Canada has recently been criticized for their treatment of special needs children, after a grandmother removed her autistic grandson from the school. Ecole Sainte-Bernadette, like all other schools in the district, has “isolation rooms” or “time out rooms” that are used when children are being overly noisy and distracting [...]
Dr. Ditza Zachor, a researcher at Tel Aviv University’s Sackler School of Medicine, has recently published a study that raises questions regarding the link between in vitro fertilization and autism. In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a treatment for those who are infertile, and is the procedure where egg cells become fertilized while outside of the [...]
What if someone told you that there is something that can immobilize your child from doing such basic things as socializing, eating and even learning to go the restroom on their own? What if then they told you that it was a disorder that affects one in 91 children, one in 58 boys? You ask [...]
Scarlett, was born in 2000 in Canada. After Scarlett’s birth, her mother, Peng went into a deep depression. Given that Peng also has bipolar disorder, she and her ex-husband decided that they were unable to care for Scarlett given Peng’s state. They decided that it would be best if Scarlett went to live with Peng’s [...]
The Wyndham Hotels & Resorts chain has made history by being the second hotel in the United States to install autism-friendly rooms. Two months ago, the Wyndham Garden Hotel in Austin, Texas, made their five new autism-friendly open for reservation. Tony Sahyoun, the hotel’s general manager, said that the idea was sparked after he had [...]
Seven autistic students in Pennsylvania faced abuse from their special education teacher in 2001-2003, and now their families are being issued $5 million dollars from the federal lawsuit. Their teacher, Susan Wzorek, was charged with reckless endangerment and spent six weeks in prison in 2005. She worked at Clarks Summit Elementary School, but was employed [...]
The police department in Weston, Connecticut arrested Stacy Lore earlier this week. Lore was the proprietor of Spectrum Kids LLC, an organization that provided services to autistic children in various school districts throughout Connecticut. However, Lore did not hold the degrees and certifications that she claimed to; meaning that she did not hold the requirements [...]
A six-month-old boy was suffocated by his own mother on June 1st, because she feared that he could be autistic. Stephanie Rochester, a 34 year old mental health counselor, believed she saw signs of autism in her 6-month-old child Rylan. She said that she wanted to enjoy her life with her husband, but knew that [...]
