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    May 25, 2013 |Story| South Bend Tribune
  1. Failed the test, but graduating anyway

    South Bend Tribune
    More than 2,000 local students are graduating from high school in the coming weeks. If this year's class is like recent ones, more than one in 10 graduates has not met one of the state graduation standards. Nonetheless, those students will be handed...

    Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Students, Teaching and Learning, Lawyers

  2. Feb 1, 2013 |Story| AP Broadcast
  3. Negotiators talking to Ala. captor through pipe

    <span style="font-size: small;">MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) &mdash; Speaking into a 4-inch-wide ventilation pipe, hostage negotiators tried Thursday to talk a man into releasing a kindergartener and ending a standoff in an underground bunker that stretched into its third day.</span>
    MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — Speaking into a 4-inch-wide ventilation pipe, hostage negotiators tried Thursday to talk a man into releasing a kindergartener and ending a standoff in an underground bunker that stretched into its third day. The man...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Trials, Autism, Social Sciences, Culture

  4. Jan 16, 2013 |Story| WSBT-TV
  5. Two South Bend police officers suspended, one may be fired after gas station prank

    <span style="font-size: small;">SOUTH BEND &ndash; A South Bend police officer disciplined for punching an inmate at the St. Joseph County jail is in trouble again.&nbsp; This time, the interim chief is asking the Public Safety Board to fire Patrolman Theo Robert for interfering with an internal investigation.&nbsp;</span>
    WSBT TV
    SOUTH BEND – A South Bend police officer disciplined for punching an inmate at the St. Joseph County jail is in trouble again.  This time, the interim chief is asking the Public Safety Board to fire Patrolman Theo Robert for interfering with an...

    Tags: Arts and Culture, Social Sciences, Culture, Politics, Government

  6. Nov 26, 2012 |Story| WSBT-TV
  7. Disabled parents face bias, loss of kids: report

    Millions of Americans with disabilities have gained innumerable rights and opportunities since Congress passed landmark legislation on their behalf in 1990. And yet advocates say barriers and bias still abound when it comes to one basic human right: To be...

    Tags: Career and Workplace, Civil Laws, Physical Disabilities, Behavioral Conditions, Justice and Rights

  8. May 6, 2012 |Story| South Bend Tribune
  9. What's to become of Prader-Willi adults?

    South Bend Tribune
    When doctors first were coming to grips with the syndrome defined by an unstoppable urge to eat, those whose chromosomes created that urge rarely lived long enough for others to worry about what would happen to them as adults. With slow growth, low...

    Tags: Diabetes, Mental Health, Autism, Genes and Chromosomes, Health

  10. May 13, 2012 |Story| South Bend Tribune
  11. 2k walk to fulfill teen's wish

    <span style="font-size: small;">Mom beamed proudly as Christen held a sign spelling out her upcoming&nbsp;walk to shed light on homeless military veterans.</span>
    South Bend Tribune
    Mom beamed proudly as Christen held a sign spelling out her upcoming walk to shed light on homeless military veterans. “This is big,” Eileen Sullivan said in a low tone watching her 14-year-old daughter pose for photos. “This isn&...

    Tags: Family, Autism, Camp Lejeune Water Contamination, Veterans Affairs, Mortgages

  12. Jun 11, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune
  13. 12 years for man in Highland Park rape

    Ten days after the birth of his first son, a man from Zambia was sentenced to 12 years in prison today for the 2011 rape of a learning disabled woman in Highland Park.
    Special to the Tribune
    Ten days after the birth of his first son, a man from Zambia was sentenced to 12 years in prison today for the 2011 rape of a learning disabled woman in Highland Park. Nsoni Mpulamasaka, a 27-year-old who lived in Waukegan while earning a master’s...

    Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Punishment, Lawyers, Services and Shopping

  14. Jun 8, 2013 |Story| Hartford Courant
  15. READER SUBMITTED: Easter Seals Capital Region And Eastern Connecticut Receives $2,500 Grant

    Windsor
    Easter Seals Capital Region and Eastern Connecticut is pleased to announce that it has received a $2,500 grant from Farmington Bank Community Foundation, Inc. to support the expansion of their School-to-Work Transition program. The Farmington Bank...

    Tags: Muscular Dystrophy, Students, Parkinson's Disease, Autism, Teaching and Learning

  16. Jun 8, 2013 |Story| Herald Mail
  17. With combined 96 years of service, three teachers to retire from Wash. Co. Job Development Program

    If you want to know what working with hundreds of students challenged with various developmental or learning disabilities over the past three to four decades has meant to Nina Clopper, Betty Schriver and Margie Wolverton, you just had to see them on stage at a recent graduation.
    julieg@herald-mail.com
    If you want to know what working with hundreds of students challenged with various developmental or learning disabilities over the past three to four decades has meant to Nina Clopper, Betty Schriver and Margie Wolverton, you just had to see them on stage...

    Tags: Consumers, Food Industry, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Allegany County

  18. Jun 10, 2013 |Story| Hartford Courant
  19. Achievement First Pledges To Do Better With Disabled Students

    A new federal civil rights agreement aims to get better and more appropriate services for children with disabilities who have been continually suspended or excluded from class at Achievement First Hartford Academy Middle School for disciplinary reasons.
    The Hartford Courant
    A new federal civil rights agreement aims to get better and more appropriate services for children with disabilities who have been continually suspended or excluded from class at Achievement First Hartford Academy Middle School for disciplinary reasons....

    Tags: Legal Service, Autism, Education, Schools, Middle Schools

  20. Jun 13, 2013 |Story| Hartford Courant
  21. Jeannette Walls' Visit Among R.J. Julia Events

    Jeannette Walls, the journalist whose 2009 memoir "The Glass Castle," about growing up poor with brilliant but neglectful parents, has been a New York Times bestseller for five years, has written her first novel, "The Silver Star" (Scribner, $26). It's about a young girl who has to learn to fend for herself and her sister when their mother takes off to "find herself."
    The Hartford Courant
    Jeannette Walls, the journalist whose 2009 memoir "The Glass Castle," about growing up poor with brilliant but neglectful parents, has been a New York Times bestseller for five years, has written her first novel, "The Silver Star" (Scribner, $26). It's...

    Tags: Customs and Tradition, Arts and Culture, Music, Tehran (Iran), Ulcerative Colitis

  22. Jun 4, 2013 |Story| Reuters
  23. Thinking differently: Autism finds space in the workplace

    Some call it neurological diversity, others see it as autism's fight back. People diagnosed as "on the spectrum" are suddenly in demand by employers seeking a competitive advantage from autistic workers more used to being considered disabled than special.
    Reuters
    Some call it neurological diversity, others see it as autism's fight back. People diagnosed as "on the spectrum" are suddenly in demand by employers seeking a competitive advantage from autistic workers more used to being considered disabled than special....

    Tags: Career and Workplace, Autism, United Kingdom, Employment, Asperger Syndrome

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