The Emporia Gazette

Mother raising awareness for autism

He was able to start at Maynard about six weeks before his 3rd birthday. Early intervention is vital and I'm very thankful that we were able to get him in so quickly. He attended the last part of the school year last year, summer school, and now he's in the 3 year old program.
He was diagnosed two days after his third birthday.
He is doing some therapy (what we can afford out of pocket) and attending school. I can't say enough good things about the progress he's made! But he still needs more help outside of the school system. Experts suggest 25 hours a week of Applied Behavior Analysis therapy to help these kids become functional adults. ABA is 25 dollars an hour. There is a small window of time for the therapy to help. I only hope and pray to find a way to get this going for my son.

January 26, 2011 at 4:37 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Mother raising awareness for autism

My son has been in the school system since he was 2. He has phenomenol teachers, speech therapists, and paras. I would never downplay what they do. On the other hand, I'm not going to leave my son's autism solely in the hands of the school district.

January 26, 2011 at 4:13 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Mother raising awareness for autism

Thanks to the Baker family for sharing their story, and thank you to the Gazette for writing it. My 3.5 year old son has autism.
Awareness and resources are sorely lacking in our area.
I'd like to see an article written on the autism waiver in Kansas. This waiver provides free (much needed) therapy to children with autism. Only 40 children are currently being helped by the autism waiver due to a lack of funding. My son is number 252. He will likely age out of the waiver before receiving any services. This is truly a shame. Children not receiving these early interventions run the risk of not becoming productive, let alone functional, adults.

And if anyone sees my child having a tantrum at a store, know this... he's not a bad child, he has autism. I am not a bad mother, I'm a mother dealing with a child with autism. Compassion is appreciated, staring is not.

And I'll take some girl scout cookies!!!

January 26, 2011 at 10:44 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Eric Hendrickson sentenced to 32 months

It's called archiving. Every newspaper archives.

June 6, 2010 at 3:11 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Meece pleads to amended charge

mrscobra

My point in asking what he was stabbed with is this: if he was stabbed with something other than a knife I would think that it would have been a slow and painful death. It also would have given the young lady time to snap out of whatever had taken over her and call someone to help him and maybe he wouldn't be dead.

My deepest sympathies go to Ricky's family. And I can't apologize for not having sympathy for the accused.

November 30, 2009 at 10:19 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Meece pleads to amended charge

What did she stab him with?

November 27, 2009 at 12:14 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Meece pleads to amended charge

I'm SO with you biscuitboy! I don't know the situation. What kind of kitchen utensil was used? If it were a knife wouldn't they have just said that it was a knife? Seems to me like it would be a slow and painful death. I can't believe a sentence of 5 to 6 years is sufficient for robbing someone of their life.

November 27, 2009 at 10:29 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Parole for Lorna Anderson Moore

It is amazing that you can have a hand in killing two people and serve such a short time in prison.

Good for the one child of hers that doesn't support her getting out of prison.

November 10, 2009 at 10:58 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Help needed to find missing man

I'm also a little confused why there doesn't seem to be more of an outpouring of support to find this man. Do people think he's on the run or what is the deal? Are there fliers around town? Has anyone set up a stand for volunteer searchers? I think the previous poster was right on the money in saying that if this were a woman it would be a statewide or perhaps nationwide story.

October 30, 2009 at 4 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )

Police chief responds to shooting rumors

I would like to know why there are differing dates of death. I heard that Omar died on Friday September 11th. It has been reported that he died Sunday night.

September 17, 2009 at 3:43 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )