Community Of Caring

It’s every parent’s nightmare, your child has disappeared from sight.  Maybe you were checking prices and your toddler slipped away, or maybe your daughter saw a dog outside and figured out how to open your latch.  It only takes seconds for a child to escape your care.   For most parents it’s a brief crisis, ended

A job gives you identity.  Independence.  It provides an important link to health insurance and benefits and it leads to social relationships. Yet meaningful employment is basically out of reach for many with Autism.   A 2021 study published in the National Library of Medicine found that adults with an autism diagnosis have an unemployment rate of

Support the autism community!  Like every other teen and young adult, youth with autism or ASD need and want jobs, a social life and affordable and inclusive housing.  Offer a job.  If you have a position available contact your local Autism support agency, odds are they offer job placement services and even support staff to

For over 50 years we’ve celebrated Autism Awareness Month in April.  But that’s changing.  In Delaware they celebrate Autism Acceptance and Inclusion Month while the Center for Disease Control shortens it to Autism Acceptance Month.  Autism Speaks adds in the rest of the globe to celebrate April as World Autism Month.   What’s in a name? 

You passed your first tests at one and at five minutes old.  For over seventy years newborn babies are given the APGAR test as part of an evaluation of their health.  The 1-minute score determines how well the baby tolerated the birthing process while the 5-minute score tells the health care provider how well the

The film Hidden Figures not only introduced us to the pioneering black women mathematicians of NASA, it introduced us to the huge support team behind each mission, a group that included women engineers since the beginning of the program.  In 1939 Kitty O’Brien Joyner, the first woman to graduate from the University of Virginia’s engineering

Imagine a magazine editor whose goal was to teach and inspire you to live the life you want.  Imagine she had recipes, projects and advice on entertaining.  Ideas to help you celebrate the holidays and housekeeping tips.  An editor whose impact defines the way we celebrate holidays and weddings today. If you thought of Martha

Following Black History Month and now into Women’s History Month, let’s look back on a big moment in aviation, the first ever all female, all African-American commercial flight crew.  On February 12, 2009 Atlantic Southeast Airlines flew from Atlanta to Nashville under the control of Captain Rachelle Jones Kerr, First Officer Stephanie Grant and Flight