autism

The Trump Administration is promoting an unproven link between Tylenol and autism, urging pregnant women not to take the painkiller. On this week's 51%, we speak with Dr. Stacy De-Lin, associate medical director of Planned Parenthood Hudson Peconic, about what expectant mothers should know about the drug, and why she feels it's still safe to prescribe. We also learn about what the end of funding for SNAP-Ed in the federal budget means for hunger programs across the country, and those who benefit from them.

SUNY Cobleskill is receiving a grant to support a career training program for neurodivergent students.

Sheriffs in New York state are promoting a new tool they say will make traffic stops easier for neurodivergent drivers.

Marian Schembari was 34 years old when she learned she was autistic. By then she had spent decades hiding her ticks and shutting down in public wondering why she couldn’t just act like everyone else.

New York state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie continued his statewide tour today with a stop in Schenectady County.

(Airs 04/05/24 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: the late state budget will be even later, we’ll take a look at the some of the sticking points, we’ll have full coverage of the coming total eclipse impacting the North Country, and April is Autism awareness month, and we’ll introduce you to 16-year-old with Autism and his family.

A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds 1 in 36 8-year-olds in the U.S. had autism in 2020, up from 1 in 44 two years before – part of trend dating back several years. The CEO of a disability services provider in New York’s Capital Region says the report should be a call to action.

When Kate Swenson’s son Cooper was diagnosed with severe, nonverbal autism, her world stopped. She had always dreamed of having the perfect family life — watching her boy play at baseball games, walking him down the aisle. She hadn’t signed up for life as a mother raising a child with a disability. But through hard work, resilience and personal growth, she would come to learn that Cooper wasn’t the one who needed to change. She was.

These were the first words twenty-five-year-old Emily Grodin ever wrote. Born with nonverbal autism, Emily’s only means of communicating for a quarter of…

Wildwood in Schenectady and Latham, New York, provides supports and services to people of all ages with conditions described as developmental…