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Something that has been particularly bothering me about 2-year-old Jarret Farrell and his mother being removed from an American Eagle airplane earlier this week is (according to news reports) a flight attendant repeatedly tugging on the toddler’s seatbelt to tighten it, while “reprimanding and yelling.” It’s this kind of physical—excessively physical—force that is too often […]
A story no one wants to hear about but that reminds us that you can’t be too safe and sure when you’ve got someone babysitting a special needs child with limited communication skills: C and G News reports that a 21-year-old Macomb township man, Jonathan Maltese, was allegedly caught on camera molesting two young autistic […]
5-year-old Alex Barton testified today in an internal school investigation, the CBS 12 news reports. It’s noted that Alex’s mother, Melissa Barton, “is not primarily seeking monetary damages. She wants autism awareness and training for district employees.”
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Jonathan Carey was a 13-year-old non-verbal boy with autism. He died on the evening of February 15th, 2007 while on an outing with another child from the O.D. Heck Developmental Center in Schenectady, New York. Jonathan was improperly restrained by the health worker Edwin Tirado, 35; the driver of the van, Nadeem Mall, 32, the […]
Melissa Barton, the mother of Alex Barton, who was “voted out” of his kindergarten classroom, is planning to file a lawsuit against the Port St. Lucie school district on the grounds that “‘physical and mental abuse’” were inflicted on her son.
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An editorial in today’s Palm Beach Post about 5-year-old Alex Barton being voted out of his kindergarten class quotes Michael Lannon, Superintendent of Port St. Lucie, along with more details from the police report:
After he was voted out of the class, according to the police report, Alex went to the school nurse’s office. The nurse […]
Just up on CBS are two interviews with Melissa Barton, Alex Barton’s mother, on the Early Show; the video from this morning’s show also features Dr. Jed Baker, a clinical psychologist and an expert on autism spectrum disorder behavior and education. Alex is in both videos (waving to the audience at one point, it seems). […]
Just up on the Palm Beach Post are more details about what happened last Wednesday at Morningside Elementary School in Port St. Lucie, Florida:
Wendy Portillo, a kindergarten teacher who has drawn national attention for asking her students to vote on whether an autistic boy should stay in class after he misbehaved, told police she asked […]
Wendy Portillo, a teacher at Morningside Elementary in Port St. Lucie, Florida, let her kindergarten students say what they did not like about 5-year-old Alex Barton—–after which the students voted him out of the class. Alex is in the process of being diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome and has had “disciplinary issues” at school due to […]
This past Thursday in Virginia, a 24 year old autistic man was tazered by James City County police after he was to “become unruly with employees at Wilsons Leather at the Prime Outlets-Williamsburg shopping mall,” according to the Daily Press. It was only after the man was placed under arrest and charged with […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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