Calkins: RFK said kids with autism will never hold a job? Don’t tell this Memphian.
Kim Jameson is a Memphian who founded a program at Christian Brothers University to help people with autism succeed not just at college but in life.
Topic: autism
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May 2025
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April 2025
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Missing 5-year-old boy found dead
A 5-year-old boy with autism who went missing Wednesday afternoon was found dead Thursday, according to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
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December 2023
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Children’s therapy clinic founder now serves the community she grew up in
LaTeasha Gaither-Davis founded Therapeutic Focus, which has a new 2,500-square-foot clinic in West Memphis, in 2011. As a child, she and her family struggled to find the services she now helps to provide.
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May 2023
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Students experience autism obstacles through Rotary Club gift
Part of the Rotary Club funds raised by the Collierville Balloon Festival are being used to help Hernando High students experience the obstacles of autism.
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June 2020
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Calkins: The hardest Father’s Day of them all
Pete Wickham should be taking his son, Matt, to a Redbirds game today. But Pete was diagnosed with a brain tumor and Matt — who is autistic and intellectually disabled — is locked down with COVID-19. Somehow, this very difficult Father's Day has become a reminder of what it's all about.
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March 2020
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Calkins: There was a Selection Sunday show! (Brought to you by Owen, a 9-year-old boy with autism)
Owen Dowdle, 9, is a boy on the autism spectrum whose whole life revolves around sports. He couldn't bear the absence of a Selection Sunday show — so he broadcast one himself.
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August 2019
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UTHSC researcher suspects autism, schizophrenia tied to brain circuitry
New UT researcher receives $1.53 million grant for work in autism, schizophrenia.
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