There are 5 article(s) tagged autism:

• December 2023

  • 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.

    By Aisling Mäki December 17, 2023

• May 2023

  • 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.

    By Toni Lepeska May 18, 2023

• June 2020

  • 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. 

    By Geoff Calkins June 21, 2020

• March 2020

  • 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. 

    By Geoff Calkins March 15, 2020

• August 2019

  • UTHSC researcher suspects autism, schizophrenia tied to brain circuitry

    New UT researcher receives $1.53 million grant for work in autism, schizophrenia. 

    By Jane Roberts August 07, 2019