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First Openly Autistic Florida Attorney, Haley Moss, Honored at Charity Gala: ‘The Hopes of so Many Rest on Her’

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By KATHERINE HIGNETT, NEWSWEEK When she hadn’t spoken by the age of three, doctors told Haley Moss’s parents she had autism. In January, twenty-one years after her 1997 diagnosis, she was sworn into the Florida Bar as its first openly autistic member. On Saturday, local autism charity Unicorn Children’s Foundation declared her a Youth Ambassador in recognition of […]

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Crestline teachers on administrative leave after video of student being dragged

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Zach Tuggle, Telegraph-forum, Reporter OHIO–She took her son back to school on May 8 at the start of the next week. A few hours later, she received a call saying “that Corbin had been having a rough day and was hitting, kicking and biting his teachers and that he needed to come home.” “I was at […]