Sheila Medlam has taken her fight to the Internet to collect enough signatures and support to send the Mason Alert petition to lawmakers to promote a national registry for individuals with special needs.
 PLEASE SIGN AND PASS ALONG:
Mason Allen Medlam Foundation  [You can add your signature by clicking on the link]
The family hopes to collect enough [...]

PARENTS at a school for children with special needs are angry that it has missed out on vital funding which could save its pupils lives.  All they want is a fence – not to keep people out but to stop the children from getting out and into danger.
The group, from Glenvale Special School at Narara, [...]

As parents isn’t this our greatest fear? 
In Orlando, Fla. – A 5 year old mildly autistic boy was found wet and wandering alone one mile from his home after being placed on the wrong school bus.  The boy’s mother said her son should have been dropped off  at the apartments where she lived, but in fact was dropped [...]

 
AWN Radio welcomes Tanya Bloom and her daughter Nadia. It was only 4 short months ago when Nadia got lost in a swamp located in the woods near her family’s Florida home. Miraculously, Nadia survived 4 days and 4 nights in an area known to have alligators. Both Tanya and Nadia will share their family’s [...]

Many assisted living facilities portray themselves as being capable of attending to all types of residents, including those who suffer from Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia. However, there is a big difference between the skilled nursing that is provided at a nursing home versus the non-skilled service that is provided at assisted living facilities. Nursing homes [...]

About 350 people banded together in Laurens County, including law enforcement officials, firefighters and residents to find a missing autistic boy who had wandered away from home. Matthew Branum, 8, was found in the woods about three or four miles from his home in Rentz, Georgia officials said Wednesday. Laurens County Sheriff Bill Harrell said [...]

Sheila Medlam surrounds herself with photos of her family. In almost every frame you can see the smiling face of her son Mason, who was autistic. She cries quietly as she remembers the last night she fell asleep holding Mason’s hand. “I don’t want any other mother to endure what I’m enduring,” she said. “It’s [...]

It has happened to us all. During one time or another, in our lives as parents or caregivers, we have all had the terrible misfortune of losing our child or loved one, if only for a minute. We become distracted, unfocused for the briefest of moments and we take our eye off the ball. Whether [...]

LifePROTEKT wants to thank the AWAARE Collaboration on working to prevent wandering incidents and deaths within the autism community.   As we all know, it is important to familiarize yourself with the dangers of wandering, as well as share this type of  information with friends, family and members of the community. Prevention materials, including the information found on [...]

Have you ever accidentally turned onto a wrong street while driving?  Have you ever become disoriented in a large building or lost site of your friends in a very crowed place?  Was there, for a brief instant, an overwhelming feeling of panic?  Your heart races as that primitive basic instinct, fear, wells up inside you.  [...]