WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. (CBS/WKMG) Winter Springs police confirmed Tuesday morning that missing 11-year-old Nadia Bloom has been found alive. A pastor at Metro Church in Winter Springs, where Nadia’s family attends, said a church member conducting a search for the girl located her sometime Tuesday morning. She was covered in mosquito bites, but appeared to [...]

Gail and Gordon Wyatt have turned to technology to help keep their son safe. Ian Wyatt is seventeen years old and suffers from severe autism. The Wyatt family recounts a few of the numerous occasions that Ian has wandered off. Once they say they found him on the side of a highway which always has [...]

  Will changing the diagnosis criteria make diagnosing the disorder easier for clinicians? As of February 2010 the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has been discussing the possibility of changing the diagnosis of Aspergers. The plan is to simplify the current category defined as Pervasive Developmental Disorder.  Those who meet criteria to be diagnosed with Aspergers [...]

The National Emergency Numbers Association is offering a conference on April 19, 2010 ( NJ NENA Conf. – Atlantic City, NJ ) with instructor Christy Williams, ENP. The seminar is geared towards better preparing those who operate emergency call centers when handling calls involving missing children. The NENA says the information exchanged in that initial [...]

Dementia patients will be tracked by GPS devices whenever they leave their homes under a new scheme to rescue them when they get lost, The Times has learned.  The device is to be fitted into the jewelry or clothing of elderly patients, whose movements will be monitored by satellite.   They will have access to a [...]

The US House of Representatives passed the Senate version of health-care reform. “The Autism Society is pleased that Congress took a step in the right direction late last night” said Lee Grossman, President and CEO of the Autism Society, “but we have much more work to do to ensure that families affected by autism have [...]