Sports star Travis Rudolph joins autistic boy for lunch The mother of an autistic child said she was moved to tears when a visiting American Football star joined her son, who was eating alone at school. Travis Rudolph, a wide receiver for Florida State, was visiting a school in Tallahassee on Tuesday when he saw […]
How a cat enabled an autistic six-year-old to communicate Submitted by Mark Six-year-old Iris Grace spent the first half of her life trapped in her own world, barely communicating. Her mother Arabella Carter-Johnson explains how her cat, Thula, transformed the family. Six-year-old Iris Grace spent the first half of her life trapped in her own […]
Iris Grace: Mother of six-year-old girl acclaimed for her beautiful paintings on new book about autism, family life and Thula the therapy cat ‘A positive, inspiring but realistic story of an incredible journey’ By Roisin O’Connor .6-year-old Iris Grace / Photo by Arabella Carter-Johnson Arabella Carter-Johnson In 2014 a five-year-old girl called Iris Grace began […]
