Autistic Society

Today the Sunday Mail is proud to launch our biggest appeal ever to build a school for all children with autism in Scotland... brick by brick.
We want to raise £3 million for a new purpose-built centre at Struan House.
For 25 years, the school in Alloa has been caring for the thousands of Scots children with autism....

Executives for SOS Children's Village in Lockport are considering a program to care for autistic children.
"Right now, no one is serving that population," said Robert Ochenkowski, chief executive officer of SOS Children's Villages Illinois.
The nonprofit foster-care organization provides a permanent home for children who cannot return to their biological parents and have little chance of being adopted with their brothers and sisters....

Parents of autistic children who attend South Elementary School worry what the move will do to their children.
Six-year-old Dylan survives on order, structure, and consistency. He follows the exact same routine day after day. "I go through great lengths to keep these routines, and to keep it secure and solid because that equates happiness with these children...

Gregory Blackstock says he speaks 12 languages and is happy to prove it, bellowing greetings in a rapid succession of diverse tongues. Not only does he have perfect pitch, he can play any instrument he picks up but prefers the accordion, because it's...