A St. Lucie County teacher who let her kindergartners decide whether an autistic child could remain in class is returning to the classroom. ...more

November 11, 2009

Shawna Needham is willing to travel all the way from Ruskin to Palm Harbor twice a week to have her 4-year-old son, Ryken, cared for by a local chiropractor who uses an alternative approach to treating autism and its related ailments. ...more

November 29, 2008

Instead of packing it in, PACK is hoping businesses and individual donors will make up for the loss of a $50,000 state grant for an annual summer camp for youths with disabilities. ...more

May 13, 2008

Instead of packing it in, PACK is hoping businesses and individual donors will help make up for the loss of a $50,000 state grant for an annual summer camp for youths with disabilities. ...more

May 10, 2008

A Seffner woman left her 12-year-old autistic child alone with her other child, a 10-year-old, while she went to a bar Tuesday night, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

December 12, 2007

TAMPA - A boy found wandering a busy street in the middle of the night with a bag of Chex Mix in his hands has been returned safely to a group home. A Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy spotted the child, whose name has not been released, wandering in a pair of boxer shorts near Fowler Avenue and 22nd Street at 2:30 a.m. and put him in his patrol car. ...more

September 6, 2007