Special Needs: Last News

Colin Farrell is opening up about his son’s rare neurogenetic disorder. The 48-year-old recalled the moment James was diagnosed with Angelman syndrome when he was just 2 1/2 years old.“One of the characteristics of Angelman syndrome is outbreaks of laughter,” the Irish actor told People in an interview published on Thursday.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Comedian Matt Rife has ignited controversy with his Netflix special “Natural Selection,” which launched Nov. 15 on the streaming service. The special kicks off with a joke about domestic violence.

in an Instagram Story on Monday. “Here’s a link to my official apology.”The link, which read “Tap to solve your issue,” brought users to a site that is dedicated to selling special needs helmets.

Inspectors have criticised Oldham’s services for children with special needs for ‘unacceptable’ waiting times and years-long delays which are ‘negatively impacting’ youngsters’ wellbeing.

KFSM. “I didn’t have an answer for my son.”Their son said he had been wrestling and roughhousing with another boy, and that the teacher had encouraged the other student to use the slur against him.The Stepps had more questions about the incident, so they went to the Talihina Elementary School principal, the superintendent, and the teacher for answers.Amber Stepp says she recorded a phone conversation with the teacher in question, playing the recording for KFSM.In the recording, the teacher is heard saying, “Two of the boys were wrestling with each other, and one of them started yelling, saying, ‘He’s touching me, he’s touching me,’ and I said, ‘Yeah, when he does that, yell “f** alert.”‘”The Stepps say they were shocked by the teacher’s behavior.“I never expected it to happen to anyone, let alone my own child,” Jonathon Stepp said.

Sherri Shepherd is opening up about her bond with her son, Jeffrey. The daytime talk show host took to Instagram on Tuesday to share a photo of her and Jeffrey, writing that every time she's near him, «my heart bursts with joy.»«I didn't want to move to NY to do this talkshow [sic].

Plans to build a £13m school for more than 200 children with special needs have been lodged.

School buses for students with special needs have been suspended as operators cancel their Manchester council contracts due to rising costs. Seven routes which serve schools in the city have been not been running since the Easter holidays – and they will not resume before the summer term ends.

A woman who works as a school bus driver and an on-campus security employee at a school for special needs children has been arrested for allegedly providing fentanyl to kids on campus. Her husband, who also lives on the school grounds with her, has been arrested in the investigation as well.

's Mohamed and Yve aren't seeing eye to eye about what life will be like for them now that he's moved to America from Egypt. On Sunday's episode of, while it was clear that the couple had plenty of physical chemistry, Mohamed was taken aback that Yve wasn't catering to him like he expected.Mohamed is 25 years old and began a relationship with 48-year-old Yve when he slid into her DMs.

The West Lothian Special Needs Children’s Taxi Outing is back this year for its fourth event after being cancelled for two years.

A Scots teacher who allegedly dragged a P2 pupil with special needs along the floor faces being struck off.

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Middleton - has gone ‘above and beyond’ for them during the pandemic, and cannot praise it highly enough.

Sia is opening up more about the decision to cast Maddie Ziegler as an autistic teen in her upcoming movie, Music.

cocaine.Photos of the toy elves with straws up their noses and lines of pretend cocaine were posted on a staff WhatsApp group.The images showed the elves surrounded by beer cans and cigarette packets on desks at Braidburn School in Edinburgh.But the gag blew up after a pupil support assistant at the school complained that the pictures were “disgusting”.Robert Sinclair, who reported the festive spoof to the council’s whistleblower hotline, said his job was terminated as a result.The 40-year-old said senior staff at the primary school in the city’s Oxgangs area tried to laugh it off as a “joke”.And now Robert, who has a close relative who has battled cocaine addiction for many years, said his contract isn’t being renewed after he refused to

Ryan Tubridy was left deeply moved after an emotional interview with a mum of a teenage boy who is preverbal.

A drunk clubber punched a woman outside a city centre bar after making “disparaging” remarks about a man with special needs.Paul Richardson had twice been refused entry to the New York New York nightclub in Manchester’s Gay Village on the night of March 3, 2019.Richardson, 42, was drunk and had been turned away because of his level of intoxication, Manchester Crown Court heard.But he hung around outside the Bloom Street bar in the hope that bouncers would change their minds.Prosecutor Mr Wilcox said a fellow clubber stepped outside the bar at around 10pm to smoke a cigarette.She was out that night with a friend and her friend’s brother who has “special needs” and a mental age much lower than his actual age, Mr Wilcox said.Though the victim

YouTube stars Myka Stauffer, 32, and her husband, James Stauffer, 34, are under fire for a May 26 video in which they confessed that they “rehomed” their adopted son Huxley. The four-year-old, whom the Stauffers adopted from China in 2017, has autism. The YouTubers, who have four other biological children, explained to fans that they didn’t understand what it would be like to raise a child with “special needs.” The shocking announcement came via an emotional video on Myka’s popular YouTube channel, which you can watch above. Here’s what else you need to know about the controversy, and Myka herself.