A young shoe store employee is being praised for his patience and compassion after he helped a distraught customer and her daughter who has autism.
The boy is now being invited back to Boston Symphony Hall next season to meet the conductor and watch their comeback performance.
In addition to the shoes being released in a soothing range of colors, they have also done away with shoelaces and complex attachments.
This young mother had never heard her 13-year-old daughter's voice before they sat down to watch their neighbor's dazzling light show last week.
Not only did the crew reschedule the family's visit with a complimentary tour and special needs accommodations, the conductor gave the boy a special watch.
This 21-year-old man with autism asked his mother a question for the first time in his life—and the internet responded with overwhelming kindness.
Jonathan Pinkard was finally able to receive a heart transplant thanks to a compassionate hospital nurse who volunteered to adopt him.
Joseph Beer, 15, has spent lockdown in the town of Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, England, cleaning up road signs and hedges.
4-year-old Jaxson Maples, who has autism, just has a very special day at his favorite store, Lowe's, with staff giving him special gifts.
Anthony Schmidt, who has autism, knows the make, model, and year of every car. He allso does amazing photoshoots with his car models.
High school graduate Daniel Marshall serves up huge smiles with customer service that includes a musical ditty with every McDonald's order.
A sister made a beautiful and helpful video for the classmates of her little brother who has autism and will be starting school.
Custodian Raymond Brown is so loved by pupils at the North Carolina high school where he works they raised $35k for him.
Juliana Fetherman's brother has autism and was lonely, due to his lack of friends—so she made an app for that called Making Authentic Friends.
Tim and Tracy Johnstone have given a new car to a family whose son with autism has been prolifically drawing the golden arches for years.
A breakthrough therapy reduced autism diagnoses in children by one-third by letting parents review bonding time back on a video.
23-year-old Sam Waldron, who struggles socially, gave the 'best best man's speech ever' and had the crowd in laughter and happy tears.
11-year-old Sanaa Hiremath, who lives in Florida, has earned a Guinness World Record for her mind-bending mental mathematics skills.
'The Backwords Dude' John Austin amazes people wherever he goes with his ability to talk backwards, and uses the app Reversercam to prove it.
Adding a shelter cat to the family can help lower stress and anxiety for children with autism; it is good for cats too say Missouri researchers.
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