PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Nicole Cervantes says her son with autism used to bang his head so hard, his forehead was sphere-shaped.
Months after she started giving him cannabis compound CBD, she says her son’s behavior changed.
“He has been able to focus more,” Cervantes testified at a
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COVENTRY, R.I. (WPRI) — First responders in Coventry are reviewing their protocols after a 13-year-old boy with autism got behind the wheel of an ambulance and crashed it into an embankment Thursday night.
According to the Coventry Police Department, officers were trying to calm down the boy, who has ADHD and
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BATON ROUGE, La. (CBS) — A Louisiana woman was brought to tears after her father captured a heartwarming moment between a store employee and her little brother while shopping at the
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NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) – More than half a million teens and young adults with autism will enter adulthood in the next decade according to the Department of Health and Human
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UXBRIDGE, Mass. (WPRI) – Uxbridge police have filed charges against three people after an autistic man was shot with a BB gun.
Matthew Conrad was struck in the side with a pellet Wednesday while he was walking in his neighborhood; three people driving past in a vehicle allegedly verbally harassed
UXBRIDGE, Mass. (WPRI) — An Uxbridge man with autism was left with a large welt after police said he was struck by a pellet from a BB gun.
Matthew Conrad said he was walking around his neighborhood when three suspects allegedly accosted him.
“He said these kids kept driving by
PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) – A 5-year-old boy with autism was rescued from the Blackstone River in Pawtucket.
Police said officers were called to the area of School Street around 6:30 a.m. after the boy was reported missing.
While searching for the child, a kayaker called police, alerting them to a young
