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Little Friends: Thoughts About Autism
Over the past several days, it has been interesting to be involved with an organization that serves children, adults, and their families dealing with...
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Little Friends: April Is Autism Awareness Month
The month of April is Autism Awareness month, and April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day. The theme for calendar year 2025 is “Celebrate...
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Little Friends: Illinois Independent Living Center To Merge With Little Friends… and Other Things of Interest
Above / In late February, folks at Little Friends, Inc., were preparing for the 48th Annual Gala Auction, commemorating the first 60 years of...
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Little Friends: Learning More About Autism and Females
About two years ago, Little Friends initiated an agreement with Northwestern University’s Research entity involved with studying communication with the idea of creating an...
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Little Friends: Announcing the Chicago Chapter of Haape – Helping Autistic Adults Perform & Excel
For the past several years, I’ve had the privilege of being a member of the Board of Directors for an organization founded in Southwest...
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Little Friends: Why What We Do Matters
In early November, several supporters came to Little Friends to join us at our 1965 Society dinner. Created with the intent of saying “thank...
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A Look Into the Future for Little Friends
One of the privileges I have is having the opportunity to let our community know what is coming for Little Friends. There's so much...
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Little Friends: Behavioral Health is Something We Must Deal With
In late September, I was fortunate enough to attend an Executive Leadership retreat in Gettysburg, Pa. It was my first visit to this area...
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Little Friends: Autism CARES Act – new amendment hopes to provide new funding and research
Every day when we get our daily news, we can’t help but hear about different programs and funding coming from our federal government. One...
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Little Friends: ‘Reduce the Wait Project’
This past month, the Little Friends Board of Directors meeting was held at Northwestern University. One of our board members, Dr. Molly Losh, is...