Families don't gather at a Lakeland hair salon for haircuts. They come for stories read by Momma, a drag queen dedicated to teaching children and young adults about the acceptance of others and themselves.
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The Alachua County Library District recently expanded its collection of sensory toys, making them available at all 12 of its branches. These toys are designed to help children on the autism spectrum and others.
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Blue pumpkin buckets may be making appearances in neighborhoods this year, alongside the traditional orange ones as a way to make trick-or-treating easier for children with autism spectrum disorder.
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The 62-year-old John Watzke oversees one of the few drive-in theatre sites left in the country.
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The event, put on by the Centers, aimed to bring awareness to the many children in Marion County who struggle with mental health issues and disabilities.
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But how did nine children in Gilchrist County get access to two 3D printers? Our story explores the answer.
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HOPE stands for HOrses Helping PEople and is an equine-assisted therapy facility located in Alachua County.
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A list of the laws and projects that legislators representing local counties were able to get through the Florida legislature in 2018.
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Each scholarship costs $4,000, which is then matched by the state.
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The Meachums founded Xtraordinary Joy, a non-profit group, in 2016 "to raise funds that will promote clinical interventions, therapies and care opportunities for children afflicted by never-before-studied X chromosome deletions."
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