Emmy Award-winning Feagler & Friends is a lively, weekly half-hour television discussion of local and national issues impacting lives in Northeast Ohio. Hosted by award-winning journalist and former Plain Dealer columnist, Dick Feagler, Feagler & Friends explores the various issues behind today's news. With a changing ensemble of "friends" ranging from journalists to community and political leaders, Feagler & Friends takes on issues from many different perspectives. Always entertaining and never boring, Feagler & Friends is the program for people "in the know" in Northeast Ohio.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Topics: Health, Other
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An encore edition of Feagler & Friends

Children of Autism: One in approximately 150 children in the U.S. has been diagnosed with autism. It’s estimated half a million Americans under the age of 21 have some form of autism, a condition that tends to wall off the afflicted from the outside world. The degree of this isolation and the behaviors that result vary from person to person so each family has to learn unique ways to cope. A 2009 story in The Plain Dealer focused attention on a case in which an autistic teen beat his mother to death. The story was cautionary, but experts say it was not typical of autistic behaviors. Mr. Feagler will spend the half hour with Shari Lahm, the mother of a 16-year-old boy with autism; Dr. Max Wiznitzer, director of the University Hospitals Autism Center; Anne Davalla, program coordinator for PEP Harbor, a school for children with autism and other developmental disabilities.

The program originally aired December 25, 2009.

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