GREAT BEND, Kansas — Barton County Sheriff's officials are on the lookout tonight for 11-year-old Ryan Durland.
Durland disappeared after 4 p.m. in Twin Lakes area in Great Bend.
Barton County dispatch tells KSN the boy is autistic.
He is 4 feet 8 inches tall and weighs about 90 pounds. He was last seen wearing an orange and white shirt, blue jean shorts, and yellow cropped shoes.
If you have seen him, you are asked to call Barton County authorities immediately.
ARVADA, Colo. -- The search continues Tuesday for a missing 10-year-old autistic girl from Arvada.Kristina Vlassenko was last seen in the area of 58th Avenue and Miller Street just after 3:30 p.m. Monday.Police said Kristina has limited speaking ability and is from Russia.
Members of the Arvada Police Department canvassed the area Monday night in an effort to determine where Kristina may have gone, but there were no signs of the girl, said Arvada police spokeswoman Susan Medina.Several members of the volunteer Arvada Search Team were called to look for Kristina but have been unsuccessful in locating her.Kristina is equipped with a LifeTrak tracking system; however, the device has not yielded any results thus far, police said. The device is not GPS-based but tracks via low frequency radio signals, Medina said.
GPS Trackers Help Parents Find Children: MyFoxAUSTIN.com
New GPS tracking devices may help parents keep an eye on children that have a tendency to wander away such as children with autism or other disabilities.
The devices, like the ones made by LOK8U give parents a feeling of calm if their children to wander away.
An autistic man missing from his Paeroa home since last night has been found safe and well - 20km away.
Those who don't believe that autism can be a deadly disorder, who believe that wandering from home and drowning is not a problem that should be associated with autism, will want to skip reports of yet another death by drowning of an autistic child that wandered from the safety of his home. This time the drowning occurred in Cushing, Oklahoma.
The evidence gathered does not justify the filing of criminal charges, said Lee and Cushing Police Chief Terry Brannan in a prepared statement. The evidence indicated the drowning was an unfortunate accident, Lee said.
Blake Murrell died April 19. His body was found in a pond at a Cushing park hours after he was reported missing from his home nearby.
Police investigated the death in part because Murrell was left unattended for an hour and a half the morning he went missing.
As the school year draws to a close, most of us with kids start thinking about the needs associated with a child's transition to summer, especially when it comes to the issue of summer safety. With autistic children, this can mean much more than the typical preventatives of starting a sunscreeen routine, teaching water safety and discussing stranger danger. More than ever, parents, educators, advocacy organizations, law-enforcement and the technology industry are realizing the urgent need for programs to help keep kids with autism safer.
Wandering and drowning are leading causes of death for children with autism, who often have limited communication abilities, impulsive behaviors and an impaired sense of danger. Research confirms that drowning is the leading cause of death among autistic children and and an autisitc child is more than twice as likely to drown as a typical child.
More at http://www.care2.com/causes/health-policy/blog/summer-safety-for-special-needs-kids/
Half of children with autism are prone to wandering, sometimes for hours, a dangerous behavior pattern that can start before kindergarten, a national survey has quantified for the first time.
The extent of the wandering phenomenon was revealed in a survey of 856 parents whose children have been diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder.
Half of the respondents reported their children not only have wandered from home but were gone long enough to raise alarm.
Conducted by the Interactive Autism Network, an online autism research project overseen by the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Md., the survey is the first to attempt to quantify the problem. The institute is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University.
Two out of three parents reported their children had a “close call” with a traffic-related incident. One-third said a child nearly drowned. Fifty-eight percent reported wandering as the most stressful of all autism-related behaviors.
On April 19, the body of Blake Murrell, a 4-year-old with autism who had wandered from his home in Cushing, Okla., was found in a pond.
In 2010, 10 children with autism died after wandering off, according to the Krieger institute.
The body of Adam Benhamama — a three-year-old with a mild form of autism who has been missing since April in Laval, Que. — has been found in the Mille-Îles River on the north side of the city near Terrebonne.
The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders among British adults in a population-based survey was about 1%, researchers said -- closely matching rates seen recently among British and U.S. children, but contradicting suggestions that the incidence has risen dramatically over time.
The brains of children who have autism spectrum disorder are larger than those of other children, a difference that seems to arise before they are 2 years old, according to a new study.
An incident over the weekend shows the importance of firefighters’ other public safety roles, including searching for missing children, Fort Wayne Fire Department officials said.
Fort Wayne firefighters on Sunday morning found a boy whose mother got a scare when he ran from his home on the 1900 block of Greentree Court.
The boy’s mother said she was upstairs getting ready to visit a friend when she heard the back door slam and the boy’s younger sibling yelling for her, according to a news release provided by the fire department. She called 911 at 10:56 a.m. when she realized her son, who has autism, had run from the house.
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