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Officials said 14-year-old David Vasquez had been last seen Tuesday at 8 p.m. at an LDS Church near 1100 S. and 200 E.<br />
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“I’m very grateful to God and thankful to everyone. Everyone, thank you for helping me,” David’s mother, Adrianna Segura, said in an interview Wednesday afternoon.<br />
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Segura was in the process of posting missing fliers of her son all over Orem when she received the call that her son had been found wandering around University Mall.<br />
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“This is the greatest moment of my life, getting my son back, thank you so much,” Segura said."<br />
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Jacob Subang, an 18-year-old who suffers from autism and epilepsy, disappeared around 7:30 a.m.<br />
Police say he was found shortly before 1:30 p.m. at an apartment complex on Westwood Road, in good health."<br />
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Police Chief Buddy Williams could not confirm whether the body they found was Walker's. Police are expected to give another update on the search at 3 p.m. Friday.<br />
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Hundreds of volunteers came out to help search for the missing autistic boy. Thursday evening Williams said crews started pumping a nearby pond as part of search efforts. Friday, Williams said that's where they found the body."<br />
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<a href="http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/news/local/police-searching-9-year-old-autistic-boy/ng2NG/">Florida Missing Child alert issued for 9-year-old autistic boy | www.actionnewsjax.com</a>: "LIVE OAK, Fla. — A Florida Missing Child Alert is issued for a 9-year-old autistic boy who was reported missing early Wednesday morning. <br />
The Live Oak Police Department begun the search for Leo Walker, who was last seen at his parents' home on Duval Street around 4 a.m. He is described as 4 feet 7 inches tall. <br />
Walker was last seen wearing blue shorts and T-shirt, and did not have shoes. Officers do not know if Walker is in need of any special medication or the severity of his autism.<br />
This is an ongoing investigation. Anyone who has seen Walker is asked to call Live Oak Police Department at 386-330-3501 or 911. "<br /><br />
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News broke Tuesday that human remains from the East River <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/human-remains-at-queens-beach-belong-to-autistic-boy-at-the-center-of-a-massive-search-2014-1?utm_source=hearst&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=allverticals" style="border: 0px; color: #895eab; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">belong to an autistic 14-year-old </a>who had been missing since October — and who vanished when his teachers should have been watching him. </blockquote>
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Avonte Oquendo slipped away from school after lunch on Oct. 4, even though he had a reputation for wandering away during transitions and an<a href="http://idea.ed.gov/explore/view/p/,root,dynamic,TopicalBrief,10," style="border: 0px; color: #895eab; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">individualized education plan</a> that noted this tendency, his family's lawyer David Perecman<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/how-did-avonte-oquendos-school-lose-him-2013-11?utm_source=hearst&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=allverticals" style="border: 0px; color: #895eab; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">previously told Business Insider</a>. </blockquote>
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There is still a lot we don't know about what happened to Oquendo after he was lost and how he ultimately died. There are no obvious signs of foul play, <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/01/21/remains-found-in-river-are-missing-autistic-teen-avonte-oquendo/" style="border: 0px; color: #895eab; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">the New York Post reported</a>. We do know the teen, who could not speak, was afraid of the water, and that his parents don't know how he ended up in the river, <a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Body-Parts-Found-in-East-River-Matched-to-Missing-Teen-Avonte-Oquendo-241322861.html" style="border: 0px; color: #895eab; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Perecman told NBC News</a>. The Post also noted his remains were found with Fruit of the Loom underwear that was too large for Oquendo, leading his family's lawyer to speculate that somebody may have had the boy for a few days.</blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">A newly-launched “Lost in Public” video, produced by the Autism Research Group, demonstrates how to use rules, role playing, and praise to teach children what to do if they get lost. </span></span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><b>LOS ANGELES (Nov. 21, 2013)</b> – The </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://webmail.centerforautism.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=majV8q1gqEyxTGim5aaVN07aeib7udBIhDY1YD9ETsW-maB-xgzlhstYKbhlhSD7yU4Z0NSx9Ig.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.autismresearchgroup.org" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial Narrow;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif;">Autism Research Group</span></span></a></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> (ARG) this week launched “Lost in Public,” a five-minute video that instructs children and guardians how to use rules, role playing, and praise to teach children what to do if they become lost in a public setting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> ARG is a nonprofit organization dedicated to using science to help individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). “We study ways to improve the lives of children with autism. One way is by teaching them safety skills, such as what to do when they get lost. We also study the art of teaching – what works, what doesn’t,” says ARG Associate Scientist Ryan Bergstrom, M.A., BCBA. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">“Lost in Public” video provides an alternative to the commonly-used method of establishing a meeting spot, as a child who is lost and nervous might not be able to find the meeting spot. Instead, it teaches children to do 3 things if they can’t find their parent:</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial Narrow; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Narrow', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">In 2012, ARG published a study in the <i>Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis</i> that evaluated how rules, role playing, and praise were effective in establishing help-seeking behaviors in children with autism. “This video was created not just for families of children with autism but as a tool for all families to use in order to prevent an unfortunate and terrifying incident from occurring,” says Bergstrom.</span></span></div>
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Fourteen-year-old Avonte Oquendo remains missing two weeks after he skipped away from his Long Island City school, despite an intense search that utilized everything from volunteer posters to infrared cameras and loudspeakers blasting his mother's voice to find him. </div>
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Police said Friday morning that there have been no new developments in the search for the boy, who is autistic and cannot speak for himself. They released a new photo of the striped polo shirt he was wearing when he was last seen leaving school Oct 4. </div>
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Sixteen-year-old Charles Foster was <a href="http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/09/11/missing-autistic-teen-reunited-with-family/" target="_blank">reunited with family members Wednesday morning</a>. Police said they picked Charles up after receiving a call from a citizen who recognized the boy walking in the area of Campbell and 12 Mile in Royal Oak.</div>
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DEARBORN, Mich. (WXYZ) - Dearborn Police are asking for the public's help to find a teenager who has been missing since Saturday night. </blockquote>
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Officers say 16-year-old Charles Foster was last seen by his parents as he was walking out of the family's home in the 4600 block of Schlaff. The incident happened at around 10:45 pm.<br />
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Charles is 5'2" tall and weighs about 110 pounds. He appears much younger than his actual age. Charles has short hair and wears small frame glasses. </blockquote>
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He suffers from Autism, bi-polar disorder and mood swings. However, his family does not believe that he is a danger to himself or others. </blockquote>
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Charles was last seen wearing a beige collared short sleeve shirt with horizontal stripes, dark shoes and his glasses. </blockquote>
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Police say he has run away in the past and will frequent restaurants, gas stations or will beg for food. </blockquote>
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Anyone who has come into contact with Charles is asked to call 911 or Dearborn Police at (313) 943-2241.</blockquote>
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The 3-year-old girl wandered away from her grandmother’s home in Wareham, Mass., in mid-April. A frantic search began almost immediately, and within an hour little Alyvia Navarro was found unresponsive in a nearby pond. She was pronounced dead the next day. </blockquote>
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A month later, across the continent, a larger search unfolded over three days as hundreds of emergency service personnel and volunteers fanned out around Clearlake, Calif., looking for 9-year-old Mikaela Lynch after she vanished from her backyard. The outcome grimly echoed the Wareham search: A dive team found Mikaela’s body in a muddy creek. </blockquote>
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The two girls were the first of at least 14 children with autism known to have died this year after slipping away from their caregivers. All but one of them drowned, evidence of a fascination that many autistic children have with water. The body of the latest victim, 11-year-old Anthony Kuznia, was found Thursday in the Red River after a 24-hour search near his home in East Grand Forks, Minn. </blockquote>
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The tragic phenomenon goes by various names -- <a href="http://autismamberalert.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">wandering</a>, <a href="http://autismamberalert.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">elopement</a>,<a href="http://autismamberalert.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> bolting</a> -- and about half of autistic children are prone to it, according to research published last year in the journal Pediatrics. </blockquote>
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That would be a huge number. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated last year that 1 in 88 children are affected by autism, and a federal survey this year pegged the prevalence rate at one of every 50 schoolchildren -- more than 1 million children in all.<br />
<a href="http://www.themorningsun.com/article/MS/20130813/LIFE02/130819853" target="_blank">Wandering has led to the deaths of more than 60 children in the past four years</a>, and the fear of it can make daily life a harrowing, never-let-your-guard-down challenge for parents.</blockquote>
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"We were there four times," said Gaston McVea, who was one of the dozens of people who helped search for Kingsbury after he disappeared. "That was our central location and somehow we missed this."</blockquote>
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<span class="storyDateline">CLEARLAKE, Calif. (KGO) -- </span>There is a new lead in the case of a missing San Francisco child who disappeared from her family's vacation home in Lake County on Sunday. <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/north_bay&id=9102233" target="_blank">Mikaela Lynch, 9, has a severe form of autism</a> so severe she neither speaks nor responds.</div>
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The boy ran from his home on Taylor Drive, which is in the Summit area.</div>
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A silver lining to Ryan's ordeal is that he is now the first Wellingtonian to own a special tracker designed for people with autism.</div>
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The Wandatrack is a small device that emits a personalised signal.</div>
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It has been designed to give peace of mind to families of people with dementia, autism or other conditions that cause them to regularly wander off.</div>
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Ryan's device resembles a pendant but they can also be made to look like a watch or key chain.</div>
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Harmer said the technology had been available in Wellington for only a few months but he hoped the devices would become commonplace.</div>
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"It reduces our search time massively," he said.</div>
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"[On average it takes] 20 searchers up to eight hours, but this would see one to two people searching for maybe an hour."</div>
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The devices cost $280 and replacing the battery every six months costs $30.</div>
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The recently established Wellington Wander Search Charitable Trust administers the devices and raises funds to cover their cost.</div>
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They also ask for a small monthly donation from the user.</div>
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Peel said he had looked for something similar in China and other parts of the world without realising he could source one at home.</div>
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"One of the good things about this bizarre situation, that I'd never want to find myself in, is Ryan now has a Wandatrack," he said.</div>
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David Soto, an Elsinore High School student who has the mental capacity of a 10-year-old, left a note for his family Wednesday afternoon telling them he was going treasure hunting, a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department news release said. He had last been seen wearing a pirate Halloween costume around his home in the 35300 block of Chloe Court about 4 p.m.<span style="font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></blockquote>
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City officials rallied dozens of volunteers Thursday morning to help sheriff’s deputies comb the city for David, Councilwoman Bridgette Moore said. That afternoon, David rang the doorbell of a house on Cameo Lane, which dead ends at the rugged foothills on the west side of Wildomar.</blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: RobotoRegular, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;">An 11-year-old boy who had autism died when he was hit by a sports utility vehicle as he tried to cross the Interstate 10 service road in west Houston Wednesday night.</span><br />
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The boy has special needs and was in the care of his father when he wandered away as the father was doing laundry, said <a href="http://www.chron.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news%2Fhouston-texas&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Estella+Olguin%22" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Estella Olguin</a>, spokeswoman for state <a href="http://www.chron.com/?controllerName=search&action=search&channel=news%2Fhouston-texas&search=1&inlineLink=1&query=%22Child+Protective+Services%22" style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Child Protective Services</a>.</div>
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"He was being watched," Olguin said, "but he just wandered away. It's tragic."<br />
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A missing autistic teen from Edmonton was found dead in the North Saskatchewan River.<br />
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Jarrett Bortscher, 18, went missing from his parent’s south Edmonton home Sunday evening. His family and Edmonton police asked for the public’s help finding him.<br />
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On Wednesday, after more than 60 hours since his disappearance, a Facebook group dedicated to the search announced Bortscher had been found, but not alive.<br />
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“Words cannot express the family’s loss,” said family friend Josie Thrasher. “Jarrett was a wonderful son and brother —he was dearly loved and will be forever missed.”<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444e5c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.649999618530273px;">Mikey Gray, a 2-year-old with autism, walked out the door of his home dressed in lime-green pajamas Aug. 7 and disappeared into the woods of Spafford in the hills above Skaneateles Lake.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444e5c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.649999618530273px;">His mother, Kimberly Gray, remembers well the four hours of pain and terror she went through that day as 150 police officers and volunteers searched for the boy. It ended when a state trooper heard the boy’s cries and found him in the woods a quarter mile from the family’s Bacon Hill Road house.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444e5c; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.649999618530273px;">Kimberly Gray was grabbing a shower around noon that day. Her husband, off-duty state Trooper John Gray, was helping their 13-year-old son set up his stereo. Then the 13-year-old said two words that set the family into pandemonium — “Where’s Mikey?”</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Spafford (WSYR-TV) -- Two-year-old Michael Gray, who went missing on Tuesday, is now resting at home safely with his parents. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Gray, who is autistic, wandered into the woods and vanished sometime around noon. But after an extensive search, Gray was found alive and well. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">“He’s just a beautiful, beautiful kid…an incredible sweet boy,” said Gray’s mom Kim. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">After a four hour search, and with just a few scratches on his face, Gray was found. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Gray ventured a little too far from his home, prompting an intensive search on the ground and from above. Then, at about 4 p.m., the call came in that he’d been found. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">State Trooper Joe House <b><span style="color: red;"><a href="http://www.9wsyr.com/news/local/story/Autistic-boy-who-went-missing-now-resting-safely/EElw1h-NRUKv08Zih3s0-Q.cspx" target="_blank">found Gray about a quarter mile down the road</a></span></b>.</span></blockquote>
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