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Autistic children often have trouble sleeping at night. Here’s who and what is helping them.
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Volunteers with Sharing the Weight sew weighted blankets to give to children with special needs at Sisu Intragrated Early Learning on Saturday, March 9, 2019. - photo by Austin Steele
Grouchy, stressed, worried, anxious — all words that come to mind when Teresa Welch doesn't get any sleep because her son, Ethan, who is on the edge of the autism spectrum, won’t sleep at night.That’s why she was at Sisu Saturday, March 9, sewing a weighted blanket for him at an event put on by Sharing the Weight, a nonprofit that makes and distributes weighted blankets to special needs children for free.