Sidney Public Schools educators attend autism awareness conference

Sidney Public Schools administrators and special education teachers attended a conference held in Kearney in early April to further their education on autism awareness.

With April designated as National Autism Awareness Month, a group of special educators for Sidney Public Schools went to the Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) Network’s 12th Annual State Conference in Kearny on April 7 to learn more on the increasingly prominent disorder.

Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder that involves abnormal development and function of the brain. People with autism show decreased social communicatio...