https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A French magazine produced by autistic journalists has gone on sale on newsstands for the first time, further raising the profile of a project that has already made waves on television. https://www.thelocal.fr/20250108/french-magazine-run-by-autistic-journalists-hits-newsstands Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:27:20 +0100 french-magazine-run-by-autistic-journalists-hits-newsstands France's approach to autism was once blasted as "a violation of citizens' rights" by the UN. Here's a look at the problems autistic people have faced in the country over the years and how its roots lie in psychoanalysis in this article from The Conversation. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180418/frances-problem-with-autism-and-its-roots-in-psychoanalysis Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:23:27 +0200 frances-problem-with-autism-and-its-roots-in-psychoanalysis France will spend €344 million on a new plan to help autistic children and adults after the country's approach to autism was once blasted as "a violation of citizens' rights" by the UN. Here's what you need to know. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180406/how-france-plans-to-overhaul-its-approach-to-autism Fri, 06 Apr 2018 15:24:46 +0200 how-france-plans-to-overhaul-its-approach-to-autism The French mother of an autistic child has created what is believed to be the world's first app that allows everyone and anyone to communicate together - regardless of their mother tongue or inability to speak at all. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150420/france-autistic-childs-mum-invents-world-language-app Mon, 20 Apr 2015 16:25:56 +0200 france-autistic-childs-mum-invents-world-language-app Parents of an autistic teenage boy faced court on Tuesday, on charges of neglect, after they left the child at home to go on holiday with their other children. While they were away their son committed suicide. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150203/parents-court-france-autistic-son-suicide Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:40:00 +0100 parents-court-france-autistic-son-suicide An outraged mother spent Friday perched atop a crane in southern France denouncing the alleged unfair removal of her Autistic son from school. She's not the first parent to take make the same extreme protest. https://www.thelocal.fr/20140321/mother-in-crane-protest-over-autistic-son Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:34:00 +0100 mother-in-crane-protest-over-autistic-son French mum Jacqueline Tiarti is into the 11th day of a hunger strike. If she continues she could soon be in a coma. Here she tells The Local how her fight for a better life for her 7-year-old autistic daughter has driven her to such extreme action. https://www.thelocal.fr/20130719/tiarti-mother Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:50:00 +0200 tiarti-mother