Brian Calligy has been visiting Santa Kerry with his daughter Sara, now 10, for five years. She has non-verbal autism, and when she touched his mouth after he boomed “Ho, ho, ho,” Magro ...

At a recent tree-lighting celebration in Lake Forest, 6-year-old Max Brown kept trying to run off and pet strangers’ dogs. Max, who has autism spectrum disorder, loves dogs, said his mother, and ...

At a recent tree-lighting celebration in Lake Forest, 6-year-old Max Brown kept trying to run off and pet strangers’ dogs. Max, who has autism spectrum disorder, loves dogs, said his mother, and ...

"My youngest son has autism and cannot wait in lines and has a tough time with noise and crowds," Pam Bybell told WBZ-TV. That's why she started bringing her son to Caring Santa at the Burlington ...

Santa Cares and Bunny Cares events both benefit Autism Speaks. Since 2015, more than $733,318 has been raised at these events for Autism Speaks.

Two organizations — Autism Speaks and Cherry Hill Programs — partnered for “Santa Cares,” an event that involves hundreds of malls in the U.S. and Canada opening early so the environment ...

Eventually, Santa joined him on the floor — on his famous belly. Autism Speaks and Maeghan Pawley “He got down on his stomach and just started playing with him,” Deely said.

She was diagnosed with autism, and is also non-verbal. "Santa also has autism [so] it's a special connection, a special bond," her father, Brian Callighy, told CBS News.

Well, a mall Santa in Charlotte, N.C. gave us that answer last month when he got on the floor to hang out with Brayden Deely, a 6-year-old boy with autism who wasn’t into participating in the ...

A Michigan boy with Autism had a special interaction with Santa this year. Landon Johnson, age 6, told Santa what he wanted for Christmas. But when his mom went to pay for the photo, Landon went ...

A Santa in a mall gets on the floor while meeting with 6-year-old Brayden, who has autism, because Brayden was too nervous to sit in Santa's lap. creativeContent-Courtesy of Autism Speaks and ...