Sunday, March 16, 1997 To read a story, HIGHLIGHT headline and click READ. COLUMN: Albert Johns COLUMN: Linn Mills Activities and events in Las Vegas Lost treasure stories abound around Tybo SENIOR ACTIVITIES Early diagnosis key to helping autistic children VOLUNTEERS: Positions available for helpers COLUMN: Michael Paskevich Paying the price Small steps: Helping autistic children COMMUNITY BRIEFS ----------END-----------
	Alden Grant, 2, laughs and claps after he accomplishes a task during therapy for his autism. His father David Grant, left, watches during a session at their home. The parents hope the program will help their son reach his full potential. Photo by Andrea C. Figatt/Review-Journal.	Small steps: Helping autistic children When Michele Tombari and David Grant learned their toddler son was autistic, they vowed to do something to change it.       "When I thought of autistic, I thought of a child 9, 10 years old, in a corner, rocking. Just totally `gone.' That's just not going to happen" with 2-year-old Alden, Tombari says emphatically. FULL TEXT Paying the price It's the swinging single life -- freedom, excitement, adventure.       That's the airbrushed image anyway. FULL TEXT
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