First AutismConnect Resource Fair | wltx.com [Video]

COLUMBIA, S.C. — More than 500 parents and children gathered Tuesday at the first ever AutismConnect resource fair, an event aimed at support and resources for families affected by autism. 

It was held at University of South Carolina’s Pastides Alumni Center.  The fair served as a platform for families to learn about available autism resources.

“It’s just been a lot on us, we don’t know where to go, we don’t know how to navigate it at all so we are just trying to get all the information we can from this,” said Asia Brown, who has a two-year-old son who was recently diagnosed with autism. 

Brown needed help navigating this new chapter of her life.

“I didn’t realize how many things there were just in the reach of my finger,” she …