Project Lifesaver

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Hello!

I wanted to spread the news to all of you who have ever spent time

looking for your lost child. My son who will be 5 next month

has autism and is non verbal. This morning disappeared on us

in the 2 minutes that I wasn't watching him. Long story short, he

was found by police 30 minutes later about 5 blocks away playing at

a park by himself. I know I am not the only one out there who has

had this experience. We have extra locks on all our doors and still

it can happen. What I want to let you all know about is a fabulous

tracking device that some police departments used called " project

lifesaver " . This was originally developed to use on people with

Alzheimers, but now they are also using it for nonverbal children

with autism, since they like to escape and they have no fear.

This is a wrist band kind of like what you would get at a hospital.

Once it is on, it only can come off by cutting it off. On it is a

transmitter type device that emits a signal. If your child is

missing, you can call up the police and they bring their special

tracking device out and it will pick up the signal of your child.

They can even use helicopters to get the signal if they get many

miles from where they last were. Please check out the website for

this at projectlifesaver.org. I know some of the police departments

in the Dallas and Ft Worth area are using this. This device can save

lives and as parents, our sanity. I never knew anything like this

existed until today and I am happy to say that my son now has

his special wrist band on (which he isn't too happy about), and if

he ever goes missing again, I will not feel so helpless.

Thanks for taking the time to read this!