This teacher's dedication helps students with autism blossom One teacher works more to develop trust and openness with an autistic student and last updated 2021-04-28 12:23:50-04 POWHATAN, Va. -- If you ask Mona Morris about her granddaughter, Grace, she'd say she is a lot like other fourth graders. "She loves the outdoors,â said Morris. âShe loves her friends and being with her dog. She's loving. She woke me up at 4 o'clock this morning with a kiss on my cheek, you know, because she was looking forward to school." But, Morris said, it wasn't always that way. Grace has autism and AD...