Dillon Howard

Autism Light #34 is Dillon Howard.

Dillon Howard is 19 and from Searcy, Arkansas. Dillon Howard is a very talented baseball player. In his last year of high school baseball he posted a 9-1 record with a 0.31 ERA. Recently Dillon signed a professional contract with the Cleveland Indians that included a $1.85 million signing bonus after being drafted in the 2nd round of the 2011 Major League Baseball draft. Baseball-Reference.com has set up a statistics page for him.

The Indians Minor League Magazine did a Focus on the Future feature on Dillon Howard's signing on August 30, 2011. Below is the YouTube video of the feature on Dillon Howard.

In honor of his brother Ben who has autism, Dillon has decided to give a portion of his signing bonus to an autism charity in the area.  He selected the Milestones Autism Organization in Beachwood, Ohio near Cleveland to receive his generous donation. The organization lists their mission on their website as "to promote life-long strategies of success for individuals with autism, from childhood through adulthood." You can follow this autism charitable organization on their Facebook page.

Dillon Howard is an Autism Light for his generosity to an autism charity in honor of his brother. We look forward to hearing about great success from Dillon Howard in his career as a baseball pitcher. For more information read articles on Dillon's family and this donation which were written by Stephanie Storm of the Akron Beacon Journal and by Zack Meisel of MLB.com. Thank you Dillon Howard for being an Autism Light.

If you liked this post you may wish to read other Autism Light posts about siblings of people with autism. They have the label of sibling on them. 

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