Alice Ríos, a mother of a student at Berwind Elementary in San Juan, stated that parents are desperate due to the heat affecting students with autism. ^[1] The situation has left families without a clear path to relief, according to the account from El Nuevo Día filed on September 4, 2026. Ríos described the specific vulnerability of her child and others in similar situations as the temperatures rise. The read here is that the immediate physical discomfort of the heat is translating into a broader community emergency for special needs families in the capital, yet the record does not yet show what specific measures schools or officials have proposed to address the desperation Ríos described.