History-making Congressional page is back home

Story by Denise Eck

6:01 p.m. Wednesday, July 2, 2008

A Topeka teenager is back home after making history in Washington, DC.

People welcomed 16-year-old Ben Berlin home after he spent three weeks working as a page for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Ben is autistic and the first person with autism ever to be a page.

Today, he showed off a letter from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thanking him for his dedication and a photo of him and other pages, signed by Pelosi.

"It's really fun and not something not many people get to do," Ben said.

Ben says he had such a great time and was so busy working that he didn't have time to be homesick.

Read the story we aired when Ben began his page work here.


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