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Uniquely Wired – A Story About Autism – Book Review

Uniquely Wired - A Story About Autism - Book Review - Here's a great new book to help kids understand autism and some of the behaviors associated with it! When my son was diagnosed with autism as a toddler, people didn't talk about autism much at all. In fact, it was ME who brought him into his pediatrician, with my checklist of symptoms in hand, looking for answers. That was only a little more than a decade ago, and I think awareness and …

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LiveCode to teach Coding to Autistic Individuals #EveryoneCanCreateApps

Happy Autism Awareness Month! On this first day of April, I am sharing a critically important and completely awesome campaign with you. Beginning tomorrow, April 2, 2015, LiveCode is launching an Indiegogo crowd funding campaign to raise $350,000 to offset costs of creating a customized program with mentors, teachers and a sustainable commercial venture with an autism-friendly online marketplace for program graduates to sell their …

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Distracted by social media, I almost lost my son.

Something awful happened at the tail end of our California vacation last June. A near-miss so traumatizing that it's taken me six months to write about it. As the year is winding down, I'm looking back on all the fun stuff we did as a family, and this one memory is like a sharp little pain in the corner of my mind. It's my hope that sharing it now will help me move forward and let go of some of the guilt. Last June, my family took a road trip …

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