Thanksgiving is approaching, and my Timehop app just reminded me of something amazing that my family was involved in, back in November of 2011. My friend Dawn Crawford, owner of creative marketing firm BC DC Ideas, hit me up about The Autism Science Foundation, a nonprofit she was involved in, which provides money to research scientists searching for the causes of autism so that better treatments may be developed. She was interested in filming a …
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Mother’s Intuition in Action!
Next month, my son Pablo will turn ten. Like many kids with autism, he has occasionally wandered, when something has truly caught his interest. During his early elementary school years, he loved to run along the fence that bordered the school playground. Unfortunately, it wasn't the playground fence, it was the privacy fence running along the back of the houses near the school - and it went on and on and ON. He would take off and run alongside …
How to Communicate with a Nonverbal Child #Autism
Every parent dreams of the day when their little one says their first word. For some parents, especially of children with autism, that day never comes. My boy Pablo is a chatty 4th grader now, in spite of his autism - but he didn't speak until he was four years old. For a long time, we weren't sure if he would ever be able to talk at all. Even though he couldn't speak, Pablo was able to communicate with my husband and me, and even his …