When you have a child with special needs, you interact with a lot of experts. It's taken a long time for this mom to really understand that she is the top-ranking expert when it comes to her son. Published January 27 2010
Knowing that having a special needs brother is wonderful is one thing. Seeing his siblings struggle to help take care of him is another. Published January 23 2010
Our autism mom recalls the incident at a baseball game that caused her to formulate a stock answer to "What's wrong with him?" Published January 20 2010
Zakhquery Price is an 11-year-old with autism. And he's fighting felony assault charges after being restrained at his Arkansas school. What is wrong with this picture? Published January 11 2010
Homework is the worst hour of this mom's day. Make that two hours. Or three. Published January 6 2010
How do you let a stranger know that your child with autism isn't badly behaved—he has a disability? Published January 3 2010
When Jean had her first child in 2001, "autism" was about the scariest word she could think of. Six years later when her second child was diagnosed with PDD-NOS, a form of autism, she was just happy to have a ...
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