Posted on June 9, 2007 by rafael00
I’ve received the feedback that although drawings, races and the health care system can be interesting, what people really want to know is about what parents of Autistic children go through in their day to day, so this posting is a response to that request. In fact, this is the first of a multi-part series [...]
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Posted on June 2, 2007 by rafael00
The Wellesley Townsman published an article last week on my fund-raising campaign and and they keyed in on the fact that my goal is to ensure that Julien is integrated in society. The article’s author also had a child with Autism and during our interview she immediately understood what I meant by my this comment [...]
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Posted on May 2, 2007 by rafael00
The difficult thing about parenting an Autistic kid is that after you finish defusing his meltdowns, driving him to his therapies, shepherding him through his daily routine, negotiating with his siblings who want the same “preferential treatment”, filling out paperwork to get him accepted to new therapies/interventions/special needs camps/evaluations, scheduling all the meetings with his [...]
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