Grieving the Diagnosis

Grieving the Diagnosis

      When my son was three, we went through the nine month, arduous process of getting my son diagnosed with autism.  At the time I already knew he had autism.  We had started him on the Gluten Free Casien Free diet and put him in an ABA program.  I...
Autism does not mean Intellectual Disability

Autism does not mean Intellectual Disability

When my son was first diagnosed with autism in 2001, and I began attending conferences to learn more, I was really surprised to see many educators approaching autism spectrum disorder (ASD) like intellectual developmental disability (IDD).  I was also really surprised...