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The Miracle Cure
Matthew (right) with brother Andy A look back at “The Dark Ages” when early intervention was a guessing game: An excerpt from A REGULAR GUY: GROWING UP WITH AUTISM 1993 During winter break in...
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A Trip to the Hardware Store
An Excerpt from A Regular Guy: Growing Up With Autism “Mom! I have something very important to tell you,” my eighteen-year-old son told me urgently. “We need to go to the hardware store.” I took a deep...
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Acceptance
An excerpt from A Regular Guy: Growing Up With Autism “Hi Laura. Just giving you a heads-up. There was a program last night on this cable channel about miracle treatments for autism. Something about...
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Voices of Autism: Claire Hayes shares her story
Do you ever wonder, why you? Do you ever wish life had turned out different? You love your child, accept them completely, but sometimes it’s all too much? Today my friend Claire Hayes, of...
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Autism: 8 tips to help you survive the holidays
The year was 1991. Matthew, who had yet to receive a formal diagnosis of autism, was 4, and Andy was 2. My husband and I dressed them matching reindeer sweaters and took them to the company holiday...
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I’ll never forget the day, after much pacing and practicing, that I mustered up enough courage to call the mother of one Matthew’s kindergarten classmates to arrange a play date. The year was 1991, and...
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Top Ten Concerns for Autism Parents
Every now and then, I ask parents who visit my Facebook autism forum to tell me what their biggest and most consistent worry is. Below is the list of top ten concerns in my unofficial poll. Click each...
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On Huffington Post Parents. CLICK HERE to read! The post Missing Matthew appeared first on Laura Shumaker.
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12 life lessons that I’ve learned from raising a child with autism
Of the many lessons I have learned from raising a child with autism from babyhood to adulthood, the following twelve were the hardest earned, and the most valuable: Optimistic new mom-what do you mean...
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