Advocacy: The Gift that Keeps Giving
During this time of year, it’s easy for us to get caught up in making multiple trips to retail stores
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Being an Advocate for Your Autistic Child
An advocate can be defined as a person who pleads on behalf of another’s cause. Plead can be defined as
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Welcome to Holland
I have encountered family and friends that try their best to understand the world of autism in which too many of us live in. I struggle on how to appropriately describe this experience of what I refer to as “the world of autism”. I took a class a few y…
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Speak up and reach out!
In 1996 when my son received his autism diagnosis the information superhighway was not as it is today. My only recourse in learning about autism was the local library. I would search for the information and only find information dating in the 1980’s. I…
Read moreBeing Autistic
Being autistic is being set up to fail again and again, and having your inevitable failure attributed to your disordered
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The Woo is the Same
Woo, it has to be one of the more frustrating things as an autism advocate. Woo comes in all shapes
Read moreBeing an Autism Advocate
In one way or another, all parents that have a child with Autism will become an advocate… whether they are
Read moreThe Voices in My Head
The voices in my head…Yes!! There are voices in my head and sometimes they drive me crazy!! I signed my
Read moreAutism Light: Lou Melgarejo
Lou Malgarejo with his daughter BiancaLou Melgarejo is from Chicago, Illinois. He has three children, including one daughter with autism
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