How do children on the spectrum learn to interact with other children in appropriate ways? What is it that “clicks” their gears into movement? It’s hard to understand the way their processing works and even harder to guess what may or may not interrupt their thought patterns. Sometimes I see my son tackle challenges that [...]

Every year we celebrate Christmas by visiting a different country – right in our own home! We eat that country’s traditional food, decorate and dress to fit the part and, best of all, we all learn more about traditions celebrated by others around the world! This year Sweden was the chosen country so we started [...]

It has been a month of cold, colds, germs and viruses… more so than I can remember in a long time! I simply have not had the energy to keep up with everything and I apologize that the month has gone by with only one blog post! My newest book The Journey, Home from Autism [...]

The Journey, Home from Autism has arrived! This book started out as a 30 page hand out and now is a 312 book that covers everything we learned, did, experienced and found to be helpful. Funny how things work though… the books arrived the day before Thanksgiving. We enjoyed a houseful of company on Thanksgiving [...]

In July, 2009 I meet two delightful women, Korri BeVier and Michelle Wager, who told me about an outreach that they had organized to help children with serious diseases who were in and out of The Children’s Hospitals located in Denver, CO. “How did your mission begin?” I had to know how and why they [...]