Autism Pioneer Dies
THE MYSTERIES of autism remain a tangle. We have yet to map the inner world of a person with autism, much less find its precise cause.
Trumpet player benefits from treatment Lovaas pioneered.
Trumpet player benefits from treatment Lovaas pioneered.
But a powerful therapy is helping thousands of families: the intensive, near round-the-clock behavioral therapies that teach children with autism how to pay attention, listen to others and learn. Those therapies, and their central conviction that autism is treatable, were pioneered by Dr. O. Ivar Lovaas, the groundbreaking child psychologist who died earlier this month.
via NorthJersey.com: Breaking the silence.
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Julia Roberts
Julia Roberts is founder of Support for Special Needs and has been a regular contributor since its inception in May 2010. A mom to two kids with special needs, she didn't want other parents to feel what is the often isolating world of raising a child (or two!) with disabilities. Her kids had kidney transplants at the age of eight and will need liver transplants in the future as a result of ARPKD/CHF. They both have vision disorders and learning disabilities.