New York feature for Cafe Mom: Christmas is beautiful & overwhelming

As a parent to children with high additional needs, it can be a roller coaster of emotions. It’s beautiful, overwhelming, terrifying, and rewarding all at once. There are days where we don’t know how we survived and days that we want to relive over and over.

We are not able to just celebrate any given occasion. Attending someone’s house requires a huge amount of planning, explanations of what behaviors may appear and there is a big possibility we may only last five minutes at your home. Celebration days are normally extremely stressful and isolating for our family and so many others.

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Treating patients on the autism spectrum

Thank you to Australian Dental Association for this article on treating patients on the autism spectrum. Kathrine says one of the first thing she asks prior to a medical consultation, especially if the family is going somewhere new, is if they can have a desensitisation appointment. “I can tell you that most parents are anxious

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Autism – friendly day for shopping centres?

Autism awareness has become more widespread this century, and greater numbers of children with subtle symptoms are now diagnosed at young ages. But decades ago, doctors rarely diagnosed people towards the subtler end of the spectrum. “Fifty years ago, nobody would call autism what we call autism today – they would just be consid- ered

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