‘Personal Essay’ Articles

by Stacy Bryan Autism is on the rise, especially Autism Spectrum Disorders such as Asperger’s Syndrome. It is reported that about three quarters of those diagnosed with Asperger’s Full Article

By Natalie Jaro To Read Part 1 & 2, click here. The Children’s Hospital recommended a psychiatrist who began Atticus on some medications for his ADHD.  The medication negatively aggravated Full Article

by Natalie Jaro To read Inside These Shoes, Part 1 Click Here My teaching was then interrupted when Atticus was born in the Fall of 1999.  For the first years of his life I stayed home with him.  Full Article

by Natalie Jaro One of my favorite lines from a movie is when Gregory Peck, who plays Atticus Finch, in ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’, tells his temperamental and compulsive daughter, Scout Full Article

by Jacki Edry Receiving a diagnosis of autism can be very confusing. Within the blink of an eye, an ordinary family is bombarded with a bunch of names that create a whirlpool of mixed emotions. These Full Article

by Inna Selipanov Being a parent isn’t easy, and neither is being a child. Matters are complicated tenfold for parents of autistic children, and the children themselves. Autistic kids are often Full Article

I will never forget the day that my child received his first diagnosis of PDD. It happened when he was about 2 ½ years old, and I was standing in the middle a crowded hallway of a clinic in Israel Full Article