Interesting article in NYT about a DC family who used Disney to connect to their son with Autism.

[Anonymous]

Well written article. Definitely made me cry a bit

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/magazine/reaching-my-autistic-son-through-disney.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=MG_RMA_20140307&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1388552400000&bicmet=1420088400000&_r=0

[Anonymous]

Fascinating. Thank you!

[Anonymous]

So moving. Affinity therapy: we tried to tap into any of my son's interests which could be tapped into. But these parents definitely took it to extremes and it paid off.

[Anonymous]

Thanks! I preordered the book from Amazon.

Mentions many of the big players in autism in this area including how Lab changed from a school that treated all kids with SNs including autism into the niche of LDs that it does now.

[Anonymous]

Wow.

[Anonymous]

DC focus makes it all the more interesting. As someone with a child with different SNs, and just getting started on this journey, I found the financial info sobering. $90k a year! That's more than I make, and probably about what my DH takes home.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for sharing on the boards. I am going to pre-order it too.

[Anonymous]

i thought the end of the article, where the author discussed the reasons why his child was essentially kicked out of Lab School and his discussion with the founder were very interesting. It shed light on a question that has gone on for years about whether and why Lab has changed the criteria for the kids they admit.

[Anonymous]

I have a child with high functioning autism but we are middle class and I am really depressed about how much more therapy and private support a family like the author's can afford for their dc vs ours. Not that I begrudge them anything for their son.

[Anonymous]

Very moving article.

[Anonymous]

How is affinity therapy different than Floortime therapy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i thought the end of the article, where the author discussed the reasons why his child was essentially kicked out of Lab School and his discussion with the founder were very interesting. It shed light on a question that has gone on for years about whether and why Lab has changed the criteria for the kids they admit.

Me too. I think some of this has gone on at Ivymount too.

[Anonymous]

You mean Ivymount has changed its criteria?

[Anonymous]

Ivymount has slowly moved to much more of a focus just on kids who ate on the spectrum.

[Anonymous]

are not on the spectrum?