What a wonderful article. The little video is very moving as well.

"Thank god, he's still in there" made me cry like a baby.

We've made considerable progress by helping our son with HFA find his special interests and focus on them. He loves acting and role playing games and fantasy novels. Last year, we went to GenCon, a gaming convention in Indianapolis, and there were moments when he was talking to other people at the con, strangers, when I thought "He's almost normal. They can't tell. They like him."

Ron Suskind is a great writer. Thanks for sharing this.

The part about having your special needs kid discarded by their special needs school spoke to me. From experience, I know how much that hurts.

Just read the article. Very moving and interesting.

Ivymount has several programs - and takes students throughout the Spectrum - from low functioning to high functioning - but still takes students with speech and language issues, developmental disabilities, etc. But it is true, most of their students have some kind of autism diagnosis.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Is there a book about this case? The article is marvelously written.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00HEVTPJ0/ref=mp_s_a_1_7?qid=1394343173&sr=8-7&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70

Anonymous wrote: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.

Is there a book about this case? The article is marvelously written.

Wow