We went to go visit our oldest in Fayetteville last weekend for Parent Weekend at the University of Arkansas. What our 5-hour drive lacks in terms of restaurants and gas stations, it certainly makes up for with lakes, trees and fields of grass. No matter how many books I take or how many podcasts I [...]
Tag: Speech
UNT’s Adventures in Autism Conference: 2019
We were kid-free for a large part of our Saturday. Usually that means we're having fun. These days it could also mean we're running errands and taking care of business before our oldest leaves to Arkansas. But today it meant we were attending a local conference dedicated to therapeutic interventions for people living with Autism. [...]
The Callier Center: Summer 2019
We don't really know how we got the phone call, but we did. When Juan received the message that Jacob's name had come up and there was a spot for him to attend pre-verbal speech classes this summer, we jumped at the opportunity. The Callier Center was our rebound after the heartbreak of ABA Therapy. [...]
Our Red Flags
A question we often get is, how did we know? What was it that we saw, or didn't see, in Jacob before the official diagnosis that had us questioning Autism to begin with? To set the stage, you must know that the saying "ignorance is bliss" is very true. Unfortunately, we didn't have the privilege [...]
