The Autism College Connection

On our autism journey, I stumbled through three stages of confusion. The first stage was when my son was really little. He couldn’t talk well, but he didn’t have other telltale markers for autism. His pediatrician, Early Intervention, preschool teachers and my mother insisted that he didn’t have autism. Instead, they told me that he couldn’t talk well because he had apraxia or because he was a genius or that I spoiled him. I’ll be forever grateful to a neurologist that I found when he was five, who gave us the real diagnosis.  

Later, I was confused pretty during his K-12 school years. He was a square peg both in typical settings and autism settings, so he bounced from program to program. I spent countless hours googling IDEA laws to self-advocate for him during IEP meetings. If you spend all your spare money on therapy and have to quit your job to drive young son to therapy, it can be difficult to afford a professional advocate.  

As my son was getting ready to leave high school, I was very confused about everything that happened next. I spent three years networking with experts, traveling to various programs, hiring professional support, watching hundreds of hours of webinars, attending transition fairs, talking with more knowledgable parents and learning through trial and errors. Now, he’s on the path towards independence, employment, and security. Most of all, he’s happy. 

Because I spent most of the past twenty years confused, it’s my mission to help other autism parents become less confused. I’m using my background as a professor and a writer to build a big education platform both here and elsewhere. I hope that my work helps you become a little less confused. The upcoming Webinar series will provide more assistance. 

We have seven FREE webinars scheduled between October and March. Some are webinars that I’m running myself. Other webinars will feature the input of other experts and professionals. Below are the links to webinars. I will produce Facebook-friendly flyers for each event as we get closer the dates.