Interview with Mom Part II
Video Summary
A mother with 2 children on the autism spectrum and a third with developmental delays, discusses the importance of going with your "gut" as a parent, accessing early intervention services and learning how to turn every day into an educational environment for your child with autism.
"If I had said at that first assessment, 'Ok...he's borderline, so let's not go with the services,' I would have had to call them again 3 months later... So my thought would be the services don't hurt your child, so if there's a chance that your child might be delayed, you should go for it, be aggressive."
— Mom of Gabriel, Ben and Nathan
Keywords
- Autism-General Information
- Early Intervention (EI)
- Family Life
- daily living issues
- raising children with autism
- parenting
- siblings
- Milestones
- not eating with a spoon
- Nonverbal Behaviors Used in Social Interaction
- lack of eye contact
- Physical Development
- fine motor development
- Play
- lack of imitative social play
- Social Interaction
- lack of engagement
- Therapies
- therapy strategies
- Toys
- puzzles
- Verbal Communicative Skills
- lack of vocal expressiveness