Reaching My Autistic Son Through Disney
Owen barely communicated with my wife and me. But he opened up to the parrot from “Aladdin.”
Hasnain says:
"After visits to several doctors, we first heard the word “autism.” Later, it would be fine-tuned to “regressive autism,” now affecting roughly a third of children with the disorder. Unlike the kids born with it, this group seems typical until somewhere between 18 and 36 months — then they vanish. Some never get their speech back. Families stop watching those early videos, their child waving to the camera. Too painful. That child’s gone."
Posted on 2014-03-11T21:57:05+0000