Improvisation for Autism

One thing I've learned over the last fifteen years of raising my twins with autism is the power of being oblique. After one son bombed out of a series of social skills classes, I felt like I may as well make a little pile of money and…

Drum Therapy for Autism

When I recently took my fifteen-year-old son with Asperger's to his weekly therapy session, I was thrilled when he was offered the chance to participate in drum therapy. Instantly, I recalled the days when he was a toddler throwing a…

Food Safety and Autism

In my opinion, the search for "the cause" of autism is a misnomer, because in our modern world there is no single cause, but a complex of environmental factors that trigger a genetic predisposition. While our technological advances have…