Here is a lovely article about a mom's mission to help her son: "Woody is plenty smart, he just uses unconventional means to show what he knows....He can point and type. Using a simple letterboard, Alphasmart and now an iPad, Woody is able to do the academic work of a typical 6th grader, despite his considerable challenges and severe communication deficits."
Woody’s Story: On a Mission for Woody / Talk About Curing Autism (TACA)
“When Woody was diagnosed with autism at age 2, I went into a mad dash for services and interventions. I heard that some mythical window closes at age 5; the once-elastic brain becomes concrete, impenetrable. Age 5 passed, then 7, then 10. Woody is now 12, still non-verbal and nowhere near “recovered”, even though we threw the kitchen sink of therapies at him. . . .”
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