As parents of an autistic child, we experience large amounts of anxiety on a daily basis. This podcast offers suggestions on ways to cope better with that anxiety.

In this episode, I share details of our experience with early intervention as we navigated a year's worth of services for our son.

Understanding the difference between an IEP and a 504 Plan can be difficult for a parent just learning to navigate the public school system. Here, I give you a general overview and some guidelines to help you better understand the difference between the two.

In this podcast, I tell you how we helped our son develop and maintain friendships and offer suggestions that may help you and your child.

Awareness and Acceptance have to walk hand in hand if we are to promote both successfully in today's world. As parents of an autistic child, helping to build awareness and acceptance is crucial to our child's future. We must show them and the world that we accept them for who they are - an autistic person.

This episode gives suggestions on how to provide a bedtime routine that will better promote sleep for your autistic child. I talk about our bedtime routine as an example and also discuss some interesting data regarding sleep and the autistic child.

As parents of an ASD child, it's important that we not fall into the trap of comparison in our expectations for your child.

An autistic child's behavior can be challenging. Here I talk about some techniques to help you keep your cool.

Anytime we do something new for the first time; call a doctor, speak to a new teacher, take our child on a new play date experience, we are taking a first step. As parents of an ASD child, we also have to teach our children how to take their first steps. This podcast talks about how I go about taking a first step and some ways of how to help your child take their first steps. More importantly, it explains why their first steps can be so very difficult for them.

As parents raising an autistic child, the difficulties of our reality can weigh us down. This episode talks about how your perception of life is your reality and how you can change it. Your happiness and the happiness of your child is too important to let negativity win.