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		<title>Stories From the Heart: Baptism into Disability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Immersion – maybe you&#8217;ve witnessed people being baptized in a river? They go to the water’s edge anticipating the dunking but also feeling some trepidation about the process.  I think, most of all, they are looking forward to the time beyond the ceremony when the new life conferred by the baptismal experience is part of]]></description>
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		<title>Stories From the Heart: Success Is Not Always Reaching Your Goal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new thing, potty training, was not going well for my son, Sawyer.  He had just begun working with in-home therapists and they wanted us to put him on the toilet every half hour.  My wife didn’t think he was ready.  I wanted to work on at least getting him desensitized to being in the]]></description>
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		<title>Stories From the Heart: I Wonder Why My Baby Brother Has Autism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My baby brother, Michael, has Autism and is three years old.  He is just now learning to say some words.  Autism is something when it is hard for a baby to learn to talk. Sometimes it is hard to understand him.  He calls me ‘Jonin’ and he calls my brother ‘Woo-woo’. Well, he probably has]]></description>
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		<title>Stories From the Heart: Alien</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I felt like the mother in the commercial, where her son shows her a good report card, and she starts to cry.  My son is growing up.  He pulled up his grades.  I wish he could do the same for his pants, but one thing at a time. We visited a college campus]]></description>
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		<title>Stories From the Heart: A Soft Wind Flowing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I work day in and day out with children who have an array of disabilities. Truth be known, no two children are ever the same, despite the same labeled disabilities. What fascinates yet mystifies me at the same time, is our inability to see things the way that they do. Many children I work with]]></description>
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		<title>Stories From the Heart: My Hope</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps through some miracle, my son David may turn out to be like Alfred Nobel, Pablo Picasso, or Hikari, but it is extremely unlikely. Those people touched the lives of multitudes through their works. David touches the lives of only a few, but the lives that he does touch are greatly enriched by his presence.]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Things To Know &amp; Do If Autism Strikes Your Family!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you or someone you know receives a diagnosis for their child, student, family member or client you need to tell them early intervention is the best chance they have to get the child the help they need.  Be sure to tell them to get over it fast. Do not stay in a state of]]></description>
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		<title>Stories From the Heart: What They Forget To Mention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember the day of my son&#8217;s diagnosis of Autism as if it were yesterday.  The tone of the doctor&#8217;s voice, the silence in the room, the words &#8220;lifelong disability, no cure, I&#8217;m sorry&#8221; still sting when I allow myself to reflect on that day.  But I have thought, on occasions too numerous to count,]]></description>
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		<title>Stories From the Heart: My Son Joshua</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son Joshua was welcomed into this world in November, 2000.  It had been a difficult pregnancy with premature labor at 7 months, followed by 2 months of bed rest.  He was born healthy and his dad, sister, and I were grateful. The first year was challenging.  Josh had trouble sleeping, eating and was often]]></description>
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		<title>Stories From the Heart: Just be Mommy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s so amazing to me how much you can love your children. It is even more amazing to me how much children learn from their parents, and how much we, as their parents, learn from them. Having a child on the Autism-Spectrum Disorder is challenging, but also provides meaningful opportunities. Our son Bo was diagnosed]]></description>
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