Four Things I’ve Learned Raising a Child with Autism

This is a post by Jodi Singer, a Marketing & Sales Director for a professional services firm. She lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with her husband and twin boys, one of whom has autism. She s been the captain of the Autism Speaks team, Team Inspiration, since 2010. Imagine finding out you’re pregnant with twins. In addition to the typical fears of how you can possibly handle two babies, you probably feel a little thrill at the potential for a lifelong sibling connection.  Picture seeing them for the first time – two perfect, beautiful baby boys who have the world at their feet. Visualize watching them lying next to each other in the crib or on their play mat, their first smiles, their early love of books and music, their infectious giggles. Envision what it’s like as one twin continues the developmental journey – crawling, standing, walking, running – while the other one is left behind. And even after doctors have diagnosed him with low muscle tone and his physical ther
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