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The parents of Alex, 8, discuss life with an autistic child
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Available Episodes (20)
Waiver Woes
Alex, being forever autistic, has a Medicaid waiver, which opens the door to funding for a variety of services, from dental insurance to payment for recreation camps and...
Summer again, and time to load up the family car and hit the road for fun times and sunshine-y afternoons. Unless youve got an autistic kid like Alex, when the good times can become...
April is Autism Awareness Month, and as Jeff said to Jill, What the hell do we need this for? Im always aware of autism! Then an old friend of Jeffs sent him an email saying, I searched...
In a perfect world, parents of autistic kids would have every need met.
But Jill and Jeff dont live in a perfect world, and in this cast they
talk about what theyd like to see available...
In this very special cast, Alexs typically-developing little brother Ned, 7, offers his insights into what life is like with Alex, and, perhaps more important, what he thinks that life...
As 2007 ends, Jill and Jeff look back at Alexs accomplishments through the year overnight camp for a week, eating bananas and drinking milk, among others and look at what theyd
Holidays mean special times: dinners, presents, heartwarming moments with family and friends that can in turn can mean sheer exhaustion when Alex gets rambunctious. Jill and Jeff share...
Scads of movies and TV shows have featured developmentally challenged characters, from Rain Man to Something About Mary to The Office. As parents in the trenches of special-needs, Jill...
Jill and Jeff would love to see Alex start to mainstream with typically developing students. They discuss the pluses and minuses, the worries and hopes of putting him in an unfamiliar...
For most people, back to school is a bright fall day filled with the excitement of learning new things. For Jill and Jeff, its a time of burning-eyed exhaustion as they readjust
Jill and Jeffs friend Mindy is the mother of a special-needs child and a whiz at fashioning devices for him with little more than everyday household materials and a glue gun. In
Whether he knows it or not, Alex is having a great summer. For the first time since he started school six years ago, he is not going to the summer school program. He misses school,...
For autistic kids, learning how to go to the dentist can be at least as critical as toilet training, but the visit can be a real trial: screeching, squirming, bolting, and an almost...
Alexs eating has been a challenge for years, but lately bananas and malted milk have made their way onto his Yea! list. Heres how we did it, along with some thoughts on camping with...
Jill has come up with 10 cant-miss tips and pointers for Early Intervention providers and service coordinators, based on her (sometimes exasperating) experiences with Alex in EI.
Saturdays, school holidays, vacations anytimes a good time to go crazy with Alex at home. He loves structure; we love to sit around and catch up on reading, do a little housework, sip...
Inheritance versus trust. Pooled versus private. Grantors versus trustees. Payouts and benefits cutoffs and testamentary and inter vivos and what does all this mean when youre just...
Few issues come with more emotional freight than whether to create a special-needs trust monies put aside for your disabled childs adulthood, when a parent is no longer around. Were...
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Alex pours milk down the sink asks for pizza/chicken/hot dogs in a restaurant, then wont eat them refuses to sit at the table with us. Sometimes its typical 8-year-old...
Youd think, with two kids, two parents, and one salary, wed be rolling in it. Youd be wrong. Life is expensive, and not just because we live in Manhattan.
