by By Cindy Young, M.S.E., CCC-SLP

Let’s all take a look at the “elephant in the room”…AUTISM is big, Big, BIG business! There is no way around the fact that Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is the most talked about childhood disability at this time. I have spent the last 26 years in the speech language field and I have never seen a trend like the one we are currently facing. Autism affects many of us in our community directly and indirectly, weather you are aware of it or not. There are many other childhood disabilities such as cerebral palsy, Down’s syndrome, Childhood Apraxia of Speech, mental retardation, dyslexia, learning disabled, hearing impaired and vision impaired just to name a few. Yet, you hear relatively little to nothing about them anymore. Those children and their families have just as many obstacles to face as a family involved with ASD. Continue reading →