Educating Marston

Everyone experiences happiness and sorrow, anger, joy, fear, surprise, loneliness. Kids on the spectrum feel just as deeply, but they often sound different, have more issues with confidence, and they dont know what comes after hi, making their ability to focus and succeed in social situations hard. With Marston, Id start every morning believing today was the day he was going to look into my eyes and really want me. Hed reach for me, smile for the first time. Walk. Hed say, Mama, Daddy, or even ball. By 1998, when he turned three, Id uttered that same old prayer a thousand times, and I was more determined than ever to shatter the glass wall that separated my son from the rest of the world. Autism wasnt widely talked about back then, and Facebook (networking) didnt exist. Eric and I were on our own. This memoir is our journey of educating Marston through programs like The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential, Vision Therapy, the Tomatis Method, Marion Blanks approach to reading, hypotherapy, balloon dancing, and the list goes onuntil we discovered stem cell replacement therapy. Love, faith, hard work, and teamwork have taught Marston how to strike up a