In March I picked up an old friend at the air­port. She is Catholic East Indi­an by cul­ture, Cana­di­an by cit­i­zen­ship. We first met in the US when our old­est chil­dren were 4 years old and attend­ing a part-time pre-school pro­gramme – she was the class­room aide. Since my broth­er in Eng­land had just start­ed going […]

I have long thought and known from expe­ri­ence that it only takes 24 hours a week to make a dif­fer­ence with a devel­op­men­tal­ly delayed child.  Most espe­cial­ly the same qual­i­ty 24 hours a week giv­en to any child from the time they are 4 months of age (ear­li­er if pos­si­ble) will ensure that a child […]

A ‘mother’? Bach­e­lors and Mas­ters degrees in Sci­ence.  Over the years she has been: Staff Nurse in hos­pi­tal  Nurse Man­ag­er Staff Devel­op­ment Coor­di­na­tor Found­ing leader of a com­mu­ni­ty autism soci­ety Board Cer­ti­fied Behav­ior Ana­lyst Lead Behav­ior Ana­lyst in a state projects Pri­vate con­sult­ing busi­ness Cur­rent­ly pur­su­ing a Ph.D. Fre­quent speak­er at con­fer­ences and work­shops at the […]

Good­ness is a long lost attribute and much maligned these days since a “good” per­son is an easy mark for many of the manip­u­la­tive peo­ple one meets. But those who are tru­ly “good” have a spe­cial qual­i­ty which makes all our lives bet­ter. I believe infants and chil­dren are real­ly “good” before we con­t­a­m­i­nate them with […]