Through the Looking Glass

The Through the Looking Glass series features blog posts written by parents, relatives, siblings, service providers, special education teachers and therapists of children/adults with Autism.

Through the Looking Glass Posts/Contributers:

• Necessity is the Mother of a Child On the Autism Spectrum - Heather McCracken is the founder and executive director of the Friend 2 Friend Social Learning Society. She is the creator of the Friend 2 Friend model and programs and a mother of three (Katie, Iain and Emma); her son Iain is on the autism spectrum. Heather actively designs and delivers social, communication peer play based programs for children ages 3 through 18 in schools and other community settings throughout North America and abroad. She an international speaker and widely published, author of "That's What's Different About Me", "Can I Play Too", "Demystifying Autism", and coauthor "Learners on the Autism Spectrum."
• Lessons Everywhere You Look: Kim Wombles is an Instructor of English (and psychology) at Cisco College. 
• The Paper Heart: The Paper Heart has been edited for AutismWonderland.  The complete exerpt can be read in Susan Rosano's book, "Living the Gift."
• Holding Hands Through Change  by Chynna Laird's 
• An Artificial Divide: A Look Back: Kim Wombles
• Me? Courageous? : by Patty O.
• Autism and Parenting: 5 tips to reduce stress by Laura Shumaker 
• Fun with Floortime: Cindy Tovar, M.S.Ed. 
• Making the Impossible, Possible: Silvia Santiago, Speech Therapist and mother to a son with autism.
• Like Two Ships Passing in the Night: 
  Marj Hatzell
• Yesterday at the Rotary Meeting: by Jeff Katz   
• Means of Communication: Jessie Leon is a writer and high school English teacher living in Brooklyn and attending the City College of New York's m.f.a program in creative writing.