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Surgery for a Family Member

How do you talk to your child with autism when a member of his immediate family is about to have major surgery? My husband had major surgery six years ago but our child was only two. We didn’t really have to involve him. When he just had the same surgery last week, my husband and I had to come up with a strategy on how to tell and involve our now eight-year-old child. What did we do?

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Why It’s Important to Find the Right Doctor for Your Tween

By K. L. Blankson, MD It was easier when she was first born. Everything was, well, scheduled. The two -week visit. Then the 2-month visit (that 6 week gap felt like forever, didnt it?). The first set of many scheduled immunizations. The assessment of developmental milestones. Cooing, eye contact, rollingand then it seemed like she went straight from crawling to calling you to pick her up from the mall.