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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

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Autistic Kids

At 18 months of age jamie was diagnosed with autism as he got older those mannerisms got worse because aggression and frustrations started to be baked into his day. Just getting through a day was a ton of guesswork and walking on eggshells that something doesn't set him off. Four months ago we thought the height of Vince's cognition was i want juice but now he's cranking out these sophisticated paragraphs. We're seeing that when we address the sensory and motor differences of non-speakers they're capable of things that nobody realized they were capable of changing everything about how we teach and raise children with autism.

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