If you would like to contribute, please email me at autismwonderland@gmail.com with your name, brief bio, connection to Autism and your submission. (Word count: 500 - 650.)
Please allow 5 to 10 days for review. Once reviewed, I will let you know when your submission will post.
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. For more on Kim, please visit:
- 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 : Please visit Chynna Laird's website at http://www.lilywolfwords.ca/, as well as her blogs at http://www.the-gift-blog.com/ andhttp://www.seethewhiteelephants.com/, to get a feel for her work and what inspires her.
- An Artificial Divide: A Look Back: Kim Wombles
- Me? Courageous? : Patty O. is the mother of 3 kids: a 7 year-old boy, a 5-year-old daughter, and 2 year old son. Please follow Patty at Pancakes Gone Awry.
- Autism and Parenting: 5 tips to reduce stress: Laura Shumaker is the author of A Regular Guy: Growing Up With Autism and is a City Bright for the San Francisco Chronicle.
- Fun with Floortime: Cindy Tovar, M.S.Ed. (Dagny's Dichotomy).
- Making the Impossible, Possible: Silvia Santiago, Speech Therapist and mother to a son with autism.
- Like Two Ships Passing in the Night:
Marj Hatzell, otherwise known as The Domestic Goddess (), is a Domestic Engineer, Total Babe and SAHM to two boys with autism, ADHD, OCD and a variety of other acronyms.
- Yesterday at the Rotary Meeting: From Mission of Complex 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. For more on Jessie, please visit her at http://www.subversivewhimsies.blogspot.com/
