I know there are many blogs with great information about how to advocate for your special needs child. We are very blessed to have a lot of parents and therapists, doctors, etc., who just care, and thankfully write about it.
The thing I've heard time and again from everyone in my autism community, and over the years, that's what I came to know it as, is you must be your child's BEST advocate. People will say you need to advocate for your child and that will likely leave with a deer in the headlights expression and you saying, "Ummm....ok, what does that mean?"
It means reading, researching, doing your homework. Let's face it, none of us in this world have any excuse for not knowing better. If you're reading this, you have a computer or a smart phone. That means you have access to a search engine. At first I thought I should list a bunch of resources I've found over the years. But then, I thought...ok, parents of kids on the spectrum surely have searched the web for information. I've collected these sites and this insight by searching everything I could about Aspergers and autism and doing the homework myself. Any parent of a kid on the spectrum should do the same--no excuses. Eventually, I will post my favorites. Until then, use that awesome Google machine!
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