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  • Welcome to the parent autism blog at Autism Epicenter. This is an online journal written directly by parents of children with ASD. We'll share the triumphs and challenges as well as anything else that comes to our minds as related to Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

    Two parents post here:

    - Shane
    Autism Dad and the founder of Autism Epicenter. His son was born in 2002 and diagnosed in 2004 with classic autism.

    - Sherri
    Mother of "Sir Dantes". He was born in 2007 and diagnosed in 2009. "Ms. Maxie" is her typical daughter (doesn't have autism). Sherri works full time and blogs because she finds it to be therapeutic.

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Tags: parroting

Polly Want A Cracker?

By Yandle on Mar 1, 2012 | In Announcements | 4 feedbacks »

The last statistics that I read reported that about 45% of autistic children will remain non-verbal throughout their lives. Out of the percent that do speak, only about half of those will be able to hold a real conversation with another person. That is… more »
Tags: communication, echolalia, language, parroting, speech, talking