When a 17-year-old boy with Asperger’s Syndrome was reported as missing, I felt an immediate kinship to the story. All parents worry about their children, but those with a child that has an autistic spectrum ...
The following is an open letter from Greenburgh Supervisor Paul Feiner, who spent Saturday night and all day Sunday sending out eblasts to residents and driving through the town of Greenburgh to assess damage ...
Perhaps more than any lament of the pre-teen parent set, I hear how busy everyone is. We are not talking, of course, about spending days digging wells with our own hands or scratching out a living picking fruit ...
I had seen it in movies, when a person heard bad news the world started to spin and the sound sort of tunneled until there was just a whooshing with the speaker’s mouth moving. When I heard Peter’s diagnosis at ...
Forgive me a moment if I blame it all on you. Of course, it is partly the fault of my wife, a mental health professional and baker who always wanted to turn farmer. About a month ago, I wrote in this space about ...
I have been hesitating to write about Peter’s “phobia” about the weather because we are still in the middle of it. I like a nice neat story with an ending line and the end of this story has yet to be written. At ...
Email is an affordable tool that lets your business communicate effectively with customers, clients or members, and build strong, successful and lasting relationships. When customers sign up to receive your ...
We've all probably had our fill of summer travel stories, with their recommendations for this patch of sand over that, or one overpriced country farm stand over another. But what if you are officially beach and ...
When it comes to autism, networking is a matter of survival. With so many therapies, diets and educational suggestions, parents often do not know where to turn as they go down one path after another searching for ...
Last Saturday it was clear that something had happened to Phoebe during the night. She couldn't hold her head up and when she stood, she wobbled around on floppy legs like a newborn giraffe. It looked like she ...
For those of you who thought The Tappan Zee Bridge was our signature piece of dangerously antiquated infrastructure, here's despairing news: there's more antiquated danger where that came from. Hundreds ...
I always thought we had five senses: seeing, hearing, taste, touch and smell. As I had to learn about autistic spectrum disorders to help my son Peter I learned about other senses: tactile, vestibular, and ...
If I wanted to see the kitchen counters of Westchester and Connecticut in their natural state, I had come to the right place: Deer Isle, Maine. It's where the granite that built everything from Rockefeller ...
According to Autism Speaks, approximately 25 percent of those with autistic spectrum disorders are non-verbal. That does not always mean no words, but it does mean that their verbal capacity is so impacted, they ...
I just returned from the rugged mountains of Colorado with research for an upcoming book complete, T-shirts for the kids, and the thought that we here in Westchester and Connecticut are total hill ...