As parents, we had gone through a convoluted and arduous journey, that finally led us to Dr. Schopler. After his evaluation, without a word, he took us into his office, looked at us, took a long draw from his pipe, slowly exhaled and then without preamble, said "there is no way you could have caused this."
There is no way I can describe the sense of relief, joy and sadness - it was as if the heavens parted and the sun shown through. It gave the energy to see us through the journey ahead.
Yeah, I read "The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self" by Bruno Bettelheim and the only word that could be said is "disgusting." What I've heard is that TEACCH has great methods for controlling the environment. I wish I knew more, but what I love is how the similarity of parent involvement that I know of in the intervention I know about. That's great!
As parents, we had gone through a convoluted and arduous journey, that finally led us to Dr. Schopler. After his evaluation, without a word, he took us into his office, looked at us, took a long draw from his pipe, slowly exhaled and then without preamble, said "there is no way you could have caused this."
There is no way I can describe the sense of relief, joy and sadness - it was as if the heavens parted and the sun shown through. It gave the energy to see us through the journey ahead.
websterwb 1 year ago
Yeah, I read "The Empty Fortress: Infantile Autism and the Birth of the Self" by Bruno Bettelheim and the only word that could be said is "disgusting." What I've heard is that TEACCH has great methods for controlling the environment. I wish I knew more, but what I love is how the similarity of parent involvement that I know of in the intervention I know about. That's great!
ABAisSCIENCE 4 years ago