Heard in places here and there is a newly-coined phrase, “He had a behavior.” Now what, pray tell, does this mean, and why, for Pete’s sake, are people using these words?

A San Francisco area family has made a $50,000 donation to start the SF Bay Area Son-Rise Program Scholarship Fund which helps Bay Area families who have children with autism and special needs.

One of the most serious consequences . . . is the dehumanizing negative evaluations we attach to people when they have been plastered with a damning label. Because we have slapped a label on them, we assume we have identified the essence of this person semantically branded.

The journey of raising a child with special needs is one of ups, downs, ins and outs. Involved is learnng about several systems of care, a different educational system, sorting through what is needed and what is available.