Book brings insight for families living with autism
The Autism News | English
Sandy Howarth contacted Mental Healthy to enable her to share the story of her remarkable life with her autistic son.
“Living with autism is a challenge to most families but living in our world is a greater challenge to an individual with autism – help them in their journey through life” Sandy told Mental Healthy.
Sandy Howarth is a mother who sacrifices everything with a hope of finding help for her son Steven. The author’s son is diagnosed with autism at two and a half years of age.
She and her family live in Dubai at the time when she realises that nothing could ever compare to the trauma that she has had to endure in learning that her beautiful son suffers from Autism. This comes at a time when she is contemplating returning to work as an Interior Designer. Sandy, having graduated with honours from Parsons School of Design – New York City, had intentions of a full time career in Interior Design. However, the shock of the diagnosis pushes her to abandon any thoughts of a career as she takes it upon herself to teach her son at home.
She uses her creative skills to produce material to encourage Steven to learn and educates herself on the various teaching strategies and the subject of Autism. Sandy works continuously with her son to see rapid progress in him learning new skills.
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