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About Us
This site was put together for the love of our three year old son
Robert (photo right). Robert was a healthy baby, he was born weighing 9lb
7oz. There was no complications with the birth and Jen and I were
happy to start raising our third child. Everything seemed to be
going fine, all well care visits were normal. At the age of 15
months he starting talking saying such things as dada, mama, nana
and even once and a while papa. But as soon as Robert turned 16
months old all things came to a screeching halt. He starting making
strange sounds not responding to us calling him and the few words
that he had been saying were not coming out anymore. Jen and I
thought he might have a hearing problem because he did have a couple
of ear infections. We had him checked by two specialists and they
said his hearing was normal. We went one step further and had the
county come in to see if he needed speech therapy.
This is when the bomb shell was dropped in our laps. Jen and I found
out that our healthy little boy was AUTISTIC. I had never
heard of autism before except in the movie RAINMAN. I had no clue
what it was if there was a cure, Nothing. We found out that there is
no cure but that the county had a program of early intervention and
that would help with Robert's road to a somewhat normal life. Well
its been over a year and a half with therapists coming 5 days a
week and Jen and I juggling schedules to make it happen for Robert.
We are seeing a major difference in him in that time, and he is
starting to come out of his own world and back into ours.
If
it wasn't for the hard work of Ralph Barone (Team Leader), Rosaria (aba therapist)
Christina (speech therapist) and Kelly (occupational therapist) and
their team work who knows where we would be with Robert now.
Jen and I would like to say from the bottom of our hearts THANK YOU
to all of you.
The items that are on our website are all about Autism. We want to
get the word out about AUTISM AWARENESS and raise money so that one
day we can find a cure. A portion of all sales are distributed to
autism chapters and charities all over. For all the parents out
there that have children with autism just remember that we are:
THE VOICE OF AUTISM!!
Thank you and God Bless,
Bob Boe
Father of Robert
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