Firstly; this website was created by husband and wife, Jason & Erin who have a high functioning autistic child with ADHD. Our sole aim is to help others living with, and/or have children/relatives with autism find the help they need. We do not claim to be experts but we do have useful information to pass onto others, something that wasn’t available to us during our struggle to find help for our son!

Our Story

We suspected our son was autistic from the age of three, he exhibited all the signs of the disorder but we had a hard time getting him diagnosed because academically he was on par, leaving us feeling the system has let our son down really badly!

Because it did not affect him academically, no further help was available to us; from Rainbows, the school district or our family doctor; his doctor at the time described him as “quirky” refusing to give us a referral to someone who could help. We finally got a lead half way through Conner’s kindergarten year when one of the teaching para’s put us onto The Therapy Center who finally diagnosed our son at 5 ½ years of age. Since then we have got our son into regular speech and occupational therapy sessions at Heartspring, which he graduated from in May 2012 after two years of therapy. We also receive SSI benefits, which comes along with the added bonus of Medicaid insurance, although we have an ongoing battle with the Social Security Administration to keep these benefits!

What we are looking to achieve?

Our aim is to create a website resource for autism with first hand accounts from people living with autism or have children with living with autism. In time we hope to be have a number of members posting blogs about their experiences living with autism. Additionally we’d also like to arrange meetups for parents and children in and around the Wichita, KS area, anyone who has lived with autism knows that making friends can be tough going, and as parents of an autistic child, it’d be nice to talk to others dealing with the same struggles, being a parent of an autistic child can be somewhat lonely. Despite autism affecting 1 in 88 children, there is still a stigma attached to the disorder.