by Margarita Tartakovsky
 
“Stress is part of every parent’s life. But the experience of stress for parents who have a child on the autism spectrum is more frequent and more enduring than that of many other parents, “says Sandra L. Harris, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus and founder of the
Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center at Rutgers University, whose research [...]

Parents of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder experience disappointments, sadness, loneliness, exhaustion and tremendous amounts of stress. I felt all of this as I watched the words come out of my doctor’s mouth. I watched his lips move as I strained to hear him through the screaming alarms going off in my head. Tears [...]