Author name: Shannon Des Roches Rosa

Shannon Rosa is the senior editor and co-founder of Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism, an autism and neurodiversity information and advocacy nexus. Her writing and speaking about disability and parenting are in the Washington Post, Spectrum, and NPR. She lives in California with her family.

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How Parents Can Identify and Avoid Harmful Autism Treatments

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A child’s autism diagnosis can addle parents’ hearts and minds. Media portrayals of children with autism and their adult spectrum-mates dwell almost exclusively on negatives and challenges, so when a parent is told that their child is autistic, they are usually incredibly upset. It doesn’t help when doctors lack the bedside manner to soften the […]

The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism

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A Community Book and Blog Project  The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism (TPGA) is the book and website we wish had been available when our children with autism were first diagnosed. We want to help people with autism and their families make sense of the bewildering array of available autism treatments and options, and determine

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