Patricia Stacey

A friend's son has Asperger's Syndrome, a high functioning autism. In addition, my cousin's son also was diagnosed with autism. My cousin has been very active with her son, using what she termed "floor time" with him and has seen strong benefits with him, so much that she has begun speaking to groups about the process. Patricia Stacey felt something was not right with her son, Walker, from birth. She became an advocate for her son, seeking out treatments and therapies to help him. Eventually, she came to use floor time eight times a day with her son. He made incredible progress; in fact, some doctors have told Stacey that perhaps Walker was only pre-autistic, never really autistic at all! Very readable. The changes in Walker, at times, seemed almost unbelievable.… (mehr)