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About Me

My name is Laura Behrendt and I am a proud mom to 3 children.
Each of my children are individuals and are unique in their own way. But my most unique is my middle child, she has autism. My beautiful little child was diagnosed at the age of 19 months; soon she will be 5 years old.
I had to work very hard and very quickly to help educate her and give her the tools that she needed to blossom. When I was unable to find the materials I needed to help her learn, I began to make my own. By putting myself in her perspective, I was able to create books, games and other visual aids that she could relate to. Thankfully, she has responded to my efforts and she is doing extremely well.
I have my own website:

www.AutismShopper.com


Please visit my site if you wish to see the educational materials I have created for my child and others like her.
You will be amazed at your child's potential.
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My goal is to connect with other parents, family members, friends and educators of children with Autism.
I learn so much from them and they have been my greatest strength and resource for helping my child.
I love hearing what other parents are doing and how they are managing to cope with their child's issues.

My Blog

A different point of view

So the other night we were playing in the livingroom building roads for cars to drive on.  We have these wooden tracks that hook together.  I said to my Maggie, "Look!  It's an "8"!,&nb...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:47:00 GMT

The Birthday Invitation

It had never occured to me that my daughter had never been invited to a birthday party, until today.  You see... today is the day she came home and would not let ME open her backback. SHE wanted ...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:05:00 GMT

Wonder - Lyrics by Natalie Merchant

"WONDER"Doctors have come from distant cities just to see me stand over my bed disbelieving what they're seeing they say I must be one of the wonders of god's own creation and as far as they see they ...
Posted by on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:09:00 GMT

Houston, we have acheived potty training!

Oh yes! We have actually acheived complete potty training success for #1 and #2! We still need to work on the overnight thing. But for the daytime... we are all done! No accidents, nothing. I am so pr...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:57:00 GMT