Are We There Yet? The Journey of Autistic Children
April 24, 2009 by Rebbekah
Filed under Autism, News from HYTR
It’s the greatest day of your life: the moment the life force from the depths of your belly finds way into the vast real world. The moment you have longed for is finally here, to actually hold and hug with your arms the little wonder that the universe has granted into your life. But something is different, something you can’t put your finger on.
This is the journey for all who have experienced Are We There Yet?, a book that gets to the core of what parents experience in situations just like you. It will be months, maybe years before someone can help you put your finger on it: your beautiful wonderful miracle child has autism.
In a way, it can be a relief – to know that your child is not the “bad seed” or a natural troublemaker. It can be a relief to know that it isn’t a lack of love for you that they admonish those hugs you so desperately want to give them. It is because they simply cannot process such strength of emotion and love as they process data. But the relief is lost with the knowledge that your child will face most things alone, in a world that no one else can quite understand. It’s their world and as their mother or father, you will be their greatest protector, most valued teacher and ultimately their greatest student.
In a compelling account of personal experiences, Are We There Yet? helps parents, grandparents and friends understand that different is not bad. There are ways to learn how to cope, not only for parents, but also for your autistic child. Parents are their children’s biggest advocates and with their undying love and compassion, an autistic child can develop well beyond their social stigma.
Yes! Autistic children can do great things, are capable of great love and have insights into the world most of us would never stop to ponder. It’s all about a viewpoint and when you sit down on the ground and take a look at what they see, you begin to understand. Are We There Yet tells the journey of autistic children but doesn’t stop there. It gives you the insight as their parents to take a breath and start to understand and go on the journey with them!
“Are We There Yet? Coming Full Circle with Autism”
Contents
Part I - Diagnosis
Part II - Treatment
Part III - Diet
Part IV - Family
Part V - Social Community
Part VI - Family Stories
Part VII - Additional Resources
What others are saying about “Are We There Yet?”
| Autism: “Are We There Yet?” is a great resource of personal and professional experience.It helps guide parents/caregivers/family members with everything from initial diagnosis to different therapies to managing day to day life (including some issues that don’t immediately come to mind) to personal testimonials and important resources. Best of all, it gives the reader a sense of empowerment and hope despite the complexities and challenges of autism. | |
| Susan Trost, Wellness Consultant focusing on decreasing environmental toxins and utilizing natural technologies www.livinghealthiernow.com | |
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I have the highest praise for Rebbekah White’s new e-book “Are We There Yet? Coming Full Circle with Autism”. This book is a must read for anyone who has an autistic child in their life or anyone who wants to understand what it’s like to live on a day-to-day basis with a person with autism. Rebbekah has done a wonderful job weaving relevant information and research about autism with her (and others) first-hand experience with the disorder. A wonderfully engaging and informative book and a much needed contribution. Thanks, Rebbekah! |
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| Tina Jo | |
| Rebbekah’s new e-book ‘Are we there yet’ will inspire you with amazing individuals who share their real stories to help you understand more clearly the different aspects of Autism. This is an excellent resource filled with a wealth of information.
Best of luck with this, you are an amazing woman!! Thank you for inspiring me and for the incredible work that you do. |
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| Blessings of Love, Light and Abundance Rosanna Rosanna Ienco, best-selling author of Awakening the Divine Soul - Finding Your Life Purpose. http://www.rosannaienco.com |
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| Comments on different section of eBook:
Common traits: My daughter is a mix of traits from both your boys. The anger, frustration, sleep issues and need for physical reassurance and distance. Diagnosis: Many children are not diagnosed until later in life due to a complete lack of knowledge on the parent’s part. My daughter wasn’t diagnosed until the age of 7, and yes there were signs, but we didn’t recognize them for what they were. My mother, nearly 60, has not been diagnosed yet, but likely has Asberger’s syndrome. Again, a complete lack of knowledge and it destroyed her self esteem. Autism Stereotypes: Thank you for addressing the difference between having Autism and being a Savant while having Autism. My child is not Rain Man, nor is she a complete idiot. Jack Julian as written by his mom: Thank you for sharing about your son’s agression. My daughter has severe aggression and I am afraid for her and for my family if it should continue. This is not a part of autism that we hear about often and I’m sure there are reasons (fear of exclusion, shame and embarassment), but parents like me need to know about other kids with autism who behave this way. Eliminating the source - what causes autism? I can’t agree more and there are more and more of us who think along this line.Because we obviously cannot find ONE reason that so many of our children have Autism, why are we still fighting about it? I personally cut a young man’s hair who was on the lower end of functioning Autism. His mother shared with me how his behaviors changed after getting his immunisations. A few years later, I find that my own daughter’s seemingly irrational behaviors mean she has Autism. However, in our case, she had been this way since birth. Many of their behaviors are the same despite age and gender, yet one was fairly functional at some point before a specific event, the other was never quite functional. You tell me why we should fight about what causes it when we are both dealing with children who act out or (in some cases) don’t act at all? |
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| Jenn Brockman is a single mom of 2 girls, one on the autism spectrum and one with ADHD. She writes for and hosts a radio program advocating for all special needs kids at Special Needs Kids Talk Radio while running her own mineral makeup business. http://specialneedskidstalkradio.com |
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| After reading the “Are We There Yet? Coming Full Circle with Autism” eBook it is clear that Rebbekah’s enthusiasm, personal experience, and knowledge of persons with special needs goes well beyond providing medical information. This is a great resourcee book that is compiled of “real life experiences” which are both compassionate, practical, and informative . I thank her so much for putting to together and making available such a meaningful resource. |
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| Helen C. Hipp, M.A. ~ Certified Personal Life Coach With In U Life Coaching 802.899.2128 ~ 888-240-2250 ~ helen@withinulifecoaching.com |
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| Reading “Are We There Yet” put autism into perspective for me from learning about it in textbooks to understanding what family friends have dealt with for years. While I never held judgment to autistic children, this book helps me have true empathy for the kids and their families. | |
| Kimberlee Leonard www.KimberleeLeonard.com |
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| Thank you Rebbekah, for your compassionate and comprehensive book, “Are We There Yet? Coming Full Circle With Autism”. While my life has not been touched by autism, I have friends and clients who have autistic children and it is a full-time job to care for their children and get them the outside help they need.
I have seen the stress and frustration parents go through because of the confusion that goes along with diagnosis and treatment, and in dealing with the opinions and recommendations of multiple people, many who do not have the personal experience of caring for an autistic child themselves. This book does a wonderful job of clearing up the myths and misinformation parents are subjected to and gives constructive, practical ways to work with your child and get him or her the help needed. The real life stories of parents and their children are inspiring and powerful and create a lot of hope in being able to help autistic children even better in the near future. Rebbekah has written a book that is not only thoroughly researched, but also from extensive personal experience. |
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| Gillian Hood-Gabrielson, MS, ACSM Get your report, “The 6 Steps to Guilt-Fr*e Eating” by visiting http://www.HealthierOutcomes.com |
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All supporters who donate $5.00 will have their website links added to our Recommended Links section on HYTR & HY Magazine plus a special thank you will be sent out to our newsletter as our way of thanking you. Thank you again for all your love and support.Coming Soon Video Newsletters from HYTR
March 10, 2009 by Rebbekah
Filed under News from HYTR
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The power of VIDEO! Those who have been receiving my newsletters will know that HYTR and Heal Yourself Magazine is now using Easy Video Producer! The easiest and fastest way to use video online with no HTML knowledge required, upload and produce your videos with only one click of the mouse! PLUS its FREE to a limited amount of people, so if you are looking for an easy way to add video to your site this is the tool to use!
Enough about Easy Video Producer, I just love to talk about new software and tools that help make my business run faster and smoother I just had to explain a little about the product.
Thanks to this wonderful new technology we will be able to produce video newsletters faster and easier, so be sure to sign up for our new Video newsletters below to receive our first video newsletter in the upcoming week!
I will be introducing you to Buffy Lauer Heal Yourself Network’s new partner and PR Rep!
If you are already receiving our TEXT email issues through Constant Contact, please be sure to sign up to the new Video newsletters as we will be discontinuing our TEXT email’s for this new and exciting form of communication!
You will be able to personally get to know myself and Buffy through our bi-weekly video newsletters plus we will be bringing you new and exciting ideas, tips, shows and product reviews through our video newsletters!
-Rebbekah White
All supporters who donate $5.00 will have their website links added to our Recommended Links section on HYTR & HY Magazine plus a special thank you will be sent out to our newsletter as our way of thanking you. Thank you again for all your love and support.What a week….
November 16, 2007 by Rebbekah
Filed under News from HYTR
The past week has brought on many challenges both in work and in personal life. On Monday my grandmother had a stroke and was admitted to the hospital. Today she is doing much better, she still has a feeding tube in her because she cannot swallow and the stroke has relaxed her facial muscles so its hard for her to talk.
On Sunday I announced the new look at the main site for Heal Yourself Talk Radio. I wanted HYTR to be more interactive, so I changed the whole site over to Word Press, now after you have listened to a show you can go and post your questions or comments about the show you just listened to.
Last week I started another site, that is non-business, called Sister Goddesses Unite this was done for many reasons. #1 I beleive all woman no matter what they do in life they need to learn to take time for themselves and have girl time #2 I was yearning for female companionship, other ladies who feel the same way I do and who have read Mama Gena’s Marriage manual or Mama Gena’s Womanly Arts books and wanted to join me in trying out her suggestions not only in our lives but in our man’s lives as well. Things are a little slow over there right now due to all the chaos that has been going on in my personal life.
It is my hope that before the end of the year though we have our first “Girls Night Out” online. Then hopefully once a month we all meet online and just have fun, talk about our lives, discuss things that are bothering us etc…plain ole girl talk. So join us over at Sister Goddesses Unite. I hope to see you there.
Next Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, Lisa Fredette will be our guest speaker on HYTR and she will be talking about “Divorce Doesn’t Have to Hurt Anymore” for more information about that show and other upcoming shows go over to the main site HYTR and click on Upcoming Shows.
Well that’s all for now on the updates, everyone have a great week. I hope to take tomorrow off to rest, its been a long week 
-Rebecca White-
All supporters who donate $5.00 will have their website links added to our Recommended Links section on HYTR & HY Magazine plus a special thank you will be sent out to our newsletter as our way of thanking you. Thank you again for all your love and support.Changes coming to HYTR
November 1, 2007 by Rebbekah
Filed under News from HYTR
I am sure some of you have noticed the changes that are going on at Heal Yourself Talk Radio. The first change that was made was going to using Wordpress for our blog, then if you are reading this now you see I changed the whole theme of the blog.
In the next couple weeks, HYTR will be going into a whole new site…this new site is going to make HYTR look more professional, easier to navigate and a cleaner more organized site for our speakers and our listeners to navigate around.
I am very excited as HYTR comes into its own once again.
Thank you for your understanding and patience as HTYR goes through another growth spurt.
Since the new site will be using an RSS feed I may decide to not do a newsletter, do not fear I will let all my subscribers know if I decided to do away with the newsletter and tell you how to sign up for our RSS feed so you do not lose out on any of the communications.
If any of you have any suggestions for the new site, what would make it easier to navigate, what features you would like to see, or other ideas or comments please feel free to post them here.
-Rebecca White-
All supporters who donate $5.00 will have their website links added to our Recommended Links section on HYTR & HY Magazine plus a special thank you will be sent out to our newsletter as our way of thanking you. Thank you again for all your love and support.Moving from Blogger to WordPress
August 11, 2007 by Rebbekah
Filed under News from HYTR
I have finally moved my blog from blogger to wordpress. Please be patient as I upload and move all my posts from blogger to wordpress. I tried to import them using the import for WordPress but alas it is not working so it may take me a few days to import all the previous posts.
Now that I have Word Press Past shows will be uploaded to this blog for listeners instead of being on site. This is to help with bandwidth issues etc
Thank you all for understanding and being a loyal listener to Heal Yourself Talk Radio.
Rebecca White
All supporters who donate $5.00 will have their website links added to our Recommended Links section on HYTR & HY Magazine plus a special thank you will be sent out to our newsletter as our way of thanking you. Thank you again for all your love and support.
