{"id":80,"date":"2012-06-23T12:25:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T12:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2012-06-23T12:25:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T12:25:33","slug":"becoming-remarkably-able-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/23\/becoming-remarkably-able-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Remarkably Able – the book"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RemarkablyAbleCover\"<\/a>What a catchphrase for today, and for all of us who parent adults with autism – Becoming Remarkbly Able<\/a>, by Dr. Jackie Marquette.\u00a0 I hear her speak at an autism conference and marveled at the growth she achieved with her son Trent.\u00a0 Even more notable is that Trent’s autism in many ways is the classic kind.\u00a0 No offense intended to anyone, but with higher functioning autistic individuals who can speak, write, drive cars and attend college – it’s easy to profile their achievements, because they are much like our own.\u00a0\u00a0 Less common is the celebration of the more challenged.\u00a0 Trent, from Jackie’s accounts, has needs which she characterizes as “significant.”\u00a0 Yet at the time I attended the conference,\u00a0Trent’s artwork business as sold on greeting cards and prints was flourishing to the point he was acheiving\u00a0a little steady income stream from it enough to pay for a portion of his living needs, if I recall correctly.\u00a0\u00a0 That’s absolutely huge,\u00a0at least for\u00a0parents like me who struggle to help our teens and young adults acheive\u00a0gainful employement, and worry about their life path without it.\u00a0\u00a0Trent and Jackie are\u00a0a beacon\u00a0 as I work to uncover the unique strengths in my guys.<\/p>\n

Listen to the acceptance and love for what is unique in her son, from the publisher’s description of Jackie’s book:<\/p>\n

“The Walking the Path Model\u00a9 is a system of ongoing assessment and action steps that promote the individual\u2019s participation, emotional support, and growth. WP is about identifying talents and strengths, then transferring them into tangible forms. It\u2019s all about finding and pursuing that hobby, that activity, that job, or that subject to study which makes the heart sing. How can this be done when a person\u2019s needs are significant? Supports are identified and negotiated to help lift and link the individual to full involvement and participation.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like an old\u00a0friend just rediscovered, I’m eager to pore through Becoming Remarkably Able.\u00a0\u00a0 We are all remarkably able, if we have the vision to see it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a catchphrase for today, and for all of us who parent adults with autism – Becoming Remarkbly Able, by Dr. Jackie Marquette.\u00a0 I hear her speak at an autism conference and marveled at the growth she achieved with her son Trent.\u00a0 Even more notable is that Trent’s autism in many ways is the classic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twinmommeetsautism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}