At the Asia-Pacific Autism Conference 2025 in Perth, Australia (#APAC2025), I sought to be my profoundly autistic son's voice in highlighting the need to respect his profound neurodivergence. This includes recognizing that his nonverbal communication is his native language — expressing his emotions with his body, rather than his words. This expression is integral to his nature. We need to level our communication playing field to connect with them authentically and help allev

Unlike traditional autism treatment approaches, EpiEco is not about normalizing the profoundly autistic individual. Rather, it places the responsibility of change on us — the caregivers (be it specialists, educators, and family) and the public. The focus is on transforming caregivers into a robust Ecosystem of committed champions of the profoundly autistic individual at the Epicenter, hence the name, EpiEco. 

Sebastien, my non-verbal autistic son, painted Crack’d Me when he was fifteen, highlighting his sense of estrangement from society.

That’s why we developed EpiEco (Autistic Individual as the EPIcenter of the ECOsystem) -- an approach that is responsive to autistic persons

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This post features Chapter 19 of my 25-chapter book, Where Does My Autistic Son Belong? (Links to all other chapters are below) A Special...

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