Maritza is a wife and mother who has gone through a myriad of issues raising a child with severe autism. She has over 15 years working in health care, is a self taught researcher on autism and mental health and an autism parent support coach/mentor. She graduated from Liberty University with a degree in psychology and a masters diploma in biblical counseling. Autism in our Home inspires you to be a better parent and teaches you skills to manage your home better. At the age of eight months, Maritza's son Jaiden, begins to have seizures unexpectedly. He was hospitalized and diagnosed with a rare form of epilepsy. A little over a year later, Jaiden is diagnosed with Level 3 autism. Maritza stays hopeful and explains the journey into the world of being a special needs mom. Here in this book, is the help you need to confront your own fears and an outline of strategies to help you through the many trying times that parents will go through when they have a child with autism. Maritza provides an action plan focusing on:
Accepting the new normal for your life
Constructive therapies for your child with autism
How to let God help you in the everyday battles
Resource page with tons of helpful information
Maritza believes in spite of all the difficulties we face in life, when we become our childs best advocate, make small changes daily, and use God to be our guide, we find clarity and peace.
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Jaiden was diagnosed with a rare form of epilepsy at age eight months. My mind was going round and round about what did I do wrong? It came out of nowhere, he just started having seizures in his carseat one day while I was on the phone with a coworker talking about work. I looked over and Jaiden was hunched over, drooling with his eyes rolling back into his head. I worked in health care and I felt something in my gut telling me something wasn’t right with Jaiden to begin with after birth and then as a young mother I wasn’t educated enough I didn’t know enough to make wise decisions for my son. I went to the emergency room in avon lake, ohio and they transferred us both to the main campus cleveland clinic. There they did several tests on Jaiden and diagnosed him with a rare form of epilepsy. I knew that our life was going to change drastically and it scared me to death, I became anxious and severely depressed. I don’t know how I managed to keep going, but I did keep going. I went home with Jaiden and began a journey of being a parent of a child with special needs. Over those next few months people from my job were angels. They brought us gifts for Christmas, money for food, prayers and visits galore. I was so very grateful to them and still am for all they helped us with.
In November of 2008 Jaiden was almost 2 years old, we had an appointment scheduled with the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Autism to test his development early in the morning. Jaiden’s pediatrician saw some red flags at his well child check up and referred the family to go to the center. Jaiden had to go through three long hours of testing which included testing in areas of speech, fine and gross motor skills and pre-academic skills. By the end of the testing, Jaiden was diagnosed with Autistic Disorder. I wanted to die and felt like someone punched me in the stomach. I walked out of that office and sobbed like a baby.
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