When my four-year-old autistic daughter went to a birthday party for a friend she met at therapy, she not only surpassed my expectations; she crushed them into dust. Bonus: I got to hang out with a mom who gets us.

In honor of October being AAC Awareness Month, truly amazing programs are offering free and discounted tools for kids that could benefit from AAC.

Many schools that claim to support autistic students only want “high functioning” five-year-olds in their kindergartens. They mean kids who speak out loud.