I remember when we had our young son he was less than two years old at a child

neurologist's office and after some time the doctors said well it's pretty clear your son is on the spectrum in the next

words he said were really in retrospect awful advice he said ignore most of what

you see and read on the internet and come back in a year.

So my wife and I left with heavy hearts and bewilderment about what's the next step.

If you or a friend have a child with special needs, we're here to help, we get it, and we'd like to encourage you.

I'm John Fuller with Dr. Danny, who heads up our parenting department, and Danny, you've worked with a lot of different families, many of whom have this kind of a situation, a child with special needs, it can be really hard.

I can, yeah. Fatigue is a big one for parents in that season. It's not because they don't love their child. It's just

the reality that there's more required of them depending on what the special need is and there's

a wide spectrum of that, right? And I would say there's so many different types of treatments,

how do you choose the right one for your child, and there's overload for many parents

on trying to choose the right one.

And then the progress is kind of slow as well.

And for some parents, that can be very discouraging.

There are a lot of comparisons to other kids and other families.

And there's emotional discouragement that can settle in and

then the costs of treatment are huge for some of these families that can't necessarily

afford that.

Now there is a lot of help through government funds

and other funds there that can be helpful, but it's still very, very expensive along with time-consuming.

So families many times adjust to this. with time

Just to this but the reality is it can be difficult and it can be very tiring. Yeah. Yeah, and I think well this conversation deals

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