How Facebook Helps Parents Of Children With Autism

With one out of every 110 children receiving diagnoses of autism, parents are finding answers to questions about the neurological disorder on Facebook.

With one out of every 110 children receiving diagnoses of autism, parents are finding answers to questions about the neurological disorder on Facebook.

Many parents are finding that just posting questions about everything from diet, to finding health-care practitioners in their areas, to locating appropriate schooling for their child with autism, can be answered via Facebook.

Like parent Dolores Wilson says:

I am the mother of a newly diagnosed child who is two-and-a-half years old. My husband and I knew something was wrong with our child and we didn’t want to turn a blind’s eye.

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