Steve
I’ll start with Steve, a child who falls within the autism spectrum. I’m starting with him because there are so many “Steves” right now that the conversation about the special needs of autistic children seems to dominate parenting conversations. Steve’s parents divorced when he was seven. Prior to the divorce, they didn’t notice anything particularly unusual about Steve, other than he was a loner in the family. But almost immediately when the parents separated he began dissociating at home and his teachers noticed that he was disorganized and unable to attend to the details of his schoolwork. However, his story-telling abilities and his creative use of language flourished. He began demonstrating [...]