She’s my reason for learning everything I could possibly learn about preparing her for adulthood.
When she quit school in the 8th grade, we discovered she has Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). You’d never know it to meet her, but her struggles were real:
- Ask her to clean her room? Instant panic.
- Expect her to be somewhere at the right time? Hilarious!
- Convince her to go to the movies with her friends? Tears and a tummy ache.
- Get her to talk about the future? Doors slammed and screaming to be left alone.
I needed help. WE needed help.
So I went to work.
I’ve worked with experts from many different fields throughout my career as an instructional designer (I design courses for a living) so I found experts who had the knowledge I needed.
Here’s the thing though. Each expert had a little piece of the knowledge. Nobody could help us with everything.
That’s how YouthStald was born. All of this expert knowledge… in one place. Ready when you need it.