Today 's podcast features Dr. Adam Boddison, the Chief Executive of NASEN, which is the National Association for Special Education Needs.

A year ago today, my family and I made the difficult decision to leave our host country of Thailand to return to our home country. Our son, who is profoundly affected by autism and intellectual developmental delay (IDD) was not coping well with lockdown. It made sense to remove him from that stressful environment and into one where he felt most at peace. We thought it would "just be for the summer," but it turned out that COVID had other plans and we were unable to get back. We are now in the US and call ourselves "COVID refugees."

Today the Vice-President of the National Council of Severe Autism, Amy Lutz and I speak about raising children who are profoundly affected by Autism and how it looks so different from parenting our typically developing children in many ways.