Status: Draft v0.
About Waylight Parents
Waylight Parents is a navigation guide for parents and caregivers of children ages 0–21 with autism, ADHD, ODD, anxiety and learning disabilities in the United States. It points to official sources: early intervention, school rights, benefits and funding.
What we do not do
- We do not diagnose, and we do not recommend treatment.
- We do not take money from clinical providers for referrals, leads or ranking.
- We do not refer to stem cell or other unproven treatments.
- We do not give legal advice.
Status
This is an early version. No partner link is live yet, and qualified reviewers are not in place yet. See the editorial policy.
Why I built Waylight Parents
I'm the mother of twin boys. One of them, my 9-year-old son, is autistic.
Around the age of 3, I started to feel that something was wrong. He didn't play with other children, only with his twin brother.
He was diagnosed at 4 as high-functioning. But from age 5 he regressed, and today he is low-functioning. This is called regressive autism.
Right after the diagnosis I started learning ABA and everything I could about autism. We tried speech therapy, a speech-language pathologist, light therapy, medication, and even umbilical cord blood treatment.
So much of what I needed, I had to piece together on my own, one website and one phone call at a time. I built Waylight Parents so other parents can find it in one place, with official sources, and with fewer late nights of searching.
Please tell me what's missing. All I can do is try my best to help you through this, one step at a time.
— Mom and founder of Waylight Parents
Sharing my family's journey is not a recommendation of any treatment. Every child is different. Please discuss options with your child's clinicians.
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