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It Takes an Advocate
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What Becky Heye learned and learned very early on is that nothing comes easily for the parents of a special-needs child. Every child needs an advocate, and the best advocate is always a parent.
Long before diagnoses of autism and autism spectrum were common, Becky knew her son Jason was developing along a different path.
“When he was very young, he didn’t speak,” Becky says. “I thought that by age 2, he should be forming words. But he was my first child, so I didn’t really have a comparison. When I asked pediatrician, he said children all develop at their own rates.”