Category: advocacy

• Grab a Diet Coke: No school days are our problem solving days.

  We get the coffee, donuts, diet coke, happy meal, special toy, and we keep trying to solve problems bite by bite. Cold calling and asking for help (aka advocating) and problem solving on no school days has been our routine since our children’s infancy. These are the hardest days, but also the days where we…

  annechamland

  November 5, 2025

  advocacy, Public Places, Public School, Relationships, Sensory Issues

  advocacy, Autism, Autism Family, Family, health, Mental Health, Neurodiversity, parenting, Public Places, Research

• Thank you to the Autism advocates out there providing truth and facts.

  Here is a list of Advocates I am thankful for who share facts validated by science with the Autism community. The truth is Robert Kennedy, United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, is not telling the truth or using science to support his statements. Read on if you would like more information about RFK’s…

  annechamland

  September 24, 2025

  advocacy, Family, RFK, Robert F Kennedy, safety, Tylenol

  Autism, Autism Family, Neurodiversity

• IEP Meetings: Big decisions, information briefly in hand, fleeting staff.

  It’s become common to receive IEP or any major documents an hour before meetings with long-lasting decisions for our girls. Then we are expected to make huge decisions on the spot while staff members floated in and out. Ridiculous.

  annechamland

  May 20, 2025

  advocacy, Public School

  advocacy, Autism, Autism Family, education, IEP, Mental Health, Neurodiversity, parenting, Public School