My perfect beautiful son was born March 21, 2006 and coming up on his 6th birthday, I thought it was a perfect time to share his story. He developed typically meeting all his milestones until around 14 months old and then he completely regressed. It was a traumatic time for our family. He started speech therapy first and the therapist told us he was spoiled not autistic. My husband and I kept pushing in spite of all the obstacles we ran into and finally got our son involved in early intervention services and got our diagnosis. And from there on out Szandor has done all the hard work and is constantly showing our family that he is a true hero in every sense of the word. This once silent child is using new words every day which blow my mind regularly but Szandor had never shown any sign of recognizing letters or numbers until the Sunday before last when we sat down to do homework. I was dreading it because homework can be a trial but Szandor in his usual way did something truly spectacular! This precious boy was able to recognize letters and numbers to complete his work with minimal help and then wrote his own name! As I cried tears of joy and thanked God for another beautiful miracle, Szandor just looked at me and smiled like Mom didn't you know. My first blessing and a true hero.

Tasha Bennett
Lebanon, TN