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Revolutionary grandparents

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What’s it like to be part of a very special family, one that revolves around a child’s struggle with autism or a related developmental disorder?
In Revolutionary Grandparents: Generations Healing Autism with Love and Hope, 20 grandmothers and grandfathers tell their touching stories.
Many of the grandparents, whose names range from Crackle and Pop to Rembrandt and from Yee Haw to Za Za, have moved in with their children and grandchildren to help with daily challenges. From this front-row seat they recount the stories of their families as they experience them.
They describe what it was like to watch their grandchildren regress into autism, and they recount the successes as well as the challenges they face. No two stories are alike in their details, but each one is similar in its honesty, passion, and overwhelming hope.
Among this special group of grandparents is Dan Burton, former congressman from Indiana, who gives a very passionate and personal account of his experience with his grandson and his hopes for autism research and government response in the future.