Quotes by Claire Scovell LaZebnik

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

Dont think that theres a different, better child hiding behind the autism. This is your child. Love the child in front of you. Encourage his strengths, celebrate his quirks, and improve his weaknesses, the way you would with any child. You may have to work harder on some of this, but thats the goal.

I love science. I hate supposition, superstition, exaggeration and falsified data. Show me the research, show me the results, show me the conclusions - and then show me some qualified peer reviews of all that.

When our sons autism was diagnosed at the age of 2, there was no clear prognosis. We didnt even know if hed ever learn to talk. But we found talented people to work with him and he improved, slowly at first and then more rapidly.