Next Steps for Mia, Down to the Nitty-Gritty

The Autism Education Summit provided face-to-face connections with potential resources for parents who must find the next steps or overall plans for their children’s health. Those connections are very important.

Parents perform web searches, make phone calls, attend doctors’ appointments, and talk with other parents through social media.  It may take weeks if not months to have all the information needed to make a well informed decision on a course of action.

In contrast, this photo represents something that rarely (if ever) happens outside a venue like this summit. Terra, in an unscripted and unplanned moment:
            1. Had  access to multiple professional categories simultaneously

            2. Professionals talking face-to-face with other professional discussed the viability of specific treatments for a specific child

            3. As a result of that discussion, Terra walked away with a plan in about twenty minutes versus weeks or months.  Granted, she had done a great deal of research beforehand that catalyzed the outcome.

Above, we have a Terra, Dr. Jerry Kartzinel of Karzinel Wellness Center, Samir Patel - CEO of OxyHealth, and Annie Sidner of Nourishing Hope.  The camera angle only captured Annie’s hands, but she is pictured below, taken earlier as Terra and Annie walked through previously attempted therapies.

Left - Annie Sidner of Nourishing Hope