ALL Parent stories
The vision of Animated Language Learning is to give children with Autism a voice, allowing them to become part of society. Parent stories are an important part of this vision.
Enda and Valerie Dodd made a huge impact on the lives of their two very special boys, Conor and Eoin, who are at the heart of everything we do and a very special part of the parent stories page. We are grateful to the families who are participating in our research allowing the miracle of language to become a reality for children around the world.
Your parent stories are a wonderful affirmation of our work here at Animated Language Learning together with helping all families in need of speech and language for their special needs child.
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We are grateful to families around the world for relating their parent stories of language and speech learning.
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Your speech therapist and developing language. When Val and I look back on the boys' early years, we could remember several specialists who provided communication therapies to the boys. But there was a core to [...]
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Picture Exchange Communication
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