Special Needs Special Life: 3 Keys to Conquer and Experience Peace while Parenting Special Needs Kids

"I distinctly remember one evening, Emma was about three months old, I was taking a bath with one hand on my baby's crib next to me on the floor, to regain some sanity. By then I was in a serious sleep deprived and defeated state. Nothing seemed to help to calm her down. She was still screaming loudly and painfully as she's been doing for the last hour without resolve. The thought suddenly crossed my mind:" I wonder if she's not autistic?". – Autism – a frightening concept I read about for the first time in a magazine a few weeks earlier. I was shocked at my thought and rebuked myself for thinking such things about my beautiful daughter … still crying."

On that day when diagnosis is received … you are also diagnosed, not only your child.

Sharing her own story, Johanni Meiring, a Special Needs Parent, Life Coach and Co-Founder of Parent Reality, provides useful tips and advice in caring for a special needs child.