opportunities.

So here's the deal. I went to an Autism + ABA seminar today presented by Dr. Tarbox is the Director of Research and Development for CARD (Center for Autism and Related Disorders). CARD was founded by one of the leading ABA specialists in the country and their main goal is to help teach and recover children from autism. During his seminar, Dr. Tarbox spoke about how CARD has developed the most extensive curriculm ever created for ABA and children. Some 4,000 tasks that every child needs to know between the ages of 0-7. They took that curriculum and put it online and are in the process of launching this very new and innovative software. All of it is completely tailored to each child and really the opportunities of this software and curriculum is endless.


Dr. Tarbox told us the curriculum is set to launch in Jaunary but they will begin a beta version for parents and some schools starting hopefully in November. So I asked him directly how I could get on that list. He told me to email him and he could sure see what he could do. So afterwards I did speak with him a bit, he gave me his card and told me to email him for more info on it. I don't know if he was simply just being nice and I have NO chance of ever being involved with the beta version of this...but I don't care. I emailed him anyway tonight explaining our situation....how impossible it is to FIND treatment out here, let alone curriculum....and with a quick prayer sent it off.

Yes, this will be available to the general public in January and they haven't set a price on it yet but I can assure you it will NOT be cheap. In fact, I doubt it will be ANYWHERE near afforable.

Please pray that we will be given this opportunity for Maddy. That God would make this happen. Pray. Pray. Pray. The opportunities that this would bring would be endless. The stress level for finding the best curriculum and resources for Maddy would go down immensly! I really can't begin to stress how much of a gift this would be. Sure, we would still need to do TONS of work and it sure wouldn't recover her without all of my wonderful friends and prayers and lots of hard hard work. It would just be one less thing to worry about.

Pray.

I will keep you updated.