A youth soccer coach in Camden County took the Awareness Program training and rebuilt his practice sessions. Three seasons later his team includes five players with autism — and it is the league’s most oversubscribed.
Coach Ray on Building an Autism-Friendly Team
“Quiet warm-ups, a visual schedule on the fence, and nobody gets left on the bench. That’s the whole secret.”
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“For the first time somebody asked what I wanted to do with my day, not what I couldn’t do.”
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“I called on a Tuesday afternoon and by Thursday I had three names, and one of them had an opening.”
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“The wellness coaching wasn’t about Liam at all. It was about us being able to keep going.”
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“I learned to cook four meals. Now it’s eleven.”
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The Nguyen Family: Finding Community After a Late Diagnosis
“We thought we were the only ones. Then we walked into the conference and there were two thousand of us.”
