Steps to Empower Families to Access Early Intervention

• By: Bernadette Murphy Bentley, MPA Tufts Medical Center
• October 1st, 2012
• advocacy, autism services, care navigation, early intervention, families, family support, parent empowerment, resource guidance
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In my six years as Autism Resource Specialist in the Center for Children with Special Needs at Floating Hospital for Children in Tufts Medical Center in Boston, I have met with hundreds of families in the moments after their young child receives an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis. Although...