Not simply play

05/25/11 • 9 min

Three years ago Autism Speaks awarded Dr. Pamela Wolfberg of California State University at San Francisco the 2008 Research Award for Clinical Research for a project using Wolfberg’s Integrated Play Groups™ (IPG) model. This research involved typical children playing with children with Autism at an after school program. Now that research project is completed, Mariel Goldberg, age 9 ¾, one of the expert players that participated in the project joins me to share some of the things she and the other participants learned. (Full disclosure, Mariel is also my youngest daughter.)

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How do you stand back and let your grown child go out into the world? Does it tug at your heart? Now add to your emotions the fact that your child was born with autism and you have been very closely guiding his progress for 19 years. That’s what Ellen Notbohm is going through as she is watching her son Bryce graduate from high school. Bryce views himself as “a man, not a man with autism”. Ellen has written about Bryce in her three books and has been a frequent guest on the Autism Briefing Room, speaking about autism and her family’s journey. Ellen Notbohm letting go.