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Kimberlee Rutan McCafferty

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in Providence, RI, The United States

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http://www.autismmommytherapist.wordpress.com/

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Kimberlee Rutan McCafferty is the mother of two sons on the autism spectrum. Her writing, featured in Exceptional Parent Magazine, Autism Parenting Magazine, the Patch network of community information websites, and on her blog autismmommytherapist is grounded in her experiences as an educator, stay-at-home mom/therapist, and advocate. She has also authored and produced a play about mothers of autistic children and has served on the Family Partners Program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, which is part of the Autism Speaks-supported Autism Treatment Network.

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All Aboard the Polar Express

We huddle together on the platform, my mom, our family friend who is our BCBA fairy godmother, my profoundly autistic twenty-two-year-old son, and me. We are minutes away from boarding the sensory-friendly car of the Whippany Polar Express, on a frigid but relentlessly sunny day at the end of December. My son nestles into me […]

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Raising Autism: Surviving the Early Years

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Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

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Kimberlee Rutan McCafferty wrote a new blog post All Aboard the Polar Express We huddle together on the platform, my mom, our family friend who is our BCBA fairy godmother, my profoundly autistic twenty-two-year-old son, and me. Read more of this blog post »
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