When Susan Butler found out her son, Collin Butler, was diagnosed with autism, she was heartbroken. The news no parent wants to hear set her on a path to help Collin, as well as other kids like him, achieve what seemed impossible. Susan brought Applied Behavioral Analysis (Aba), an effective way to treat young people with autism, to South Carolina, through the South Carolina Early Autism Project, which she started with Collin's preschool teacher, Ann Eldridge, in 1996. The organization offers individualized research-based treatment to thousands of children and young adults from 20 months to 21 years old. "To see the transformation of...
- 2/6/2015
- by Alexandra Zaslow, @alexandrazaslow
- PEOPLE.com
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