Autism Resource Center of Kokomo

02/28/2026

Working with a family who is looking for a new pediatrician that is great with kids on the spectrum. Please only post names of potential doctors- not looking to bash anyone on social media. Thank you 💙

07/03/2023

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For those of you who remember the story about my friend Matt, who got to meet country singer, Walker Hayes last year....you are going to love this update!

Matt has been volunteering at the airport for the past year. Well, last week when he was volunteering, he bumped into Walker Hayes! Walker recognized Matt first and yelled "Matt!!!" How does this even happen?! 🤣

Once again, Walker was an absolutely kind human being. Genuinely happy to see this young man with special needs, who is one of his biggest fans. I mean, Walker is the "salt of the earth" kind of guy. Seeing Matt's excitement....oh man...it's everything! And guess what?! We are heading to see Walker Hayes in concert in Minnesota in less than 2 weeks...with meet & greet passes again! We are SO excited! 🎉

Thank you so much Walker & Matt....for showing what "be a kind human" means. ❤️

Walker Hayes

12/30/2022

“Every step forward, no matter how small, counts!” The small steps eventually lead to big steps.

"Yesterday I dropped my son off at Target so he could do a little shopping.

This might seem like no big deal to you.

I get it. Before I lived alongside autism, an 18-year old walking across a parking lot and into a store on his own wouldn't have turned my head either.

But two short years ago, this boy Jack reached for my hand when whenever we went out in public.

Three years ago he refused to walk into any store that played classical music over the speakers.

Five years ago, he had a meltdown in this very same Target because we couldn't find the holiday M&M's.

Today, watching him walk through the doors, I could have wept.

Every step forward, no matter how small, counts. It simply does."

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09/09/2022

Children's TV show "Thomas & Friends" is introducing its first autistic character, in a bid to diversify on-screen representation.

07/31/2022

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) -- The Autism Society of Indiana has set out to equip first responders in 60 Indiana counties with communication boards. The hope: Help police better serve people who have autism or are nonverbal. So far, the nonprofit

06/11/2022

😔 Anxiety is very common in autism.
A meta-analysis showed that almost 40% of kids with autism have at least one comorbid anxiety disorder. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10567-011-0097-0

The article below will discuss symptoms, calming strategies, medical and non-medical reasons for anxiety, and supplements and medications that can help alleviate it. We hope you find it helpful.

➡ https://tacanow.org/family-resources/anxiety-in-autism/

05/16/2022

Education leads to understanding.

via Joy of Autism

03/06/2022

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02/13/2022

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I've written a good deal about the fact that autistic development is not, as I once erroneously thought, typical development on some kind of tape delay. It is, in fact, a different developmental trajectory all together.

Rather than call Brooke's neurological development “disordered,” however, I've long preferred to refer to it as Brooke-ordered. She does what she does on her own schedule and in her own way.

She started using concrete "Wh" questions (What, Where, Who) in earnest at age eight. If I recall correctly, the first real "Why" questions showed up when she was about ten. Thus, we never had the endless string of typical toddler "Why? Why? Why?" It just wasn't part of her journey.

Until one day, a month before her fourteenth birthday. That day, my girl found her way back over terrain that she'd simply wound her way around before. That day, my girl spent the entire day asking 'Why?'

Every answer was met with another 'Why?' Then another still. She grinned and giggled as she asked again - 'WHY? WHY? WHY?'

I rolled my eyes in wildly exaggerated mock exasperation. I grinned back and laughed with her. And I answered every single 'Why?'

There was a time when, in moments like those, I'd click my heels and declare that my girl was "catching up." She wasn’t. There's nothing to catch up to. Because wasn’t “behind.” She was never “behind.” She was just walking her very own path, as she has every day since.

Why?

Because she's Brooke. And she’s living life in her very own order.

{image is a photo of the two of us from yesterday, standing on a small dock above a bend in the Charles River. I am smiling and she is laughing.}

10/08/2021

"Sesame Street" is offering up a host of new resources designed to help children with autism and their families.

07/31/2021