Devon Orland, the mother of twin boys Robert and Collin, knew she had to do something. Robert, who was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, was performing well in elementary school, but in a few years would be off to middle school. Support for children with Asperger’s or autism—now called Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)—was almost nonexistent in public schools. As she spoke with other parents of children “on the spectrum,” Orland realized she was not alone in her concerns.
“I had a friend who was going through the process of her son entering middle school,” she recalls, “and [her son] was really struggling with it because for the first time in his educational career, they were trying to put him in a contained classroom.”
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