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About Amalia Starr
Amalia Starr is a motivational speaker, independent living coach, educator, advocate, and mother of an adult son with autism. She developed a step-by-step life-changing program for children with autism and special needs to reach maximum independence.
Starr’s newly released book, Raising Brandon is quickly becoming a manual for parents who have children and adults with autism and special needs. The book informs, educates, and offers hope to a generation of parents struggling for answers.
Starr writes about raising a child in the 1970’s when autism was unheard of. She shares how she discovered Brandon had Asperger’s when he was thirty-two years old. Even without knowing what her son had, she put together a life-changing program, which led Brandon to independence.
The experience and wisdom Starr has gained from being on the autism and special needs path for all these years will be extremely helpful to parents whose children have been newly diagnosed. If you are just starting out with a newborn or toddler and you sense something is wrong and you do not know what to do, Starr’s practical advice, answers, solutions, and tips will be of great help to you. Her honesty and non-judgmental way allows parents to feel more comfortable and to open up. She has been where you are and she knows how to help you.
For more information, please visit www.AmaliaStarrSpeakerAutism.com.
