- A family unites to help their son recover from autism.
- How would you feel if your two-year-old child was diagnosed as autistic and mentally retarded? If you were told the child would go into his room and never come out, and be institutionalized by age 17? This was the grim life sentence handed down to Lori and Jim Cairns regarding their son, J.R.
This diagnosis was made in 1996 -- when little was known about autism, few resources were available to help, and hope for recovery was disregarded as a myth, an urban legend. And yet recovery can happen. J.R. is living proof.
Now, for the first time ever, the Cairns family and J.R.s therapists unite to celebrate his recovery and share their story of hope.
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