Dr. Rita Eichenstein is a licensed neuropsychologist and the author of the award-winning book, Not What I Expected: Help and Hope for Parents of Atypical Children.
Dr. Rita offers us the perspective she gained from working with thousands of children with special needs and their parents as a clinician. She explains what happens hormonally and neurologically when we have kids and receive their autism diagnosis.
Listen to this episode as Dr. Rita demystifies the grief process you might be going through with the special needs diagnosis of your kids.
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