Alternative Child Development Specialist & Naturalist interview eachother on the topic of empathy in child development and in nature, especially with relationship to the autism epidemic.. This is a small selection of our conversation, the transcript of which may be made available upon request.
The prevalence of Autism is increasing year-after-year, and is growing at an ever alarming rate. For example in California in the year 1970 Autism occurred in about one out of every 2,500 births, it then rose to 1 in 250 in the year 1999, and now some experts say that it occurs in one out of ever 100 births.
It’s true that a lot of insight has come from the likes of western science and has produced a working symptomology on the topic. It is not my intention to demean this incredible labor of research. Theirs has been a labor of love. My gratitude is incalculatable as are its benefits. By now we are familiar with the western symptomology.
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
