Claire E. Hughes-Lynch

I am an Associate Professor of Special Education at the College of Coastal Georgia where I teach in an integrated Elementary/Special Education teacher preparation program. I have a doctorate in gifted education and special education from the College of William and Mary and was recently a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University, studying autism. Most importantly, I am the mother of two children, "Elizabeth"- who is 8 years old and after an awful lot of therapy, no longer qualifies for a label of Pervasive Developmental Delay-Not Otherwise Specified (PDD-NOS), and "Raymond"- who is 7 years old and has Generalized Anxiety Disorder- Not Otherwise Specified (GAD-NOS) and Tourette's Syndrome. I've changed their names in this book for their own privacy sakes... They don't care now, but they will when they're in middle school...

I am also the author of this book that integrates both aspects of my life, "Children with High Functioning Autism: A Parent's Guide". I've sat at both sides of that IEP table, and I fully believe that both professionals and parents have a lot to learn from each other.