Diagnosis autism, not a "spoiled brat"

Earl Holland

Crystal Holman sat in her dining room going over one flash card after another as her 8-year-old son Hayden rattled off the printed words. "This, to, be, an, is, I ... go!" Hayden said. While it might have looked like a fun word game, it meant much more to Crystal and Hayden. Hayden, diagnosed with severe autism at the age of 2, has a vocabulary of more than 8,500 words and can speak French. Hayden's amazing progress, something few people expected outside of the Holman family, recently was recognize ..