Parents of special needs children aged 2 to 10..?

My local early intervetion program offered a "music and movement" class that I put my speech delayed son in. There were like 8 speech delayed kids in the class and they did things like sing songs, play with silky scarves, march with instruments. Sign language was a big component. The kids were taught to sign/verbalize things during the class.

I don't have this problem anymore, but I remember when my son with Autism was young, and my husband worked full time and went to school full time at the same time, and was gone from the house for 20 hours a day. It got old. When I was pregnant with my son, I had recently prayed and asked God to give me a breakable heart, because I didn't think I was a very compassionate person, and I remember thinking that this child would be my lesson. I learned compassion by going years without regular sleep, and the constant giving, giving, giving, till I was empty and he still needed more. I raged against it, but still, nothing changed - he was still there, needy. All my hard work paid off - he appears perfectly normal today, is and has been on the regular curriculum for years, no longer receives any therapy, and is one of the nicest people I know. He wants to be married and have lots of children, and be a veterinarian. I don't mean to imply, readers, that I have worked harder than the mother above and therefore my son is now complete - his form of autism was relatively mild, and he did not have any complicating factors like mitochondrial disease. We just needed to get his gut in working order, so we could get his diet right, and we did lots of therapy, including touch-pressure, joint-compression therapy, which was the thing that made the most difference for him. And for me.