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Giving autism a voice 		   
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Giving autism a voice

Tyler Lazaruk works with a facilitator to communicate
"I just love looking as if I know something. Look at me. Realize how under pressure. I just have hope now." At a keyboard with the aid of a facilitator, 24-year-old autistic Tyler Lazaruk tapped each letter one by one to form these words. His shocked parents looked on and cried with tears of joy and disbelief.

"These are his first words to us ever. This is the first time in his life that he has expressed a thought," said Tyler's father Clarence Lazaruk. "It's in there, but he just can't get it out. This is obviously how he's going to do it."

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10/16/2007by: shannonj
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