The author conducts a support group for 20 Jewish parents (ten couples) of children diagnosed with autism. The author finds that for parents struggling with or living with the diagnosis of a child with autism, the experience presents challenges to their faith system and belief in God. This informal, or embedded, theology-based on the theological assumptions they make both consciously and unconsciously about the way and the why the world works as it does-collapses in light of their changed reality. The support group enables parents in such a predicament to explore their faith...
The author conducts a support group for 20 Jewish parents (ten couples) of children diagnosed with autism. The author finds that for parents struggl...