Rain Maker

Here's a great story and video of an autistic high school senior who scored 20 points in the only game of his varsity career. 

Many of you don't know that I have an autistic child.  This is a picture of him just a few days ago.  He's seven and his name is Jack.

Comments

[Denny Burk]

Hey, bro. No I didn't know that. My wife is a speech pathologist, and she worked at a center that specialized in helping autistic children. She did this for three years while we lived in Louisville.

[jason]

I caught that story on ESPN the other night. It was a pretty amazing scene.

[Ellen]

This is my 9th year working with students with autism. I can't imagine doing anything else.

[Joe Thorn]

Awesome story man. Hey, did Jack see the "black" Spiderman suit for the new movie?

[Steve McCoy]

Yeah, he is very excited about the black suit Spidey.

[Michael Foster]

My mother, a special needs teacher, had an austistic student in her class that was a year younger than me in 7th grade. He had an incredible mind but was so anti-social and couldn't stand physical contact that he would really turn me off. My mother tried everything to help him overcome all this and thankfully his parents were very involved in the process. Eventually, she found that her guinea pig had captured his imagination and for the first time he longed to be in physical contact with something. So his parents bought him a guinea pig and it became a gateway to all sorts of growth for him. We moved away and lost contact with him until my senior year. I was at a wrestling match and got approached by this huge wrestler (about 215 lb). He ask if I knew who we was, which at that time made me assumed I had done something bad to this guy. But it turned out to be my mother's old student. He had became really social, likable, and was even wrestling. I stood in awe of his transformation.

[Benji Ramsaur]

I caught the story on the News and was blown away. I ended up calling my Dad (who worked with the mentally handicapped for over 27 years) and told him about. Great story.

[sled dog]

Yeah, that was a great story. My son with Down Syndrome is a huge hoops fan and has been known to drain free throw after free throw. We play one-on-one in the driveway almost every day.