On Special Assignment
Autism and
Alleluias
An Interview with Kathleen Bolduc
By Christine Field, TOS Special Needs Review Consultant
TOS: Welcome, Kathleen. At what
point in your parenting did you realize
that God was going to teach you some
powerful lessons?
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I came to parent-
ing with visions of
all the wonderful
things I was
going to teach my children. The
greatest surprise is all I have
learned as a mother.
I expect Kathleen
Bolduc shares this sentiment. This mother
of a son with autism shares what
she has learned
about God’s unconditional love in her
newest book, Autism &
Alleluias (Valley Forge,
PA, Judson Press, 2010).
KATHLEEN: I think I knew the
very first moment I held my firstborn
son in my arms. He opened his eyes
and looked at me with this age-old
expression that said, “I know you.”
That could only be God, communicating through a newborn. I remember being aware, when all three of my
sons were babies, of the miracle of
daily life. Of course, that was on days
when we’d all had plenty of sleep the
night before!
TOS: You have three sons. Tell us
their birth order, and tell us when you
first discovered Joel was on the autism
spectrum.
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