“Autism, is part of my child, it's not everything he is. My child is so much more than a diagnosis.”

“I see autism as having many different strands. All of these strands are beautiful. They are all the colours of the rainsbow intertwined intricately into the child. If you try and take away the autism by removing the strands you also take away parts of the child as they are attached to them. Thhey are what makes them who they are. However autism is only a part of them, not the whole. It does not define them.This is for my Tom.”

“It's so much more than a child's story. - Matt Chandler on LIFE Today.”

“[A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.”

“Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books -- they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future and a past.”

“What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.”