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| Eight-year-old Liam Atkinson plays at McDonald's recently. He was diagnosed with autism just before he started kindergarten. Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy |
Erin Hidlebaugh’s eldest son Liam knew his A-Zs at age 18 months before he could speak.
“He was saying a few words, no sentences or anything, but he could identify the alphabet,” she said. “When he was little, his obsession was letters and words and books … and then it was Angry Birds and now it’s Minecraft.”
Liam, now 8, was first diagnosed with autism just before he started kindergarten at age five. This diagnosis wasn’t a surprise for Erin and her husband, Corey Atkinson, as they’d seen signs of it for a few years.
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