Terri Mauro

Terri Mauro is the About.com guide to Parenting Special Needs at specialchildren.about.com and the author of three books, "The Everything Parent's Guide to Sensory Processing Disorder," "50 Ways to Support Your Child's Special Education" and "The Everything Parent's Guide to Sensory Integration Disorder." Her personal website Mothers With Attitude, offering "humor and help for adoptive moms, special-needs moms, any old moms at all," was recognized as a USA Today Hot Site and a Good Housekeeping Site of the Day. She has two young adults with special needs, a 24-year-old with language-based learning disabilities and a 21-year-old with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, both adopted from Russia in 1994. She has been working as a writer for more than 30 years, and has been an editor for Hallmark Cards, First for Women magazine, and Food and Wine cookbooks. She is the survivor of 32 IEP meetings.