Emerging from the Trenches - Truths from a mother whose world has been refined by autism.

Jennifer Hayword''s third son, Ryder, was born autistic. At first, the family didn''t know what was wrong, but when they did, the family together decided Ryder would have as normal a childhood as they could give him. Sometime hilarious, always poignant, this is a tribute to a mother who won''t give up and a child who has learned to adapt.