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Posted on April 02, 2008

After their now-7-year-old son Ryan was diagnosed with autism 5 years ago, Lorri and Dan Unumb they sold their house, downsized and sacrificed to cover costs, an April 1st CNN story reports. Intensive behavior therapy for Ryan costs between $70,000 and $80,000 a year which is lawyer and law professor Lorri Unumb s entire salary. The Unumbs attribute Ryan s progress to all the therapy he has received. To help other families who could not afford the intensive therapy that Ryan has had, Lorri Unumb wrote a bill, recruited other parents to help her lobby state legislators, and tw...

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