Q3. What advice do you have for professionals about how they might include siblings in their brother or sister's services? 

<Kate Boone>

If speech is the issue then teaching the sibling alternative ways of communicating, such as sign language, would be helpful. Having just one person who can understand you goes a long way in making anyone feel better about themselves – but my brother needed more social contacts and communication help.  Also, it would be important that siblings even at a young age understand their brother or sister’s disability, what it is and what it means.  I never knew exactly how to explain things to my friends who would come over to our house.