Dr. Monique Ogden

Certainly, Your Honor.

I hold a PhD in childhood development with a postgraduate work at Harvard School of Medicine.

My educational expertise is in the areas of developmental psychology and developmental psychopathology.

I am the director of the Autism Clinic at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and former co-director of the Marcus Autism Neurodevelopment Center in Atlanta.

Additionally, I am a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry.

I have worked with children with autism and their families for almost 30 years.

Yes, he could.

It would take some special consideration, someone to get to know him and how he communicates before his mother was gone, along with recreating a similar environment and routine in his new living space.

But it most certainly could be done.

People with low functioning autism navigate their world almost like a movie with no soundtrack.

They don't want their routine broken because they are unsure how to restore the track.

It would take some time.

But with intense therapy, I'm sure it would not only be possible, but a highly successful transition in which he could thrive.

In my expert opinion, yes.

I have worked with them, yes.

Isn't that correct?

Children and teenagers, yes.

No, I do not.

I don't have any personal experience with a case exactly like this.

Have any of your colleagues?