Lisa Simmons

We were going to treat him as...

like a typical five-year-old as much as we could.

Right.

And so you just, I think, again, that's an instinct.

And if you allow the doctors who, yes, they've had maybe more education than you've had, they've had maybe more experience, you know, working with these kids than you have, but you know your child.

Mm-hmm.

And you know your ability to work with your own child.

And so we got that bicycle, put the training wheels on it, propped the training wheels up on bricks.

So it was like a stationary bike.

And I held his feet on the pedals.

And we did that until he got muscle memory in his legs.

And then he rode, and he rode.

He rode a two without training wheels.

He was actually on a rollerblading hockey team at one point.

So, you know, don't just take the first answer.

Your special needs child, whatever, if it's autism or whatever special needs they have, they need to know Jesus in whatever capacity that they can.

And for Daniel, at about age—

We used to listen to a Dallas radio station, Christian radio station, KCBI 90.9, and we would listen to that going to school.

And one day he heard somebody, I didn't even know he was listening, and I certainly didn't know if he could comprehend or understand something as deep as a spiritual need for a Savior.

And he was sitting in the back seat, and I'm just driving, listening, and he said, Mom, am I going to go to heaven?