Live: Virtual Storytime with Raizy Metzger

Listen With Your Heart aims to bring you inside the mind and heart of a child who can’t communicate. Raizy, a mom of six, including one son with non-verbal autism, wrote this story from her heart. It offers a frame of reference, a conversation opener, a small window into the life of a child who may seem closed off from the world and disconnected from those around him or her.

Wednesday 8 Adar 1, February 9

6:00 – 6:30 P.M. EST

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81637947668

About The Book

Listen With Your Heart aims to bring you inside the mind and heart of a child who can’t communicate. Raizy, a mom of six, including one son with non-verbal autism, wrote this story from her heart. It offers a frame of reference, a conversation opener, a small window into the life of a child who may seem closed off from the world and disconnected from those around him or her.

This book is a plea to recognize that there are those in our families, communities, and societies who cannot get the message out, who cannot share what they’re all about, who can’t give an “elevator pitch” or any pitch at all. And yet they are here, with all their beauty, richness, and meaning to add to the world.

How can we tune in and listen to what they have to share?

First, we need to recognize and appreciate that children like Ari have their own language–they simply can’t speak it. Then we can slow down and listen with our hearts to all the parts of the child and make the effort to see the child beyond the label, the communication behind the behavior. It’s not easy, but it’s worth it.