Julie Hornok
When her daughter, Lizzie, was diagnosed with autism at the age of two, Julie Hornok jumped into researching and implementing a thirty-hours-a-week home-therapy program. This program treated Lizzie’s behavior and speech, along with diet and medical interventions to heal her body. A few years later, as her daughter made good progress, Julie went through her videos and began a video blog showing Lizzie’s progress to encourage others. As a result of the video blog, Julie became the go-to mom for helping parents with a new autism diagnosis and was honored to accept a position on the board of the National Autism Association of North Texas. She was also asked to blog for AutismSpot. Blogging regularly enabled her to encourage and help thousands across the globe through humorous, heartfelt stories about Lizzie and videos showing the therapies she was using to help her daughter progress.
Julie's work has also been seen in multiple Chicken Soup for the Soul books, Parenting Special Needs Magazine, Autism Parenting Magazine, Thrive magazine, Literary Mama, and she was an award winner in the 2017 Writer’s Digest Writing Competition. Julie is passionate about supporting families with autism by bringing free autism mom's events through United in Autism to cities around the country and lives in Texas with her husband and three children. Connect with her at www.juliehornok.com.
