THE GASTONS NAMED HONOREES AT GALA FOR SPRINGBROOK IN COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK THIS MARCH.

Completing the Puzzle - A Gala for Springbrook

Springbrook will hold its annual gala on Saturday, March 27, 2010 at the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown, New York.

This year’s theme, Completing the Puzzle, is in support of the residential school expansion and our Capital Campaign. Click here to read more about our project.

Springbrook is proud to announce The Gaston Family as our gala honorees for 2010. Lynn and Randy Gaston of Howard County, Maryland are noted advocates of Autism and have seven-year-old triplet sons who were diagnosed years ago with varying degrees of Autism.

There are lots of ways to support his event including becoming an event sponsor, advertising in our dinner program, contributing a donation to our silent auction or purchasing tickets and attending the event. Click here for more details…

This is sure to be an inspiring evening with a cocktail hour and silent auction followed by an elegant dinner and dancing.

For more information about Springbrook visit their website at www.springbrookny.org.

ABOUT THE GASTONS 

THREE TIMES THE LOVE is the inspiring true story of an ordinary American family who face an extraordinary challenge. Lynn and Randy Gaston were overjoyed to discover they were having triplets after many arduous years of trying to conceive. Their three sons were born after a closely monitored pregnancy, and the family returned home together, believing that their biggest challenges were behind them.  But eighteen months after their births,  Lynn and Randy’s sons began exhibiting odd, new behaviors –among them,  toe walking, arm flapping, and in one of the boys, Nicholas, a sudden muteness.  Home with the triplets each day, Lynn watched the boys change before her eyes. Terrified and dumbfounded, she began researching their behaviors on the internet. The same glaring diagnosis kept popping up—each boy was exhibiting symptoms of autism, though at different points on the spectrum.

With little support from their own pediatrician, Randy and Lynn continued to research autism and alternative treatments exhaustively, convinced that Zachary, Hunter, and Nicholas needed immediate help. With nowhere to turn, they hired their own therapists and began intensive behavioral treatment, uncovered by their health insurance. Stymied by misdiagnosis at their own public school, they eventually decided to sell their house and move to a school district that offered therapy programs for their boys.

Along this challenging and confusing journey, Randy and Lynn have become fierce advocates for their sons as they race against time to find answers.  And they’ve made it their mission to arm other parents with the information, guidance, and support they were looking for so desperately since their boys began regressing. With invaluable advice ranging from educational programs to legal issues to a comprehensive assessment of the therapies and interventions that have worked for their three unique children, the Gastons provide a roadmap for all families who will need to follow them through the trenches.