Founder, President and Host of The Coffee Klatch. The Coffee Klatch is an interactive forum on Blog Talk Radio and Twitter bringing you internationally renowned expert guests including award winning authors, psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists, advocates, celebrity activists and representatives from the world’s most respected children’s foundations.
I created The Coffee Klatch to give parents of special needs children a forum to find and share the best resources and information available. Empowering parents of children with disabilities has been my goal. What you see is not always what you get. I encourage you to dig deep, always searching for answers and never give up hope. I have spent the past ten years researching the organic basis of anxiety and depressive disorders in children and adolescents. I am presently working on a book for special needs parenting, a survival guide for the difficult journey. My special interests are endocrinology, immunology and early onset mental illness. As I end my show each day “You are your child’s best advocate, if not you then who, become an informed, educated parent” Parents need an advocate as well and that is the role I gladly take – The Parents Advocate.
Interviews: Part 1- “One Motivated Mom Marianne Russo” http://bit.ly/gcgblm Part 2 – “Accepting The Diagnosis” http://alturl.com/5m3b8 Understanding the Defiant Child http://alturl.com/r6xj4
Marianne’s Blog: The Life Unexpected
