When 7-year-old Max Cutler uttered his first word a few months ago, it touched his mother deeply.
The word “Ho Ho” may sound meaningless to some but to her it was a break through for her son who suffers from severe autism.
For the first time, he said aloud what he wanted, a packaged cupcake.
Max attends Veva Blunt Elementary School in Visalia where a campus within a campus exists for students such as Max who have trouble communicating with the outside world.