10 Things I WIsh I Had Known After an Autism Diagnosis
LOONEY-10-Things10 Things I WIsh I Had Known After an Autism Diagnosis
David Looney
10 pages plus cover.
This heartfelt booklet offers encouragement and practical guidance for parents facing an autism diagnosis, reminding you that your child is still the same beloved person and that hope, progress, and purpose remain ahead. Drawing from lived experience, it highlights the value of early support, patient advocacy, careful record-keeping, celebrating small victories, recognizing hidden strengths, and finding comfort in the autism community. Above all, it reassures families that while the journey may look different than expected, it can also be filled with growth, resilience, deep love, and abiding faith
Dr. David Looney is a native of Memphis, Tennessee, and has lived in Jackson, Tennessee,
since 2016. He has been married to his wife Kay for over 40 years. They have two daughters, Hope and Paige (Wyatt, husband Cody).
since 2016. He has been married to his wife Kay for over 40 years. They have two daughters, Hope and Paige (Wyatt, husband Cody).
He is a 1986 graduate of the Memphis School of Preaching and graduated from Freed–Hardeman University in 2007 with a B.S. in Bible and in 2009 received a M.A. in Ministry. Dr. Looney received his Doctor of Ministry in Family Therapy in 2018 from Amridge University.
Dr. Looney taught Advanced Clinical Psychopathology in the DBH program at Freed-Hardeman University for four years and taught a class on “Death and Dying” for six years in the Department of Behavioral Sciences.
Dr. Looney taught Advanced Clinical Psychopathology in the DBH program at Freed-Hardeman University for four years and taught a class on “Death and Dying” for six years in the Department of Behavioral Sciences.
He has been a featured speaker at Polishing the Pulpit for a number of years. He and his wife Kay have provided counseling for those attending this conference for the last 12 years. He has served the Bolivar (Tennessee) Fire Department as Chaplain since 2009. For
forty years, he has served as a minister for the churches of Christ in Tennessee and Mississippi.
forty years, he has served as a minister for the churches of Christ in Tennessee and Mississippi.
As a father of an autistic child, Dr. Looney is uniquely qualified to conduct seminars on autism and to counsel with families who have a child on the autism spectrum.
