Home among the Gum Trees: An American Family’s Amazing Australian Adventure

Sarah Taylor
1 min readApr 10, 2017

On one of our first confused and jet-lagged August mornings in Australia, I heard very loud chirps, hoots, and other unfamiliar noises coming from what I thought was our son’s ipad. I was about to tell him to turn down the volume on his nature show when I realized the sounds were outside my window. It still didn’t seem real that we were very far from our home in California, at the start of a four-month stay.

Read the rest of the story on page 10 of the Fragile X Association of Australia March 2017 Newsletter.

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Sarah Taylor

Sarah Taylor, MSW, PhD, is a Professor and Chair in Social Work at CSU East Bay and a parent of a child with a disability. Views expressed are solely her own.