A family vacation should be relaxing and fun.  It should be an opportunity for family members to connect and enjoy each others company.  All too often, a family with a child with autism finds taking a family vacation too stressful.  More and more, family vacations are vacations for everyone except the child with autism.  I am the mother of two children.  My daughter is five and a half.  My son is ten.  My son is also nonverbal with a diagnosis of severe autism.  This does not stop us from taking vacations together.  I have found that, with well thought out planning, we have a