Providing Support to Fathers of Children with Special Needs

NAPPERVILLE, Ill. -- For the first half of his son’s life, Matt Latourette concentrated mostly on the little guy’s survival.
Son Aiden was born Dec. 1, 2003, with a chromosome abnormality and heart defects that required seven surgeries just to keep him alive.
It was only after the medical crisis was behind him — after Aiden turned 3 — that Latourette began the inevitable grieving when a father realizes his firstborn child would never have a normal life. Nor would he and his wife Jennifer.