About the author - Liz Becker

Personal:

I have 2 children and Tom has 2 children both now in their 30s. Matt is my youngest. 

Professional:

Teacher - I teach biology, microbiology, and anatomy and physiology for Wytheville Community College and for Radford University.

Clinical Scientist - I worked in the lab for over 16 years before going back to school.

Research Scientist- spiders . . . yep, spiders. I researched how male funnel-web spiders subdued the female prior to mating and found it to be a pheromone. You can check out my research by clicking here.

I worked toward my doctorate at Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University in the department of Neurobiology and Anatomy but found I just couldn't juggle the demands of 2 teenagers (one autistic) at home. Besides, my schedule really needed to be on par with Matt's.... so I backed up, and got my Master's (in Education) instead. I always thought I would go back and finish but something peculiar happened - I found I actually love teaching! No regrets....

Author - Autism and the World According to Matt

The four-part series has begun on Autism Daily Newscast- and can I just say....... how AWESOME is this? I am having the time of my life with this book: the reviews, the invitations. I am overwhelmed and honored by all of it!!! 

Part I - AUTISM DAILY NEWSCAST

Part II - AUTISM DAILY NEWSCAST

From the local Newspaper:                                                  "Mom's autism blog reaches around the world"

Source: tricities.com via Liz on Pinterest

Here's the link to the story in the local newspaper, Southwest Virginia Enterprise

Radford University Interview

Here's my research on spiders - in case you are interested in that kind of thing....

Male induction of female quiescence/catalepsis during courtship in the spider, Agelenopsis aperta

http://www.mendeley.com/research/male-induction-of-female-quiescencecatalepsis-during-courtship-in-the-spider-agelenopsis-aperta/2005

(Male induction of female quiescence/catalepsis during courtship in the spider, Agelenopsis aperta

by E Becker, S Riechert, F Singer. Behaviour (2005. Volume: 142, Issue: 1, Pages: 57-70 ISSN: 00057959).

Contact me by email - click here.