The Gaston Family:  Three Times the Love

Springbrook is proud to announce the Gaston family as this year’s gala honorees.  Lynn and Randy Gaston of Howard County, Maryland, are noted advocates for autism awareness.  Their seven-year-old triplet sons, Nicholas, Hunter and Zachary, were diagnoses several years ago with varying degrees of autism.  Lynn and Randy share their compelling story in their book Three Times the Love: Finding Answers and Hope for Our Triplets with Autism.

Lynn and Randy were overjoyed to have triplets after many arduous years of trying to conceive. But at eighteen months, the boys began exhibiting odd new behaviors.  Terrified and dumbfounded, Lynn began researching their behavior on the Internet. The same glaring diagnosis kept popping up - each boy was displaying symptoms of autism. 

Receiving little support from their pediatrician, Randy and Lynn hired their own therapists and began intensive behavioral treatment, not covered by their health insurance.  Along their challenging and confusing path, Lynn and Randy have become fierce advocates for their sons as they race against time to find answers.  They’ve made it their goal to arm other parents with the information, guidance and support they were looking for so desperately.

The Gaston’s story has been featured on Good Moring America, the Today show and CNN, and in The Washington Post and the Baltimore Sun.  In 2007 they organized and founded Autism Expo in Columbia, Maryland, which featured more than twenty speakers and drew hundreds of parents of children with autism.

The Green Toad Bookstore

will host a book signing with the Gastons on

Friday evening, March 26th, 2010