Person Biography:
Lynette Louise was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada in 1957. She left school at the age of 15, married, and had two children before turning 20. By the time she was 29, she had adopted four toddlers with varying degrees of autism, and later added two troubled teenage girls to the family, one with learning disabilities, making a total of eight children.
Despite the challenges, Lynette's persistence, unconventional approaches, and steadfast love allowed the children to not only survive but also flourish. A major turning point came when she moved the family to a shelter after discovering that her third husband had destroyed their marriage by molesting one of her biological daughters.
Lynette worked various odd jobs to support the children as a single parent while continuing to pursue her passion for the theatre. She performed stand-up comedy, landed parts in several movies, hosted a television cooking show, and independently produced comedy and music shows, turning the family into a traveling theatre troupe.
In the early 1990s, she wrote, produced, and performed Behind Bars, a musical show that toured prisons in Canada and the United States. In 1996, she relocated to the United States and continued to help her children, eventually becoming certified as a child facilitator by the Autism Treatment Center of America and as a neurofeedback practitioner.
Lynette founded the Brain and Body Clinic in 2004, a treatment center for autism and other brain disorders using neurofeedback. She currently performs her one-woman play, Thing To Thing To Thing - From Crazy To Sane With Biofeedback, Autism And The Brain, which recounts her 20-year search for ways to help her special needs children develop into independent adults.
