How hockey helps a collegiate player cope with autism: ‘When I get out on the ice, I always have felt I could be my true authentic self'

When Walker Aurand was learning to read, his parents tied paper plates onto a hockey net in the driveway and the autistic boy shot the puck at specific letters to spell each word correctly. “C-A-T, cat,’’ Aurand recalled. “B-U-S. Bus. That’s really how I figu… #howtoorganizealocker