{"id":360923,"date":"2026-08-02T19:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/360923\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T19:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:34:07","slug":"key-biscayne-author-shares-personal-story-of-autism-and-family-key-biscayne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/360923\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Biscayne author shares personal story of autism and family | Key Biscayne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lunch with an Author series at the Key Biscayne Community Center recently featured long time Island resident Manuel Camb\u00f3 talking on the subject of autism and reading excerpts from his new children\u2019s book, \u201cUna carta sobre Michael\u201d (A Letter About Michael).<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Manuel-cambo-book-signing\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1470\" height=\"1409\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Camb\u00f3 signing his books at a recent community event.<\/p>\n<p>Written as a tribute to a nephew born with autism, the inspiring story highlights the courage of impacted families. Approximately 40 people attended the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cManny did a great job explaining how autism affects families, especially the siblings,\u201d Rose Haney said.<\/p>\n<p>All net proceeds from sales of the book, which was illustrated by Sergio Kechu Slepczuk, will be donated to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfacs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">South Florida Autism Charter School in Hialeah<\/a>, Florida. The book can be purchased at Amazon, Walmart and other online retailers.<\/p>\n<p>Una carta sobre Michael <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0GML9MFCY?lv=shuf&amp;channelId=500&amp;plpRedirect=mhFallback\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">can be purchased on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lunch with an Author series at the Key Biscayne Community Center recently featured long time Island resident&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[146985,13709,1089,126,146983,123,125,124,146986,146984],"class_list":["post-360923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-a-letter-about-michael","tag-autism","tag-family","tag-key-biscayne","tag-manuel-cambo","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-south-florida-autism-charter-school","tag-una-carta-sobre-michael"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}