Joyce Show is a Harvard/MIT trained physician with dual certification from the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Geriatrics. She is also the mother of seven children, including a son with severe autism. She has spent the last 10 years raising her family and researching educational treatments for autism and learning disabilities. In her free time she advocates and fundraises for improved public education for children with special needs, teaches bible study classes at her parish church, and is an active member of a parent group called the Foothill Autism Alliance, California.