When 2-year-old Jermaine Jones, who had autism and was nonverbal, slipped out of his home while his aunt was showering earlier this month, it was not the first time he had wandered away. A month earlier, the curious curly-haired toddler disappeared from his family's house in a rural area outside Lansing, Michigan, only to be found 300 yards away. When Jermaine's mom, Victoria Jones, learned her son had vanished again, she called police, setting off a furious two-day search without a happy ending. Jermaine was found dead in the nearby Looking Glass River. A young child wandering away in the few minutes a caregiver's back is turned is a parent's worst nightmare. For parents of children with autism and other intellectual or developmental disabilities, it's a possibility for which they must plan. "We have a hard time battling with reality and feeling like this is just a dream," Jones told USA TODAY. "But at least we try to tell ourselves that now we have to at least help other parents because it's so easy to happen so quickly." Find out how Jermaine's mom wants to bring greater awareness to wandering in the link in bio.