Will Gonzalez remembers the night everything changed.

Gonzalez’ 6-year-old daughter, Alana, was in her bedroom at the family’s Barnegat home. Alana, who has a host of physical disabilities – an extremely rare genetic disorder andepilepsy in addition to beingon the autism spectrum and non-verbal – was not sleeping even though it was sometime after 2 a.m. and she had been in bed for hours.