Thousand Oaks parents hope to raise money for treatment for son's rare disease

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (KABC) -- After Black Friday and Cyber Monday comes Giving Tuesday, when we're all encouraged to do something for someone else-- someone like 8-year-old Aiden Steiner of Thousand Oaks, and other children like him who are struggling with an extremely rare disease.

Steiner loves the same things most kids his age do, but behind his smile is a devastating diagnosis: Infantile Neuroaxonal Dystrophy, or INAD, a rare and terminal disease.

"Basically, it's pediatric ALS and Parkinson's combined. It's the worst-case outcome that we could have," said Aiden's mother, Dana Steiner.

Experts say there are fewer than 300 children living with the illness worldwide. Aiden's parents believe he is the only known case in Southern California.

He suffered through unexplained falls, ba