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Thank you Gillian!!! You are amazing!  A PARENTS' BATTLE By Gillian Naysmith Autism is a spectrum from mild to severe, 1 in 100 children are now on it somewhere. Statistics are still rising at an incredible rate, so for an official diagnosis, you may have to wait. The therapists have waiting lists which are a mile long, early intervention is imperative, so waiting seems so wrong. This is the parents battle, of which you are now a part, you have to keep on pushing for therapy to start and when it comes to schooling, it's more stress again, if your child needs extra help, it's 'who, what, why, where, when ?' As your child gets older, things may get tougher still. You have to advocate for him, because no-one else will. You have to fight his corner, get all the help you can, no-one else would fight this hard to help your little man. Later on in life, after school is done, trying to find work, may not be any fun. So we need our Government to make employers see, our kids just need help, to cope well socially. So they need to do some training and make employers aware, Autism wouldn't keep them from work if employment was more fair. So you see a parents battle is never really done, until the fight for fairness, for Autism we have won !  |
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