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Are You Exhausted?
Parents and carers of children on the autism spectrum often leave their needs and desires behind, to focus completely on their child's needs. While this may be necessary, it also makes parents and carers more vulnerable to overwhelm, mental health difficulties, and physical health conditions. Who Cares For Parents and Carers who have the full time job of looking after autistic children?
Do You Feel Your Child's School Is Meeting Their Needs?
Depending on where your child is on the autism spectrum, you may be struggling to secure a specialized educational plan, that addresses your child's unique needs.
Speech therapy, occupational therapy, transportation, funding for fully trained special education teachers and classroom assistants, are among the most urgent areas of concern in special education settings. Additionally, monitoring special education classrooms for appropriate class size, and student to teacher ratios, has fallen below the radar in many schools. If your child is currently being mainstreamed in a non specialist classroom, you may also have serious concerns about suffering from bullying, isolation, and academic regression. Both parents and teachers frequently express frustration with the lack of adequate staff to manage disruptive behavior, and meltdowns in class, as well as other learning challenges that impact on an autistic child's ability to access the school's curriculum.
More support is urgently needed.
Are You Struggling with Financial Emergency Due To The Sacrifices You've Made To Care For Your Autistic Child?
Many parents and carers of autistic children report suffering from social isolation, lack of opportunities for their child to interact with their peers, as well as judgement from family members, school officials, and even doctors.
Destigmatizing Autism is urgently needed because the prevalence of Autism has increased by 243% since 2018*. 1 and 36 children in the United States are diagnosed each day. In developing countries facing more economic challenges there is little research on the prevalence of Autism. However, for example Ghana has a 38.7% higher prevalence of Autism Spectrum, than the global percentage rate.
Until we identify and support autistic children living in developing countries around the world, their quality of life as well as that of their parents and carers, will remain poor.