This year, some of the Autism South Africa staff were priveldged enough to attend the Regional IMFAR conference held at Spier Wine Estate in Stellenbosch. The Regional IMFAR conferences are starting to be held in a variety of locations throughout the world, and South Africa was lucky enough to have been the latest venue. IMFAR …
When Mark Hopkins (12) visited the Johannesburg Hospital School for Autism in Braamfontein as part of a volunteer group, he was struck by the desire to help even further. The school offers cutting-edge education to severely autistic children but must make every cent count, as it is a government school with a large proportion of …
When I sit down to write this story, I stare at the empty screen because it is hard to know where and how to start it. Before I had children, I imagined that when you have a disabled child, the child is born, and the doctors take your child away. They bring him or her back …
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighbourhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, …
Since my particular experience has been with Asperger’s Syndrome (now known as autism spectrum disorder), I am most comfortable with that specific frame of reference. I stumbled into the world of Autism and Asperger’s in particular when my firstborn son, James, was diagnosed in 2005. This was over a decade ago. I had read about …
My Story: James and Cameron, my sons who have Asperger’s Syndrome by Jeanine Collett Read More »
Diagnosed with Mild Autism – High functioning on 27 May 2014 No one ever said to me that parenting would be easy; then again no one said to me it would be this challenging. Any child comes with his/her own gifts, being a parent you need to nurture these gifts and make them work for …
It is well known that Aspies tend to not fit in to society. Girls with AS typically feel the pressure to fit in more than boys do. Aspies feel like aliens. I had that problem all my life. Let me tell you a bit about my background. At school I was teased and bullied. Most …
