Little man in a case

Close your eyes for a minute and imagine that you have problems with speech, understanding, you do not know how to communicate, do not use gestures, cannot repeat actions, do not look into your eyes, do not understand danger and do not show feelings in general, and for all at the same time, you have an increased sensitivity, even hysterics, to noise, music, light, clothes, smells, bathing, haircuts, and you only eat a certain set of products, and the toilet is still a problem for you. Submitted? Complicated? And for people with autism, this is not a minute sensation, but a daily state. This is their special world. 

For 3 years now, our life has been an eternal rush from a speech therapist to a psychologist, from a pathologist to a rehabilitologist, a psychiatrist, tests, pharmacies, and an eternal search: forums, chats, seminars, literature... Son is changing. Begins to show emotions. Words and understanding of the addressed speech appear. Begins to feel his body, becomes less awkward. Begins to notice around him people, animals, nature. He sometimes even looks straight in the eyes.

A child will not leave this cocoon without constant training and rehabilitation. If you give up and do nothing, he will remain a small inadequate child in the body of an adult, but I can’t allow it! One or two classes a week is something our family can afford, but this is infinitely small, so we ask you to help organize a gathering in order to pay for a course of intensive classes that I am sure will bring my child closer to the desired "norm"!

Name: Grytskiv Artem, 26.09.2013

City: Kyiv

Diagnosis: childhood autism with qualitative violations of social reciprocity and communication, developmental disorders of receptive speech (HM I-II level), motor alalia with a sensory component, stereotypical forms of behavior