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Call for goverment to build more schools for children with special needs

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Families and various professionals have called on government to build more schools for children living with special needs and autism so they can lead a normal life.

This emerged during the Rainbow Walk for Autism at the Moses Mabhida Stadium’s Peoples Park on Saturday.

Sipho Sibisi from Tongaat, who’s a father of a 6-year-old boy living with autism says there’s a stigma attached to autism-especially among black people.

He says one child with autism is probably like having three children.

“Its really not easy but financialy these school are expensive. I just hope that one day government will intervene. For one child we pay about R8000 a month.”

He says at times it could be very difficult to understand your own child.

“Our boy was not verbal but now he has developed since he got into the college here. He has developed more words.”

Where we come from its really not easy where family is concerned. They will tell you that your child needs some special rituals, they don’t understand that it is something you are born with,” adds Sibisi.

 

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