'The biggest blessing for me with him having autism is that it has taught me so much, how to look at the world differently through his eyes, to cherish every word he says and it's given me strength I never thought I had to fight for everything he needs.'
As Autism Awareness Day falls on April 2nd, those impacted by the services for people with autism are calling for change.
"I found that at the start, at the early intervention there were a lot of parenting groups, I was delighted to have gone to every last one of them. But as Tadhg has gotten older, I find he gets little to no help," she told RSVP Live. "A bit of one on one speech therapy would go such a long way for him, but he hasn’t been given that service. He got an iPad with a speech device during Covid, and afterwards I was explaining that he knows all the words and is able to say them, he just struggles with putting them together in a sentence, we need to be able to move on to the next step now, I was just told to keep using the speech therapy app on the iPad.
"I am so proud of his speech, it has come on so much, there isn't a word he cannot say, he just needs to learn how to use them in sentences and in context. This is a huge thing, because at one stage I thought he would never speak," she said. "He’s lovable, smiley and laughing all the time. How he has gotten to this point is down to me and his dad, his sister Brook and his teachers at school rather than being down to services.”"Autistic kid's sisters and brothers tend to take a lot of responsibility on as well, she would be like a second mammy, it melts your heart. But at the same time, she should not have to think that she can't do things because of her brother, or constantly be worrying after him.
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