Digital storytelling - the parents' story
Autism: from diagnosis to development to independence and a career…
Download this video:
To download the video above, please follow this link to its page on Vimeo, and click the Download button there (below the video text description). Vimeo will then offer you a choice of formats to download.
Liam Robertson is 20 years old and has autism. His parents talk about Liam's passion for the theatre and the support they received to help Liam develop independence and obtain an NVQ2 in customer service. They also talk about the difficulties encountered in obtaining a diagnosis and their aspirations for his future.
I think any child who has autism, their parents should make use of all the services – it’s surprising just what’s out there, what’s available to various people. But you have to actually go searching for it and take everything on, listen to people.
Related
This Work, Digital storytelling - the parents' story, by IRISS is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 UK: Scotland license.
Printer-friendly version
PDF version