Julia Duchesne lives in Neuville-de-Poitou. With her three children, Milo’s mother is starting to run out of herself trying to find solutions to make her son’s daily life easier. The child was diagnosed 2 years ago: “autism spectrum disorders”. Today part-time and after a professional retraining to take care of her son as well as possible, Julia confides “daily tinkering“lack of additional support.”Milo has a hypersensitivity to noises,” she explains, “he can’t stand the world very much, he needs rituals and isn’t comfortable with change, the unexpected, and since spring he can’t compensate. Sometimes Milo can make huge tantrums like the time he banged very, very hard on the school gate”.
Faced with the behavior of her child, and despite the medical diagnosis, the mother sometimes heard that it was “a problem of education” which explained Milo’s behavior. Wounded, Julia, grits her teeth, as she says, and manages to reassure herself by recounting the behavior and the uneventful school career of Milo’s big brother and little sister.
A place on the waiting list for a year
The MDPH recognized the status of disabled child in Milo, and directed the family to an institution which could intervene at school, daycare and at home with a multidisciplinary team, which could provide therapeutic and educational care explains Julia. Problem: Milo has been on a waiting list for a year and nothing is happening. And yet only one obligation for the mother “my son has to find his place.”
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