Samuel Le Bihan will receive the Legion of Honor for his commitment to the families of autistic children

The French actor, father of an autistic daughter and co-founder of the Autisme Info Service association, will be rewarded on Tuesday.

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Actor Samuel Le Bihan in Deauville (Calvados), September 9, 2023. (LOU BENOIST / AFP)

He says of her that she is a “sun” who never ends“to wow”. Guest of the show “What a time!” on France 2Saturday March 30, Samuel Le Bihan spoke about Angia, his 12-year-old daughter suffering from autistic disorders. “She has made immense progress, says the actor. All the behaviorist methods worked extremely well on her. She came out of her bubble, she learned language, how to eat, she stopped the violent attacks… (…) She reinvents herself every day, she’s a little warrior.”

Angia has friends, she is in middle school, in fifth grade. And “What she wants above all is to be integrated”. “We must fight for inclusion” autistic children “when it’s possible”insists Samuel Le Bihan, who co-founded the Autisme Info Service association in 2018.

On the occasion of the JWorld Autism Awareness Day, Tuesday April 2, the actor will also receive the Legion of Honor for his commitment to parents of autistic children. On April 3, Samuel Le Bihan is also starring in a TV film broadcast on France 2. His name: You will not kill. He plays Simon Marchand, a disillusioned lawyer who agrees to defend a woman accused of killing her daughter who suffers from severe autism.


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