“I defend my son in first intention but I gladly echo all these families who are in pain”, says Giorgio Loiseau. No specialized institution has room to accommodate her 12-year-old autistic son.
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Giorgio Loiseau, the mayor of Poses in the Eure, began a hunger strike on Monday May 29 to raise awareness about disability care in France. Invited to franceinfo, this father of a 12-year-old autistic child has no solution for the start of the school year in September: “The speech is always the same, namely that there is a crying lack of places in our department and more broadly in the country.”
franceinfo: No structure can accommodate your son for the next school year in September, right?
Giorgio Loiseau: That’s it. He comes under a medico-educational institute and to date there is no place in these establishments to welcome him at the start of the school year. The speech is always the same, namely that there is a crying lack of places in our department and more widely in the country.
How have you been doing so far?
My son was in an elementary school that I started five years ago. It is now a UEEA, an elementary autism teaching unit, and since my son will be 12 at the end of August, he has left this system and has no solution for the next return.
“I am told that we will have to be patient, it can last from 2 to 6 years. The record today in our department is 7 years.”
Giorgio Loiseauat franceinfo
Do you have the impression of being an example and at the same time wanting to take over from families who feel abandoned?
That’s completely it and the chance I have of being elected is that perhaps the media coverage is greater. Inevitably, I defend my son in first intention but I willingly echo all these families who are suffering.
Do you have a feeling of anger or do you feel like you are suffering a double punishment?
Completely. It condemns us socially and professionally. If there is a return home, we will take care of our son but we would like to claim at least an ordinary life. It would be abusive to put him in college because his skills are too far from what is expected of a child of the same age. I have never believed in the school which bears all the ills of society: 100% inclusive for the school is completely utopian to think that, it is to neglect the whole layer of the most severely handicapped children.
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