Vanessa Rodrigues

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  Vanessa commented on the article | about 3 years ago

  Autism in Brazil Part I

  Hi Leila,

  
  

  Thanks for this very interesting article. My thoughts and concerns go especially to those parents that need to rely on the public education service in Brazil. Despite the recent efforts by the different levels of government and by nonprofit organizations, the crude reality – at least from my non-professional perspective – is that public schools are definitely not prepared to receive – and sometimes event to recognize – children with special needs. Brazil is so big that is difficult to imagine how the schools in the tiny cities and villages in the countryside, or in the Amazonian region, for instance, will really benefit from the efforts developed by the government. I don´t want to sound pessimist, but I believe that we need a strong movement of concerned people able to raise their voices to push the government to invest more and better to create a sort of network of reference schools spread all over the country to give the support the autistic and children with other special needs deserve.

  
  

  Vanessa