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‘We’re caught in mid-air’ — Raising a child with autism in Georgia
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‘We’re caught in mid-air’ — Raising a child with autism in Georgia

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From individual therapy to special education teachers in schools, parents of children with autism in Georgia are facing a constant battle with the authorities to provide the services their children need. Keti Nebieridze is a single mother. Her son Sandro, who turns 16 this year, was born at a time when there were no basic services for children with autism — Nebieridze recalls how, after being forced out of several kindergartens, they found one on the opposite edge of the city with a psychol

Voice from Dedoplistskaro | ‘I dreamed of seeing a child protection hotline and calling it’
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Voice from Dedoplistskaro | ‘I dreamed of seeing a child protection hotline and calling it’

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‘I think that if a person really wants to do something, if it’s in their soul, they can do it. I’ve wanted to be independent since I was a child. I made several attempts at it. I escaped from home a few times. I don’t know why but since very early childhood, when I was so little, I already knew I didn’t want to live in that house, where they don’t love you and you don’t love them.’ Women in Georgia very often lack a voice of their own. Their opinions, feelings, dreams, aspirations, and achi

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