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Welcome Oguz!wishes from Sweden,mother of 12 yr boy with AS, 7yr NT boy,wife of a kind man with some quirks--- Den tis 2008-10-28 skrev Selim Atay <selimatay_1972@...>:Från: Selim Atay <selimatay_1972@...>Ämne: ( ) New kid on the block!Till: Datum: tisdag 28 oktober 2008 14.32

Dear members,As a newcomer to the group, I would like to share with you some of my experiments and observations. To begin with, I am the father to a 7-year old boy with mild-AS diagnosis. I am from Ankara, Turkey. Though I did not have the time to go through all the mails posted in the group, some of the mails I read really surprised me. I was surprised to see how different conditions we had. Please do allow me to explain as briefly as I can:(1) Here in Turkey, we have access to almost any kind of health service almost immediately. You can make an appointment with a child psychiatrist even on the day you asked for or maybe in the coming few days. There are well-trained

psychiatrists especially in big cities having considerable experience in AS. And more importantly these services are free. (2) Although basic health services are not so bad, school

system is literally awful. Teachers in public schools have neither experience nor the energy to deal with a "problem kid". The only alternative is private schools, where you can find more sympathy, understanding and even some experts to help you. My son is a 2nd year student in a privately run elementary school and doing fine with the help of his teachers. But such schools are very expensive in our standards. (3) In case you need special education you have once again 2 alternatives- public and private. There are very few public schools offering education especially for kids with low functioning autism. AS is too mild a syndrome to be accepted to such schools. There are also some private schools, but they too are too busy with what they call more severe cases.(4) There is a severe problem of having access to written material. There is almost nothing written in Turkish- very very few materials, only with some basic facts. If you don't have access

to English material you are left alone. There is only one support group on the net, which is doing fine.(5) There is also the problem of what I could call "social recognition" . Parents of such children prefer not to "go public", one of the reasons why there are so few support groups on the net. It is difficult to get support even from your nearest relatives. Even for my mom, for instance, my son is a perfect boy with some minor and manageable problems in making friends. Please do allow me to take this opportunity to extend from this corner of the world my warmest feelings of sympathy to the brave members of this group.Oguz

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