Author: Rebecca Manari | April 16th, 2022 As parents of children with autism, we often share our struggles and difficulties with the professionals at Sethu. The therapists always have a remarkable way with words and manage to get their message across in a way that’s so relatable and easy to …
Screen Time
Author: Rebecca Manari | April 14th, 2022 Like many others, I too used to be a parent who said no to screen time for my son Ryan (name changed) when he was a toddler, and I was so proud of it! However, when Ryan was about a year old, the …
The ‘C’ word in Autism
Author: Andre Velho | April 13th, 2022 “How can I cure my child?” is a question we often get asked at Sethu, by parents whose child may have recently been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). They just need something to make things better for their child. There are a …
Autism Teletherapy
Author: Andre Velho | April 12th, 2022 “My name is Amy and I live with my husband and son, Jack in the UK. It has been almost a year now that he is on the waiting list for his autism assessment here. We were offered speech therapy 6 months after …
Autism as a culture
Author: Andre Velho | April 9th, 2022 I read an article by Max Marnau, a Scottish psychotherapist, artist and poet who is on the autism spectrum. Max writes about autism as a ‘culture’, and how neurotypicals have trouble understanding the autistic world because it is not our culture. As Indians, …