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Article: Family step in to care for children with autism.
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- Huntingdon Town Crier (St. Neots, England)
- Article date:
- March 16, 2008
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Bringing up a child with autism in an often unreceptive society can take its toll on the strongest of families.
But that's where 50-year-old Liz Roberts, husband Gary and their four children step in, giving up their weekends to care for children with autism in a bid to give exhausted parents and siblings a much needed rest.
Liz and Gary, 42, are Link carers - volunteers who for the past eight years have been looking after disabled children for a set number of days a year.
Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that can impair social interaction and communication, and cause restricted and repetitive behaviour.
The Roberts, ...