The celebrated Filipino children’s author René O. Villanueva once wrote a legend on parenting. In a preface to his collection of stories and plays, Tiktipaklong (1987), he composed a brief account of how children used to reside on the summit of the highest mountain, behind the firmament, as fully realized humans annulled from the Piagetian...
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The hidden struggles of people on the spectrum
Cheryl’s story begins in quiet worry, weighed down by the demand of raising her differently abled son in a world that prides itself in progress and praises innovation and inclusivity, but is quick to judge what it hardly understands. The single mother of Rusell, who has Level 3 autism spectrum disorder (ASD), tells her story...