Mrs Serwaa Quaynor, a mother of a 39 year old man living with autism, has called on the government to put in place measures that will let society stop the killing of children with autism and other disabilities.
“These children do not have a voice and someone has to be responsible for them and speak for them,” she said in an interview with Special Mothers Project, an advocacy platform for children with special needs, ahead of Autism Awareness Month, which is celebrated in April.
Mrs Quaynor who is also the Founder and Director of the Autism Awareness Care and Training Centre (AaCT) also reacted to a recent article in the media where a two-year-old boy was buried alive somewhere in the Central region.
She said but for the intervention of the police the child would have died.
“this is not the only case that we have heard of, what about the ones being given concoctions and being poisoned slowly to death, these stories span across the country, who do we cry out to?”
Mrs Quaynor urged the government to have the interest of children with autism and other disabilities at heart and put in place policies that supports children with disabilities and their families in Ghana
Ghana joins the rest of the world to celebrate World Autism Day on the 2nd of April every year. In Ghana, the Autism community has designated the whole of April as Autism Awareness Month
