Archive for March 2014
Where Autism Speaks in a Whisper
This month EdPowerment’s outreach for the autistic and otherwise intellectually disabled, (ACT/Autism Connects Tanzania) began a new chapter: support visits to rural villages. The stigma that plagues the disabled in Tanzania is fiercest in areas untouched by modern science or medicine. The disabled remain hidden. They are a social embarrassment or worse. Any attempt to…
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