Where Autism Speaks in a Whisper

A woman standing in front of two people.

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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