And how is he doing?
He is learning very well. They learn very well; they are very intelligent, only that you have to teach them to learn. They do learn but they take their time to learn. They are not like others who watch others and learn, no, you have to teach them that this is the way to do it and then they learn. They are practical learners

What are some of the challenges you have faced as a parent of an autistic child?
In Nigeria, it is mostly acceptance, accepting that my child has a challenge and I have to work with it. And then every day is a challenge because whatever challenge that child comes up with, you have to look for a way to teach that child a particular way of learning. The main challenge I have is teaching my child the social skills of life and how to understand jokes, because they don’t understand jokes. They don’t understand sarcasm so you have to teach them how to learn it. There was a particular parent who took his autistic son to church and the son was displaying an odd behaviour. The woman beside him said why did you bring this kind of son to church and he said, ‘he is my son, he has autism’. She replied that the boy did not belong to a place like that, and went ahead to suggest that the father should take him to a mental home. You can imagine how the man felt. And these are issues that others have to cope with especially when they are older.