Autism in Mayotte: a pressing need for professionals to further improve accompaniment

"Our son was flapping (hand beatings), running from one point A to one point B, but the teacher and the child psychiatrist didn't see anything abnormal in his behavior. We did some research on the internet and we came across a video in which a child with autism made the same gestures as our son. It was the cold shower, it wasn't possible for our child to be autistic," says Raissani Hassani, alongside Hassane Saindou, 7-year-old Gibran's parents,…