When Virginia Bovell realised there were no schools offering the intensive support that doctors said her three-year-old autistic son needed back in 1997, she got together with four other families and set up a specialist school offering intensive, autism-specific teaching.
Fourteen years later Treehouse, the school they created in north London, is recognised internationally as a model for how children with autism should be taught.
But Bovell has recently found herself confronted with a new challenge.
Her son Danny, now 18, is on the brink of leaving school and she has been searching for a suitable place for him to continue his education. Dismayed at the quality of what's on offer for children with autism after school, once again she has joined forces with other parents to campaign for radical improvement.
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We in the UK lag woefully behind in support for young people on the spectrum and their families compared to the rest of Europe and the USA
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