The Holden family live on the end of a terraced street in the middle
of Hartlepool. There are six of them: Stuart, 36, his wife Lorna, 33,
and four kids: Faith, 8, Noah, 6, Elijah, 2, and Sam, 4.
You'd
think of them as a thoroughly ordinary family, finding their way through
the kind of trying circumstances that now seem to define the national
condition, were it not for one detail: Sam, is autistic, and just
starting to talk. "He was very non-verbal: shut off," Lorna tells me.
"Now, he's starting to communicate what he wants. But it's still only
one or two words at a time."
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