Challenges parents face raising children with autism in China
In China, children with autism are referred to as ‘children of the stars’, because communicating with them has been compared to talking to an alien. There isn’t much support for them or their families. Wang Xuetao, 13, has never spoken clearly and can be extremely disobedient from time to time. His mother, Yang Yang, whose husband is mentally disabled, has been struggling to raise her son by herself.