Introduction
I first met Dick O'Donovan in March 2000 when David (my husband) and I were looking for an autsim specific residential home for our oldest daughter Naomi, who was in the process at that time of being diagnosed with being on the autistic spectrum. At that time he was manager of Hollyrood the Disabilities Trust's flagship autism specific residential home.
Dick has a tremdendous sense of humour which is quite wicked and is very much needed when you're dealing with the day to day problems with trouble shooting how to run an autism specific residential home successfully, especially for the Disabilities Trust.
He talks here about autism and how to care for the adult with autism.
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