Advice - a new Genie

[Eva Berglund]

Dear info-childes community,

In my spare-time I am politically involved in "social-welfare" , where we
have to decide about support to children and families in need, and the
following is a case that we learned of yesterday on our monthly meeting.

Last week arrived to Sweden a mother, who has been living herer for the
last 8-10 years, with her child that she has fetched from her previous
homeland. They went straigth to the social-welfare office and the mother
declared that she is unable to take care of her child.

The child was therefore transferred to an institution dedicated to children
in different kinds of need.

However, when the situation became a bit more clear they found out that the
child's needs were not of the usual kind in any way.

The child was born about 10 years ago, and the mother said that she more or
less immediately found out that there was something wrong with the child,
and that she could not take care of him. Thus, the child was left to a
relative, who kept the child in a room and fed the child through a hole
under the door.

Thus, the child can hardly any words, eventually a few words in his native
language (which is completely unrelated to Swedish). The child is reluctant
to new food and eats mainly porridge and milk, and they say that they
suspect that the child has some sort of autism or maybe hearing loss.
Furthermore, there are scars on the child's head and body, so he seems to
have been physically abused also.

So, suddenly we have a child here who resembles the famous Genie case, and
we are urgently in need for advice about how to help this child in the best
way.

I am so grateful for any advice or links to references that you can provide
tho help in this heart-breaking case.

Sincerely,

Eva Berglund

Department of Special Education

Stockholm University

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