On April 19, 2004, George’s mother was very excited to tell me that George was no longer classified as “light retardation” after the annual assessment by his school. I was so happy to hear it as well because such success was due to our joint efforts.

George was a very lovely child. He did not like to cry much since he was very small. He could play by himself for a long period of time. When he was around three year-old, he started to show some abnormal behaviors. For example, when other children came to visit his home and stayed temporarily, he would start crying and his crying was hard to stop. Sometimes he even vomited and had fever from the situation. Such behavior could not stop until the visiting child left. Then he was found that his learning ability was not as good as his peers and he could not focus his attention and did not like to participate in the activities with others. At age 5 he was diagnosed as light autism and was classified as light retardation by his school.

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