As Nepal announces schools for autistic children across all provinces, here’s what to heed

For fifteen years, a handful of schools have supported children with autism with little government help.

When Shekhar Dhakal’s daughter Pihu was two years old, she was diagnosed with autism. He enrolled her in a nearby school, but the staff struggled to manage her behaviour. She felt isolated. So Dhakal emptied the ground floor of his home in Banasthali and hired a teacher to teach her.