Speaker - Ingrida Baranauskiene - Doctor of Social Sciences, professor, head of department at the Department of Social Work at Klaipeda University, Lithuania.

Each case is not an invented situation, but a real story. The case is based on letters and questions related to negative situations that have occurred in families, where parents ask for clarification on what to do in this or that situation.

We received a letter with this content:

Hello.

I live in a countryside. My daughter Masha is 5 years old and has an autism.

Very soon it will be necessary to send the child to school and I am very worried about how it will affect her, how she will interact with other children and teachers.

There are no special correctional centers in our township, so the only way for her to get an education is to go to a regular school.

In this regard, I have a number of questions:

* Won't the regular school environment hurt her?

* What is the right way to prepare her for school?

* How will she interact with other children and teachers?

* What should we expect in the future, considering her diagnosis?