Education & jobs for autistics: Laws exist but is there enough compassion?

Few schools are equipped to cater to children with ASD, spawning a set of educators called 'shadow teachers'. Some parents are even home-schooling to keep their wards career ready

Six-year-old Ayush is autistic and cries and shouts for hours in class each time his parents drop him off at school. He doesn't respond to teachers' instructions and flaps his hands with random objects. A loner, he doesn't mix with other children and spends much of the day running and jumping around, ignoring classroom activities.

"As a mother, I find it difficult to send my son to school," a Mumbai-based mother of another autistic child told Business Standard, requesting anonymity. So she usually waits outside his classroom to ensure he doesn't create trouble for himself. Frequent requests to allow her