The French-speaking Community has not kept its promise of providing the necessary structures to people with autism, reveals a new study across various sectors of the Brussels-Capital Region's disability services.
The findings were revealed during a parliamentary committee on Monday. The study, conducted at the behest of Belgium's French-speaking Community, highlighted the desperate need for autism to be acknowledged and accepted not just in Brussels but in society as a whole.
The study's authors came to this conclusion after assessing the results of an online poll in which people with autism said that it was difficult to identify which benefits they were entitled to.
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This was mainly attributed to the highly fragmented levels of power in the Brussels area and the provision of information that is not sorted according to the specific needs of people with disabilities.
Several categories of people also fall through the cracks of the protective net, including people with cerebral palsy, who are sometimes placed in rest homes at a very young age, and people with unstabilised epilepsy.
