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The cultural values that families have around autism or disability are not necessarily always negative. Because that's what literature often suggests that if a family has autism and they come from minority ethnic communities, they are somehow backward, sometimes it suggests. But in fact, some of the aspects that-- or cultural beliefs that families may have could actually be helpful. So if you believe that your child has been given to you with autism because of God's willing on this kind of a thing, it's not necessarily negative. Because that might actually help the parents to accept the child more easily and try and find how to help that child.

Similarly, some cultural groups really still say let's look at the child and look at that kind of support of the whole community around that child, which does exist in some of the communities in the UK, can be quite helpful again because they're not necessarily looking at labelling the child or identifying the child with a disability, but they are saying, this is how this person functions. Now how do we as a community look after and support--