About
Peter James Association

Our goal is for society to  embrace neurodiverse children and families as part of the mainstream. That means recognizing their special needs and providing support so they can participate as fully as possible as members of the community. We do this by creating awareness of neurodiverse conditions, discouraging stigma in the community and offering support to the families of those children and advocating for them. We create awareness to sensitise and educate the community about neurodiverse conditions so that they are better understood. This improves the chances of an early diagnosis, early intervention and therefore an improved quality of life becomes possible.

We support by providing quality information and meaningful connections for intervention to patients and caregivers of children living with neurodiverse conditions. Whenever possible we also give practical support  such as diapers, food blenders, educational toys and assistive devices such as wheelchairs and orthosis. We advocate with politicians, medical services and other organisations that are important to these families. An example of our successful advocacy was an online campaign to have Proctor and Gamble produce a larger size of diaper, size 7, specifically for children living with cerebral palsy and other conditions who continue to need diapers even until their teenage years.

As part of our support, we create safe environments where parents and caregivers of children can interact, share their stories and offer each other emotional support. An important result of this is the establishment of self-help groups to encourage mutual support.

There is still a great deal of stigma and discrimination against families that live with neurodiverse conditions. It is a sad fact that when a child with one of these neurodiverse conditions is born, most fathers abandon their family because of the stigma. At Peter James Association, we discourage such stigmatisation of neurodivergent children and their families and advocate for inclusivity.