Amanda Robbemond
FOUR months ago little Kai Patch wouldn’t turn around when his name was repeatedly called.
Diagnosed with autism in October last year, the two-year-old struggled to talk, make eye contact or interact.
Worried about his future, his parents, Sonya and Ben Patch, decided to move the family north from NSW to enrol at Arundel’s Little Souls Taking Big Steps, one of two autistic centres on the Coast and the only one that provides a one-on-one therapy program.