Name: Dr. Kapendra Shekhar Amatya
Email: kapendrasa@hotmail.com

Please tell a little about yourself and your role with autism in Nepal.

I am a Onco-Surgeon by profession. I have a 3 and half year son with Autism.He has been diagnosed when he was two years old. Since then we had attended
workshop and training in New Delhi,India. We are now working with our child with ABA techniques. Recently the parents of children with Autism have come

Name: Hem Sagar Baral
Email: autismnepal@gmail.com

Please tell a little about yourself and your role with autism in Nepal.

My name is Hem Sagar Baral with a family of 2 young daughters, 9 and 7. My background is nature conservation and I did my doctorate on ecology of Nepal’s grassland birds. When we learnt that our older daughter Sylvia is autistic we tried to get help within the country. There was very little help and a lot of people including medical doctors did not know much about autism.