Introduction
I first met Dick O'Donovan in March 2000 when David (my husband) and I were looking for an autsim specific residential home for our oldest daughter Naomi, who was in the process at that time of being diagnosed with being on the autistic spectrum. At that time he was manager of Hollyrood the Disabilities Trust's flagship autism specific residential home.
Dick has a tremdendous sense of humour which is quite wicked and is very much needed when you're dealing with the day to day problems with trouble shooting how to run an autism specific residential home successfully, especially for the Disabilities Trust.
Here is the abridged transcript where he talks about autism and how to care for the adult with autism.
Interview
VW: Dick O'Donovan - we met way back in 2000 when David and I were looking for a suitable place that had not only a high standard but good holistic care for our daughter Naomi, who is on the Autistic Spectrum. You took us around all houses that you have on this plot of land called Hollyrood. We had lunch and saw a carer looking after a client - as people who come here are called, and could see that there was tender loving care there. But how did you get involved in Hollyrood and the Disabilities Trust?
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