Doctor brings hope and help to autistic children

Whenever Li watches her 3-year-old son getting along well with other children in the kindergarten, she gets so emotional that tears well up in her eyes. Such scenes, which may seem normal to most parents, used to be beyond her wildest dreams until she met a doctor last October.

"My son was diagnosed with autism in September 2013. I felt at a loss thinking about his future," says the young mother from Zhejiang province, who only wants to be known by her surname Li.

"I could not even touch his hands," she recalls from those desperate days, adding that her son behaved differently from other children of the same age - he never smiled or expressed his feelings to anyone.