Autistic young man, Javed Henry comes good in CSEC Henry sat five subjects and received grade two in mathematics, social studies and accounts.

BY KIMBERLEY HIBBERT
Senior staff reporter
hibbertk@jamaicaobserver.com

Sunday, October 04, 2020

TWO years ago Javed Henry was happy his friends did not treat him with indifference because he is autistic, but today his happiness transcends to his recent success in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.

Javed Henry

“I feel very excited and glad about the passes. I feel blessed to know I came out successful,” he told the Jamaica Observer.

Henry sat five subjects and received grade two in mathematics, social studies and accounts. He received a grade one in principles of business and electronic document preparation management. Henry did English language in grade 10 and received a grade three in the subject.

But it was his mother, Joan Parker, who could not contain her joy though she shared that initially she was nervous about seeing the results.

In an interview with the Sunday Observer's Career and Education in 2018 to mark Autism Awareness Month in April, Parker said when she learnt she was pregnant, she expected a healthy, bouncing baby, and right up until her child turned two, she believed things were going as planned.

“He was born on the 27th of April, 2002. He seemed to be a healthy child and the only thing was that two days after he was born he had jaundice. When I took him home everything was okay. He rolled himself and turned on his own before he was six weeks old and he walked at nine months. The only thing is that he did not speak,” she said in that interview.