A safe space for kurt to sleep

Hi everyone ! I’ve been asked to help this lovely family in need in their quest of fundraising for their little boy kurt. Kurt goes to the same special needs school as my little boy and the struggles that these little people and their families go through on a daily basis trying to get the equipment that is so vitally needed for everyday life is exhausting when the services are so underfunded, so I couldn’t not help them in setting up this page.

For kurt to be able to have a safe space bed would undoubtedly not only change his life but his whole family’s. We all know how important a good nights rest is.

Kurts Mam has wrote below a little snapshot of Kurts story.

Kurt is a 6 year old boy who was diagnosed with autism when he was 2. He has a.severe learning difficulty his learning.age is 6 -12 months. He has very limited understanding and is totally non verbal,.this makes life really hard.

Kurt requires 24 hour supervision for his own safety as he as has no awareness of any danger. He has a special needs buggy which he always needs to be in when he is out for his own safety.

Kurt doesn't sleep hardly he has between 0 and 3 hours a night and when he wakes up he needs supervision all night as he will get out of bed ,leave the room and wander the house with no awareness of what he is doing. As parents we take turns to be awake with him all night its really tough surviving on basically nothing. He shouts through the night which affects the whole house, and won't stay in his room unless someone is with him to keep him safe. He is on 8mg of melatonin which sends him to sleep but not for long. Through the day he doesn't even goto sleep he just doesn't understand and is constantly hyper. We are trying to get a special bed which will keep him safe during the night but we lack the funding to do so. This bed will change our lives and kurts aswell as it will keep him safe and hopefully train him to sleep.

Kurt struggles with everyday life if he isn't in a strict routine, he has huge meltdowns and constantly shouts and screams through the day because he cant communicate with us. Ita hard to have the same routine as what school gives him so it's tough. He's double incontinent so has no awareness of when he needs to go. He can't express.when he's hungry or thirsty. He can't cope with new faces either gets angry and lashes out or has meltdowns that last for hours. We can't even go out properly as a family as what the other 2 want to do Kurt can't cope with the environment of people, noises etc.

We survive on empty most days and that is on top of everyday life and another 2 children which 1 also has asd aswell.

Any help will be greatly appreciated or even just to share this for us would be amazing !

thank you