Jake is happiest when he's running around his small farming town and watching the trucks fill up with grain at the silo. The freedom has let his education flourish.
Luckily for him, home is in the grain and sheep farming district of Lameroo in South Australia's Mallee, where trucks are always rolling by."I can hear trucks from ages away and I can tell what truck it is," Jake says.The tight-knit community of Lameroo is home to about 800 people.The adventurous and spirited youngster is autistic, has attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and dyslexia.
He began homeschooling with his mum and grandmother Jody Hall, who's also neurodivergent, in August last year. "The community here has been so welcoming to our family with our various disabilities, I've never felt somewhere so much like home."Locals have to wait a long time or travel hundreds of kilometres to access occupational therapists, speech pathologists and psychologists."The coffee shop is the heart of the town," Ms Chapman says.At the cafe, Jake mingles with regular customers and visitors, young and old."Here the people look out for each other.
"I really believe that Jake will be a truck driver. His dad Chris is a truck driver, his whole life is around it," Ms Hall says.
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