Chris Bohan is a designer, jeweller, and fulltime mother in Victoria. In 2005, her normal, happy toddler Jade started to lose her language skills and developed challenging behaviours almost overnight. She took Jade to a speech therapist, only to learn her daughter had Regressive Autism. She was heartbroken and devastated, and cried herself to sleep for months.
Since she couldn’t sleep, she started to read. Slowly but surely, she educated herself in the necessary steps to take to get Jade on a road to recovery. It took four years of full-time, intensive intervention, but with the help of so many others who had successfully recovered their children, along with the Mindd Foundation, Chris saw amazing results for her daughter.
Now, at the age of 15, Jade is fully recovered. She is beautiful and incredibly creative, and lights up her parent’s lives. And Chris Bohan has set up Chris Bohan Jewellery, an opportunity to design unique jewellery, to share her journey with her daughter, and raise awareness of Mindd to help others at the same time.