Martin Dezzani obituary

My brother, Martin Dezzani, who has died aged 67 of acute respiratory failure, was diagnosed as autistic at the age of six. Little was known about this neurological condition then. In June 1966, aged 12, he was accepted at the pioneering National Autistic Society school for autistic children run by Sybil Elgar in Ealing, west London. It was here that his artistic talent flourished. Martin won or took second place in the Art of the Invalid Child exhibition in the City of London in four consecutiv