Enkâ clothes: celebration of an extraordinary boy

What a great way to celebrate happiness and share it only to create clothes with funny sentences inspired by an extraordinary boy!This is the idea that Nancy Gaudreau and Richard Guillemette had with the Initiative of the Enkish clothes.

To start at the start, you have to know the project instigators, Nancy and Richard.

Nancy Gaudreau is the mother of three children.She has been a speech therapist for 16 years with children and adolescents and has lived in Beauce for twenty years.It was thanks to her son Victor that she discovered this profession that fascinates her and does not regret for anything in the world her former job as a lawyer.

Richard Guillemette, meanwhile, has been a specialized educator for 28 years.He intervenes with young people, their families and the various stakeholders who revolve around them.He has been Victor's educator for almost 21 years and "we've been really fun for about 15 years", from his words.

A boy with emotions livesvictor is a 24 -year -old young man.At the age of seven months, he had lightning meningitis which carried him a month in intensive care and which left him several sequelae in the cerebral cortex.

"So he has a somewhat mixed portrait," said his mother in a virtual interview with Enbeauce.com.Indeed, some of his behaviors are similar to those of a person with an autism spectrum disorder, in particular by processing information.However, he is very sociable, he is very empathetic and recognizes the emotions of people.He speaks well, but has an important intellectual disability and needs support.

When he was younger, he had very big mood management problems.He was never violent towards others, but he self -mutated and made huge anger attacks, he bit his clothes and tore off his clothes.That, for several years. "It was really difficult periods, we tried all kinds of business," said Nancy."All his emotions went towards an exaggeration, he had no regulation.»»

At that time, Richard entered the life of the little boy."We both felt that there was something to do and that Victor had the potential to work," said the mother.

"It is not the knowledge that should be worked, but rather something that structures thought, which allows you to manage.We didn't really know that, but we were interested in it.Victor changed our practice and he changed everyone's practice in the field, because we are now lecturing and training on how we have adapted with Victor, "added Richard Guillemette.

Together, they then worked specifically on the regulation of emotions.They started from a work for children aged 7 to 10, written by a neuro psychoanalyst, and adapted it to Victor who was younger.

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In the space of a year, he learned to control himself and the family daily life was much easier to manage. "He began to speak in his head, to control himself, to master his emotions.From there we had less and less, and even more at all, crises, "testified Nancy.

A young man who transmits the good little boy's humor has become tall and is now a very interesting and very sociable guy.To communicate more easily, he built many sentences and expressions to make people laugh, punctuated by "Enkâ".This is how the idea of these famous sweaters was born.

"It was that everyone was talking like him in our environment.All the time, ”said her mother."It is because these words did everywhere!He uses them in the right places, but we, by force, we use them at times when it's weird, it's fun.It's like "have fun with my words" "added the educator.

Without any monetary goal, the two accomplices, now linked by a solid friendship, wanted to celebrate this collective joy.They were surprised to see that the project was going beyond the borders they had imagined.

"There are even people we don't know who have ordered sweaters.It looks like they want to communicate the happiness of having Victor with you.It’s about people you don’t know, but who want to feel that.»»

Several former Victor educators also ordered copies and came to get them at home, which touched Nancy a lot."It made incredible moments when Victor proudly gave them their sweaters.There was a lot of love in this project and these exchanges.»»

"Let's love life, that's just it.After more than two years with this project in mind, Nancy and Richard launched their shop on Facebook during the pandemic.The clothes are also made in collaboration with the company Clothing Ann Dallaire in Saint-Joseph-des-Rébles.

Thanks to the money collected, Nancy pays for his son a second hour of sport per week with a personal coach."It makes him a lot of good to train, after he is relaxed for at least 24 hours, we see that he is less anxious, etc.».

To get a copy, you just have to order on the Facebook clothing page Entekâ, by sending a private message.In the fall there will be new models.

"We find that it brings out the beautiful qualities of the human, the real, the authenticity.It wakes up morale, as Victor would say.»»