I heard this on 5 live earlier, brilliant.
TOUCHING video shows the moment an autistic boy with a lifelong fear of music overcomes his terror to deliver a stunning rendition of a classic song. Justin Kiely-May, nine, regularly needed to wear ear defenders to avoid becoming upset by high-pitched music. But footage shows the youngster from Dublin singing a near-perfect version of Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. Justin heard Alexandra Burke's version of the song on the radio recently and immediately fell in love with the tune.
Proud parents.
Around a year after Justin was born, Andrea realised her son was behind in his speech development and struggling to form basic sentences.
She brought him to see a specialist who later diagnosed him with autism and signed him up with an early intervention team.
Justin was unable to speak until he was three-years-old.
The proud mum continued: "We always knew he had a nice voice, but he was playing last week with his drawings, and was just doing his daily routine. Then he was singing and blew me and his dad away.
"He was only in from school and he likes to play with his books and drawings.
"I had the music on. I do have to be careful of what I play, because there some songs he doesn't like.
"But then he just started singing, so I turned the music down and took my phone out and recorded him."
TOUCHING video shows the moment an autistic boy with a lifelong fear of music overcomes his terror to deliver a stunning rendition of a classic song. Justin Kiely-May, nine, regularly needed to wear ear defenders to avoid becoming upset by high-pitched music. But footage shows the youngster from Dublin singing a near-perfect version of Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. Justin heard Alexandra Burke's version of the song on the radio recently and immediately fell in love with the tune.
Proud parents.
Around a year after Justin was born, Andrea realised her son was behind in his speech development and struggling to form basic sentences.
She brought him to see a specialist who later diagnosed him with autism and signed him up with an early intervention team.
Justin was unable to speak until he was three-years-old.
The proud mum continued: "We always knew he had a nice voice, but he was playing last week with his drawings, and was just doing his daily routine. Then he was singing and blew me and his dad away.
"He was only in from school and he likes to play with his books and drawings.
"I had the music on. I do have to be careful of what I play, because there some songs he doesn't like.
"But then he just started singing, so I turned the music down and took my phone out and recorded him."
