Team Herald
PANJIM: Parents and teachers of Lourdes Convent High School, Saligao recently held various autism awareness programmes to mark World Autism Awareness Day, which is celebrated to create awareness on autism and help autistic children.
The autistic children, parents and teachers wore blue in support of the awareness and help rallies at several places.
As per a statement issued by parents, children were shown movies to educate and sensitize them regarding autism. An awareness walk was held in the village, and parents of the resource room had an awareness walk in Porvorim , where they distributed awareness pamphlets.
“I am a parent of a 15-year-old boy with autism. He is a student of the resource room in Lourdes Convent High School. Over the years I have experienced firsthand benefits of living in an environment of an autism aware, autism accepting and autism including school and community,” a parent said.
“But this would not have been possible without the foot soldiers of autism, the special educators, assistants and teachers, whose efforts often go unnoticed. Their prime objective has always been welfare of children with autism,” the parent said appealing to the people to be more autism aware, autism accepting and autism including.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), commonly known as autism is a disability in development that affects how a person communicates and relates to people. Children and adults with autism have difficulties with social interaction. Their capacity to develop friendships is generally limited, as their ability to understand the emotional expression of others. People with autism can often have learning disabilities, and all share a difficulty in relation to the world around them.
