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Vietnam has held 2017 World Autism Awareness Day in the second time
Vietnam has held 2017 World Autism Awareness Day in the second time
2/4/17
Hundreds of children with autism in
Hanoi and nearby provinces and cities participated in a festival in Hanoi
Children Palace on Sunday to mark World Autism Awareness Day 2017. This
is the second time Vietnam has held activities in this increasing important day
in people’s lives.
The United Nations has designated April 2nd World Autism Awareness Day,
calling for greater attention to autism. People with autism in Vietnam are
being helped to lead a normal life and become integrated into society.
The festival aimed to provide more
information about the disease and treatment methods, as well as call on society
to care for children with autism.
In response to “World Autism Awareness Day” on April
2, the club for families with autistic children of Hanoi under the Hanoi
Handicapped Association on March 30 held a meeting to raise awareness of autism
among the public.
In fact, many parents do not know
how to recognise whether their children suffer from autism or not. Normally,
children with autism live far from the community. They tend to make and play
with things themselves. Moreover, they find it difficult to pronounce words and
communicate with others. Autistic children are often suddenly angry and shout.
Small geniuses might be autistic,
many reseaches say. Therefore, it is a must to take children with abnormal
symptoms to hospitals for checking and then for suitable and timely treatment.
Le Thi Lan Anh of HCM city has an autistic daughter,
whose syndrome was detected when she was just 23 months old. Lan Anh was shocked
because she had thought autism was caused by parents’ neglect of their
children. She learned that autism is a kind of developmental disability with
many manifestations, whose causes remain unknown. People with autism often have
difficulties in social interaction and communication, display unusual
behaviors, and sometimes have emotional disorders. Lan Anh said she has been
trying to find effective treatment for her daughter for the last 15 years:
“There have been a lot of difficulties. I first had to get over the pain of a
mother and a lack of sympathy from other people. Many people, even my
relatives, think a child gets autism because his parents don’t give him enough
attention. It’s been a psychological struggle for me and others to overcome
this thinking.”
Early detection of autism can help
children integrate into society more easily before complications arise. There
is no cure for autism and the treatment of autistic people in Vietnam is beset
with difficulties. The struggle with autism is always long and difficult but
early detection and prompt intervention will give the children a better chance
of independent living. Vu Thi Thanh Dao, Director of the Minh An special
education center in Nghe An province, said: “Many of the 3,000 people with
autism in Nghe An are disadvantaged children. They can’t just follow all the
intervention processes. Autism is a life-long developmental disability.”
Increasing awareness of autism and
sharing between families whose children are autistic is helping to minimize the
burden of autism. In April, 2015, Ha Long city’s Center for Social Affairs
established a club for with autistic children, which provides its members with
effective ways to help their children integrate into society.
Pham Thi Kim Tam of Ho Chi Minh
city, whose child is autistic, established the Tuoi Ngoc Special Education
School in Binh Thanh district. She hopes that there will soon be more medical
centers capable of providing diagnostic autism assessments and early autism
detection materials: “If children with autism remain undiagnosed they will lack
proper medical and educational intervention. The state should have statistics
on autistic children from which to devise appropriate policies.”
Special education centers for
children with autism have become reliable places for parents to find treatment
for their children. These centers give autistic children greater access to
proper care and treatment and help them adapt to social groups.
Earlier the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social
Affairs and Vietnam Network of People with Autism held a workshop featuring the
situation of and solutions to autism in Vietnam.
Experts urged for more career
guidance for these children and to encourage businesses to use the products
made by children with autism.
Dang Huynh Mai, Chairwoman of the Vietnam Federation on Disability,
said: “We propose the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs add this
type of disability to the legal framework so that children with autism can
benefit the rights to access medical services and employment.”./.
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There are various approaches and strategies that teachers and support staff can use to help develop the behaviour, language and communication skills of children with autism.
Many children with autism find it easier to understand the world about them through visual aids.
Comic Strip Conversations assist children with autism to develop greater social understanding, by providing visual representations of the different levels of communication that take place in a conversation, using symbols, stick figure drawings and colour.
Some children with autism respond well to drama and role play activities to help them learn social skills such as greetings, turn taking in conversation and watching for cues in social skills groups.
A Circle of Friends or buddy system can also help a child with autism understand the social world of the classroom and the playground.
the teacher needs to analyse what had been going on before the outburst that might have upset the child, and teach them some other way of communicating what they want.
Being emotionally strong allows you to be the best parent you can be to your child in need.
Connecting with a child with ASD can be challenging, but you don’t need to talk—or even touch—in order to communicate and bond.
A child coping with ASD is still a child. For both children with ASD and their parents, there needs to be more to life than therapy.
With so many different treatments available, it can be tough to figure out which approach is right for your child. Making things more complicated, you may hear different or even conflicting recommendations from parents, teachers, and doctors.
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