A guide to integrating autistic people into society by Hotel★★★ Restaurant Coco Lodge Mahajanga.
Private initiatives are multiplying to help autism. After the different celebra¬tions and the creation of centre specialized, a practical guide has been released to help families.
Practical and easy to read for all audiences. This is the objective of Guide for autism., Malagasy version, launched by autism Madagascar Steering Committee, Saturday, to Antaninarenina. Apart from the presentation of the features characterizing people with these pervasive developmental disorders, the guide also aims to educate a wide public, in order to integrate Autistic Society. "People with autism are considered., sometimes, as Bewitched or victims of an evil spell. So the company is struggling to live with them. This guide thus constitutes a big step forward, to advise and teach him how to live in harmony with people with autism., welcomed by Nivomanitra Randriaritiana, mother of an autistic child.
Eric Raveloarimisa, President of the Autism Madagascar Steering Committee, has added that the main target group would be parents. "The project will also target professionals from the medical world and the structures that support children like schools., the specialized centres and the community., She added.
Spread of the guide.
Various issues are thus explained in the guide as the weaknesses and strengths of autistic persons. People with autism are thus characterised by their hypo or hyper sensitivity, see intolerance to certain sounds and frequencies. The lack of awareness of the tone of voice also differentiates autistic children. But, the fact that most concerns parents and residents is the insensitivity of people with autism to pain including self-harm.
Despite these worrying characteristics, Autism benefits as visual perception marked by a quick scan of the Visual information focused on interests and a peripheral vision. People with autism also have extraordinary abilities in certain areas such as the musi¬que, reading, Mathematics and languages. These are the qualities that should be exploited to help people with autism to integrate within society.
Some coping strategies are outlined in this guide to provide better guidance to people with autism including the methods of instruction for an efficient job on table. The level of adequate understanding, the attractiveness of the teaching, progressive learning, sobriety and clarity as well as education adapted to the age of the person are the foundations of education adapted to people with autism.
The only downside in this initiative is the extension of this guide. To hear a source within the Autism Madagascar Steering Committee, We should also wait before funding of dispatcher this guide for the Malagasy. This is how the Professor Milijaona Randrianarivelojosia, Member of the Steering Committee, has insisted on the need of the establishment of the Autism Plan in Madagascar in order to respond to the distress of households living with autism in the capital and in the regions.
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