Today, April 2nd, 2018, is being observed as World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD). WAAD aims to put a spotlight on the hurdles that people with Autism face everyday. As a growing global health issue owing to its increasing exposure in the press and common knowledge, Autism is an issue gaining more understanding.
Urwish and Autism
Urwish, Supporting The 2018 World Autism Awareness Day, lays emphasis on the importance of Women Empowerment and girls with Autism and involving them and their representative organisations and enhance their skills in policy and decision making to face challenges.
In an endeavour to overcome such impairments, we should not miss ‘ Mission Buniyaad’. ‘Mission Buniyaad’ attempts to improve learning level of students attending primary classes of state government and primary schools. It relates to ‘ Chunauti ‘ scheme which segregated students according to their learning levels. A survey conducted by National Council of Educational Research and Training – NCERT aimed to find out the learning standards of school children. Nearly 50% of school children of class 3 were unable to prove their learning abilities in various subjects. ‘Mission Buniyaad’ will help its under performing students, which will be divided into three groups Ujjwal, Utkarsh, and Udyam. The students will be assessed on reading abilities and basic mathematics before being divided for focused teaching.
Some people with Autism are cognitively impaired to a degree. It may include impairments in social interaction and developmental language and communication skills combined with rigid, repetitive behaviours. Because of the range of symptoms, this condition is now called autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Children may have problems in certain areas, but they may have unusually developed skills in other areas, such as drawing, creative music, solving maths problems,or memorising facts.
Light It Up Blue is a campaign to honour people with autism Worldwide.
Puzzle ribbon was adopted in 1999 as a universal sign of Autism Awareness – reflecting the complexity of the autism spectrum. The different colours and shape represent the diversity of people and families living with the condition.
However, the brightness of the ribbon signals hope – hope that through increased awareness of autism, and through early intervention and access to appropriate services / support people with autism will lead full lives and be able to interact with the world on their own terms.