Today marks the World Autism Day, a day where everyone is commemorated on April 2 this disease since 2007. This year's theme invites us to recognize the importance of kindness towards people with autism.
The United Nations declared April 2 as World Autism Day, and it has been celebrated every April 2 since 2007.
The objective is to make the general population aware of the existence of autism spectrum disorders, and the possibilities that these people have to insert themselves socially. Ultimately, inclusion is everyone's right.
On this day, it has always been associated with lighting the monuments and historical buildings of the countries with blue color. This color is an emblem that shows support for autistic people and their families.
This year, in 2021, the theme chosen for World Autism Day is "lead with kindness." Thus, two main axes of the social inclusion of these people are covered, education and the most labor issue.
As for the statistics, an estimated 1 in 160 children has some degree of autism spectrum disorder. In any case, these data may be undervalued, because the detection of this phenomenon is uneven on the planet.
Autism and autism spectrum disorder
Currently it is preferable to speak of autism spectrum disorders, since there are different degrees of affectation. On this day, the knowledge of the disease is deepenedToday, it is preferred to say autism spectrum disorder than simply to say autistic.
These disorders are characterized by altered social behavior, they have deficiencies in language and communication, as well as repetitive patterns of behavior.
On the other hand, it is common for autistic people to show no interest in their surroundings and environment, and also avoid physical contact with others.
This disease includes developmental problems, because the early onset of this disorder is at 3 years of age and all the defining characteristics of autism will accompany them throughout their lives.
There are various degrees of affectation, since one child may suffer a more serious alteration than another, so the exercises and teachings have to be adapted to each patient.
World Autism Day Kindness Campaign
In this day, April 2, World Autism Day is commemorated and this year has the motto "lead with kindness" this represents an absolute invitation that the treatment received by these people with autism spectrum disorders has a constant empathic component.
Kindness must be present in any society, both in social relationships, and within learning and work.
A fantastic opportunity has been evidenced from distance activities so that autistic people can join the actions with different social guarantees.
Kindness is translated in this case as inclusion, they have to have greater opportunities and the use of innovation to adjust certain tasks to those who suffer from this disease.
What is sought with this campaign is that people start individual reflection and proliferates to all corners of society.
Goals of the World Autistism Day campaign
To achieve the main objective of the campaign, which is to give kindness, be kind and be more aware of the existence of this disease, on this day a series of objectives are promoted that can be practiced to achieve a full transformation in society.
The way to lead with kindnessFor example, it could be that all the people who seek to work with this disorder have more open doors to companies. In addition, to have in our policies, better conditions for inclusion to be real.
Connect with kindness
With this, the expansion of information from the social networks that we all use is focused, which is encouraged to replicate heroic stories of autistic individuals, where effective treatment manuals can be shared and fostering an increase in the support community.
Take care with kindness
Finally, it is also encouraged that care and help should be made up of response teams specialized in autism, promote communication between autistic communities in order to favor support and promote hospital networks and lines of research to improve therapies and the treatments to follow.
Autism and work
On this day, a call is made to increase job opportunities for people with this condition.
From the association of Autism Europe, they calculate that around 80% of people with an autism spectrum disorder are unemployed. This figure is very high and complicates the quality of life of patients with autism.
One option that can be made is to favor the work of autistic people with low functioning through occupational therapy. This low functioning refers to the lesser possibilities of relationship that the patient has with the outside world.
Occupational therapy can be carried out through workshops that adapt to all real possibilities that autistic people can develop in a simple, coordinated way that allows them to grow and improve.
On the other hand, if the person suffers from high-functioning autism, that is, they can cope with more social relationship with the outside world, there are other options to give them an option more focused on job placement.
The most common way in these cases is the accompaniment of a trained operator who will guide the autistic person in their daily tasks and tasks within the workplace.. This operator assists the patient in employment and helps in the relationship with his co-workers so that the employment relationship is as good as possible and everyone is comfortable and productive during the working day.
We remember that currently, cause and origin unknown of this disease, the cause that explains the appearance of the autism spectrum disorder has not been determined, but it has been analyzed that there is a very strong genetic implication in its origin.