“We need to paint the school green, blue yellow and red...” The construction workers had looked at me like I was crazy for my unconventional color palette, but what could they do. I had founded that school and I decided to paint it green for mental awareness and blue, yellow and red for autism.
The school opened in 2035. I had founded a school for low income children with autism and its spectrum related mental disorders . At first, it was small school with a few classrooms. Our main contributions came from generous donors and organizations. Later, however, the small school had flourished and we partnered with associations such as the Autism Society and National Alliance on Mental Disorders.
We were targeting students whose parent could not afford to place them in privates schools but needed special focuses and attention. Each class was uniquely molded based on the autistic spectrum, with only 15 or so children per class.
But of course the children were not isolated. I learned long ago through my social research the key to helping autistic children was interaction. Volunteers made sure the children felt motivated and eager to …show more content…
“You are the reason I made this,” I told him. Alfredo is my cousin who, at the age of two, was detected with asperger syndrome, my first introduction to mental disorders. Every Thursday of my youth when I took care of him, I would notice his bright mind. How he knew his shapes, number, and even memorized his father’s license plate .From then on, I had began to notice many of my friends had siblings with autism at a high spectrum. Even a few students I had worked with in a summer camp my sophomore year had similar autistic characteristics.I soon discovered that autistic people tend to be mathematically and intellectually gifted, yet this came at the cost of their social skills. These children have capacities that are distinct, but they may not develop well in the standard
The school opened in 2035. I had founded a school for low income children with autism and its spectrum related mental disorders . At first, it was small school with a few classrooms. Our main contributions came from generous donors and organizations. Later, however, the small school had flourished and we partnered with associations such as the Autism Society and National Alliance on Mental Disorders.
We were targeting students whose parent could not afford to place them in privates schools but needed special focuses and attention. Each class was uniquely molded based on the autistic spectrum, with only 15 or so children per class.
But of course the children were not isolated. I learned long ago through my social research the key to helping autistic children was interaction. Volunteers made sure the children felt motivated and eager to …show more content…
“You are the reason I made this,” I told him. Alfredo is my cousin who, at the age of two, was detected with asperger syndrome, my first introduction to mental disorders. Every Thursday of my youth when I took care of him, I would notice his bright mind. How he knew his shapes, number, and even memorized his father’s license plate .From then on, I had began to notice many of my friends had siblings with autism at a high spectrum. Even a few students I had worked with in a summer camp my sophomore year had similar autistic characteristics.I soon discovered that autistic people tend to be mathematically and intellectually gifted, yet this came at the cost of their social skills. These children have capacities that are distinct, but they may not develop well in the standard