Tag: Autism

No awareness for autism

Vishisht Dwivedi73

Technical issue disrupts  the online autism awareness program organized by the central government. Teachers and parents who attended the online autism awareness program organized by The National Trust for the Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities, complained that they got nothing out of the program. Bhrat Kumar Rathore, Principal […]

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Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) ignored: researcher

Ashna Mariam George99

Non-pharmacological interventions like animal assisted therapy are useful for adults with ASD. The mental health sector in the country lacks intervention and therapy programmes for adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Though early intervention in autistic children is given importance but adult care is often neglected. Hemangi Narvekar, a research scholar at the Department of Psychology, […]

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