Autism Research and Multidisciplinary School (ARMS) is going to conduct a programme to celebrate the World Autism Day on April 2 to promote awareness about the complex neuro disorder at 4.30pm in LEPL Mall here.
ARMS correspondent and parent of an autistic child Sindhuma said that only when the parents are aware that the child had the condition it was possible to help them overcome the condition. It was not a disease that could be cured, but a condition with which the person lived with, she explained.
Autism spectrum disorders were the third most common development disorders. The rate at which it was growing was alarming. It had become more common than Down ’s syndrome.
In India the incidence was one in 250 children, on the whole 18 million children in the country were affected by autism, she said. The school was being run by Abhaya Care Foundation. Dr Sindhuma is a homeopathic physician and founder of the school. The school had special educators, physiotherapist and a speech therapist.