Carina Morillo: To understand autism, don't look away
卡莉娜·莫瑞羅: 要想了解自閉症，別移開視線
Carina Morillo is an advocate for the social inclusion of people with autism. Full bio
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into an eye-contact coach.
他今年 15 歲。
都以圖片的形式存在。
exists in images.
醫生診斷出他的疾病。
when he was two and a half.
or to anything we asked him,
包括他的名字，
he would look at me,
在這方面努力，
to working with him on those things,
eye-contact moments.
和他的姐姐阿麗克西亞一起，
with his older sister, Alexia,
我能感覺到他的生命力。
I could feel he was alive.
好幾個小時的記錄。
in a swimming pool.
we'd go swimming.
我們還是會去游泳。
and I took the wrong exit.
inconsolably, nonstop,
that a two and a half year old
對自己的名字毫無反應，
where I couldn't see anything,
有著出色的視覺記憶，
had an exceptional visual memory,
pictures of everything,
Ivan's eye contact that mattered.
not only his autism,
to give of myself.
我也需要奉獻自己。
住宅區接受治療。
in a neighborhood near our house.
while I was waiting for him,
with a little bit of everything.
告訴他伊萬有自閉症，
to walk down the street by himself,
if Thursdays around 2pm,
貨架上的水瓶，
the water bottles on the shelves,
some chocolate cookies,
of water bottles
lined up on the same side,
with his chocolate cookies.
也不需要什麼英雄壯舉。
之間的關係更加緊密。
to look each other in the eye,
打開整個世界。
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Carina Morillo - Autism advocateCarina Morillo is an advocate for the social inclusion of people with autism.
Why you should listen
Carina Morillo is a founding member and president of Fundación Brincar, a non-profit organization in Argentina that has worked since 2010 for a better quality of life of people with autism and their families.
Morillo started Fundación Brincar -- inspired by her son Ivan, who is currently 16 years old and has autism -- because she strongly believes that although life with autism can be challenging, her family and others like it have the right to be happy. In spite of its high prevalence, most people still don't know what autism is about or how to help someone with autism. The foundation offers support services and training to families and professionals, community awareness programs and art and skills training for children, youth and adults on the autism spectrum. Brincar has trained more than 15,000 professionals and families, and it currently offers support services to more than 3,000 families throughout Argentina. The foundation's free virtual library monthly reaches 400,000 people per month throughout Latin America and Spain. Brincar is also founding member of the Argentina Network of Autism, and has become one of the leading autism references for both families, health professionals and teachers in Argentina and Latin America.
Morillo is actively working on the creation of an adult life platform for living with autism. Like many parents, her main concern is who will take care of her son during his adult life. Around one-third of people with autism remain nonverbal, and one-third have an intellectual disability, requiring 24/7 support throughout their life. Existing facilities and services in Argentina and Latin America are limited to school age, with no residence or occupation solutions for anyone older than 18.
Morillo has been awarded the 2016 US Ambassador in Argentina Entrepreneur Prize and the 2014 Argentine Solidarity Prize. In April 2017, Fundación Brincar was declared of Social Interest by the Congress of the City of Buenos Aires for its open community services. Morillo holds a BS in Business Administration degree of Babson College.
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