Carina Morillo: To understand autism, don't look away
カリーナ・モリージョ: 自閉症を理解したいなら、目をそらさないで
Carina Morillo is an advocate for the social inclusion of people with autism. Full bio
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into an eye-contact coach.
アイコンタクトのコーチになりました
exists in images.
彼の言葉の世界が広がっているのです
when he was two and a half.
自閉症と診断されました
痛々しく思い出されます
分かりませんでした
できませんでした
or to anything we asked him,
反応しませんでした
なったかのようでした
教えろというのでしょう？
he would look at me,
彼は私を見てくれ
to working with him on those things,
イバンが好きなことに一緒に取り組み
eye-contact moments.
増やそうとしました
with his older sister, Alexia,
何時間も鬼ごっこをしたものです
私たちを見ます
I could feel he was alive.
彼が生きていると感じられました
in a swimming pool.
記録的な長さです
彼が２歳半のときのことです
連れて行くところでした
we'd go swimming.
泳ぎに行っていたのです
and I took the wrong exit.
間違えてしまいました
inconsolably, nonstop,
なだめようもなく 泣き続けました
that a two and a half year old
２歳半の子に
where I couldn't see anything,
正しい道が分かったのでしょうか？
had an exceptional visual memory,
イバンの類まれな視覚的記憶に気づき
と思ったのです
pictures of everything,
そうやって会話します
Ivan's eye contact that mattered.
それで良いわけではありません
not only his autism,
イバンの自閉症だけではなく
私たちの場合と同じように
to give of myself.
持たねばならなかったのです
in a neighborhood near our house.
while I was waiting for him,
私は彼を待つ間に
with a little bit of everything.
よくある地元のお店です
to walk down the street by himself,
ひとりで街を歩けるようになってほしいこと
if Thursdays around 2pm,
毎週木曜日の２時ごろに―
the water bottles on the shelves,
棚に水のボトルを並べるのを手伝っても良いかと
大好きなのです
some chocolate cookies,
イバンは大好物のチョコクッキーを
of water bottles
lined up on the same side,
向くように並べるのです
with his chocolate cookies.
喜んで帰るのでした
英雄的なことをする必要もありません
to look each other in the eye,
勇気を持ってください
切り開くことができるのです
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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