Carina Morillo: To understand autism, don't look away
Carina Morillo: အထီးကျန် စိတ်ဝေဒနာကို နားလည်ဖို့ မျက်နှာမလွှဲပါနဲ့။
Carina Morillo is an advocate for the social inclusion of people with autism. Full bio
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into an eye-contact coach.
ဆက်သွယ်တဲ့ နည်းပြဖြစ်စေခဲ့တယ်။
exists in images.
ရာ iPad ကနေ ဆက်သွယ်ပါတယ်။
when he was two and a half.
ကျွန်မ အမှတ်ရနေဆဲပါ။
ဆုံးရှုံးမှု ခံစားရတယ်၊
or to anything we asked him,
မတုံ့ပြန်ခဲ့ဘူးလေ။
he would look at me,
ကျွန်မကို သူက ကြည့်တော့
to working with him on those things,
ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကို ရည်စူးခဲ့တယ်။
eye-contact moments.
ကာလတွေ ပိုများများလာခဲ့တယ်။
with his older sister, Alexia,
ကျွန်မတို့ လိုက်တမ်းပြေးတမ်း ကစားခဲ့တယ်။
I could feel he was alive.
ကျွန်မခံစားလို့ရတယ်။
in a swimming pool.
ဆောင်းတွင်း တစ်နေ့မှာ
we'd go swimming.
ကျွန်မတို့က ရေကူးကန်သွားတာလေ။
and I took the wrong exit.
ထွက်ပေါက်မှားခဲ့တယ်။
inconsolably, nonstop,
ချော့မရအေင် မရပ်မနား ငိုတာ
that a two and a half year old
where I couldn't see anything,
မိုးနဲ့ မြူခိုးကြားမှာ
had an exceptional visual memory,
Ivan ဟာ သူမတူတဲ့ အမြင်ပိုင်းမှတ်ဉဏ်ရှိပြီး
pictures of everything,
Ivan's eye contact that mattered.
တင် အရေးပါတာ မဟုတ်ပါဘူး။
not only his autism,
လူတွေမြင်အောင်လုပ်တာမက၊
to give of myself.
စိတ်ရောကိုယ်ပါ မြှုပ်နှံဖို့လည်းလိုပါတယ်။
in a neighborhood near our house.
ကုသဖို့ သူသွားခဲ့တယ်။
while I was waiting for him,
သူ့ကို ကျွန်မစောင့်နေတုန်း
with a little bit of everything.
တကယ့် ရပ်ကွက်ဆိုင်ပါ။
to walk down the street by himself,
if Thursdays around 2pm,
Ivan လာပြီး စင်တွေပေါ်က ရေဘူးတွေ
the water bottles on the shelves,
Jose ကိုမေးဖို့ဆုံးဖြတ်တယ်
some chocolate cookies,
ပေးလို့ရတယ်၊
of water bottles
အံကိုက်တန်းပေးကာ
lined up on the same side,
with his chocolate cookies.
ပျော်ပျော်ထွက်လာတယ်။
ကျွမ်းကျင်သူ မဟုတ်ပါဘူး။
သူရဲကောင်းဆန်တာ တစ်ခုမှ မလုပ်ပါဘူး။
to look each other in the eye,
ကြည်ဖို့ သတ္တိရှိကြပါစို့၊
ကမ္ဘာတစ်ခုလုံးကို ဖွင့်ပေးနိုင်လို့ပါ။
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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