Carina Morillo: To understand autism, don't look away
Carina Morillo: Otizmi anlamak için bakışlarınızı kaçırmayın
Carina Morillo is an advocate for the social inclusion of people with autism. Full bio
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into an eye-contact coach.
koçuna dönüştürdü.
konuşmuyor ve
yer aldığı
exists in images.
teşhis konuldu.
when he was two and a half.
or to anything we asked him,
tek yolu
he would look at me,
daha fazla olsun diye
to working with him on those things,
üzerinde yoğunlaşmaya adadım.
eye-contact moments.
yakalamaca oynayarak
with his older sister, Alexia,
ve "Seni yakaladım!" dediğimizde,
I could feel he was alive.
olduğunu hissedebiliyordum.
saatleri not ediyoruz.
in a swimming pool.
we'd go swimming.
yüzmeye gidiyorduk.
and I took the wrong exit.
inconsolably, nonstop,
ağlamaya başladı.
that a two and a half year old
yağmurun ve sisin ortasında
where I couldn't see anything,
olabiliyordu?
bir görsel zekaya sahip olduğunu
had an exceptional visual memory,
yol olacaktı.
pictures of everything,
öğretmeye başladım.
ne hissettiğine dair
kurmak değildi.
Ivan's eye contact that mattered.
not only his autism,
tıpkı her birimiz gibi
yapabilen,
nasıl sağlayabilirdim?
to give of myself.
vermek zorundaydım.
sahip olmalıydım,
in a neighborhood near our house.
için gidiyordu.
while I was waiting for him,
with a little bit of everything.
başladım.
tek başına sokakta yürümeyi
to walk down the street by himself,
Ivan'ın
if Thursdays around 2pm,
raflardaki su şişelerini düzenlemede
the water bottles on the shelves,
rica etmeye karar verdim.
bayılıyordu.
some chocolate cookies,
of water bottles
lined up on the same side,
şekilde dizer,
with his chocolate cookies.
bir şey yapmaya gerek yok.
sormalıyız.
umursamaz değil,
to look each other in the eye,
cesareti gösterelim,
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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