Carina Morillo: To understand autism, don't look away
Carina Morillo: Để thấu hiểu chứng tự kỉ, hãy quan tâm!
Carina Morillo is an advocate for the social inclusion of people with autism. Full bio
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into an eye-contact coach.
một người rất giỏi giao tiếp bằng mắt.
exists in images.
được diễn tả bằng hình ảnh.
when he was two and a half.
khi mới hai tuổi rưỡi.
một ngày vô cùng đau đớn.
or to anything we asked him,
khi nghe tên mình hay trả lời bất cứ ai.
dạy Ivan về cuộc sống?
he would look at me,
cậu ta thích, cậu ta nhìn tôi,
to working with him on those things,
cùng cậu ấy làm những điều đó,
eye-contact moments.
bằng mắt nhiều hơn.
with his older sister, Alexia,
với chị gái của cậu ấy, Alexia,
I could feel he was alive.
con mình sống trở lại.
in a swimming pool.
để chơi ở hồ bơi.
với môn bơi lội.
we'd go swimming.
chúng tôi cũng sẽ đi bơi.
and I took the wrong exit.
trên đường cao tốc.
inconsolably, nonstop,
that a two and a half year old
where I couldn't see anything,
đến chính tôi còn chẳng nhận ra đường,
had an exceptional visual memory,
trí nhớ thị giác của Ivan rất phi thường.
pictures of everything,
của vạn vật xung quanh,
đó vẫn là cách Ivan giao tiếp
Ivan's eye contact that mattered.
có khả năng tốt về thị giác,
not only his autism,
không chỉ để ý tới chứng tự kỷ của Ivan,
yêu thích hoặc căm ghét,
to give of myself.
tôi phải cố gắng hết sức.
in a neighborhood near our house.
ở khu vực ngay gần nhà chúng tôi.
while I was waiting for him,
with a little bit of everything.
bán mỗi thứ một ít.
to walk down the street by himself,
học cách tự mình đi bộ xuống phố
if Thursdays around 2pm,
liệu vào hai giờ chiều mỗi thứ năm,
the water bottles on the shelves,
các chai nước trên kệ không,
và sắp xếp mọi thứ.
some chocolate cookies,
một vài chiếc bánh sô-cô-la không,
đã làm trong một năm:
of water bottles
lined up on the same side,
một cách hoàn hảo,
with his chocolate cookies.
với bánh sô-cô-la của mình.
chuyên gia về chứng tự kỷ.
sự gần gũi và thân thiết.
to look each other in the eye,
thấy cả thế giới trong ta.
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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