Carina Morillo: To understand autism, don't look away
卡莉娜·莫瑞罗: 了解自闭症，别避而不见
Carina Morillo is an advocate for the social inclusion of people with autism. Full bio
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into an eye-contact coach.
眼神交流方面的专家。
exists in images.
when he was two and a half.
or to anything we asked him,
任何我们问他的问题作出响应，
he would look at me,
他就会看着我，
to working with him on those things,
和他一起做这些活动，
眼神交流的机会。
eye-contact moments.
with his older sister, Alexia,
花好几个小时玩贴标签的游戏。
I could feel he was alive.
他是鲜活存在的。
in a swimming pool.
我们也会去游泳。
we'd go swimming.
and I took the wrong exit.
我开错了出口。
inconsolably, nonstop,
that a two and a half year old
where I couldn't see anything,
我什么都看不清的情况下，
伊万拥有的超常的视觉记忆力，
had an exceptional visual memory,
pictures of everything,
Ivan's eye contact that mattered.
眼神交流才值得被关注。
not only his autism,
不仅是他的自闭证，
to give of myself.
我也需要敞开自我，
in a neighborhood near our house.
while I was waiting for him,
当我正在等他的时候，
with a little bit of everything.
什么都有的小店。
to walk down the street by himself,
if Thursdays around 2pm,
能让伊万每周四下午两点左右
the water bottles on the shelves,
some chocolate cookies,
of water bottles
lined up on the same side,
带着他的巧克力曲奇离开。
with his chocolate cookies.
人们的任何英勇献身。
to look each other in the eye,
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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