More special schools can create awareness among parents and help in
social acceptance of children with neurological disorders, Minister of
State for Human Resource Development Shashi Tharoor said here Friday.
Tharoor said that a new centre for excellence for autism would be opened shortly by an NGO in the Gurgaon.
The NGO, Special Child Trust, will open the centre in alliance with New
England Centre for Children (NECC), a non-profit autism research and
education centre.
"Autism is the fastest growing developmental disability across the world
and early intervention can play a pivotal role in the absorption of
people with autism in the mainstream," Tharoor said.
"We will open the centre by October. Initially, it will cater to
children aged between three to 12. We will have three classrooms with 24
children in each. The centre for autism kids will be extended in a
phased manner," said Sameer Nayar, co-founder of the Special Child
Trust.
The new centre for autism will have Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA),
which is an analytical, research-based, data driven tool for
intervention for children on the autism spectrum.
There has been a staggering six-fold increase in autism cases in India, from 20 lakh in 2003 to 1.36 crore at present.
Source : Business Standard , 3rd May 2013
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