A 10-day training workshop on autism started in Dhaka on Saturday with a view to develop skills of people working with special kids.
Psychologists, teachers of special schools as well as general schools, child specialists, social workers, medical professionals, medical students, therapists and parents of the autistic children will attend the workshop in separate sessions at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, said a media release.
Autism is a developmental disorder that appears in the first three years of life and affects brain's normal development of social and communication skills.
Experts say those children cannot pick up self-care tasks – dressing, self-feeding, using toilet and others – by watching and imitating. They do not make eye-to-eye contact and have single-track thought process, but they have 'hidden' talents like paintings and music.
As autism is a specialised issue, Vice-chancellor Prof Pran Gopal Datta said training needed to better understand and diagnose autism.
At least 350 participants will attend the training conducted by global autism experts.
"It's (offering training) a continuous process at the university," the vice-chancellor said.
Dhaka University's Department of Education and Counseling Psychology was assisting the medical university for the training, the release added.
Estimates suggest every 8 in 1000 children are autistic in Bangladesh. It is 1 in 88 children in the US.
Psychologists, teachers of special schools as well as general schools, child specialists, social workers, medical professionals, medical students, therapists and parents of the autistic children will attend the workshop in separate sessions at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, said a media release.
Autism is a developmental disorder that appears in the first three years of life and affects brain's normal development of social and communication skills.
Experts say those children cannot pick up self-care tasks – dressing, self-feeding, using toilet and others – by watching and imitating. They do not make eye-to-eye contact and have single-track thought process, but they have 'hidden' talents like paintings and music.
As autism is a specialised issue, Vice-chancellor Prof Pran Gopal Datta said training needed to better understand and diagnose autism.
At least 350 participants will attend the training conducted by global autism experts.
"It's (offering training) a continuous process at the university," the vice-chancellor said.
Dhaka University's Department of Education and Counseling Psychology was assisting the medical university for the training, the release added.
Estimates suggest every 8 in 1000 children are autistic in Bangladesh. It is 1 in 88 children in the US.
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