The Autism: A World between Lights and Shadows
2019-11-10 11:21:34 / web@radiorebelde.icrt.cu / Translated by: JC Caballero
Having a childhood featured by not smiling or answering their mother´s voice, the U.S. Donald Grey Tripplett was then seen as weird child in the first half of the 20th century. He was the son of a lawyer and a teacher from Forsest Mississippi.
Tripplet did not show any interest in playing and used his language in a really unusual wa, besides, he did not make eye contact or human contact.
Hospitalized for a year in a mental health institution of that time, Tripplet did not show changes at all before the related treatments. His parents attended the Johns Hopkins Hospital from Baltimore, Maryland in 1938. It was there where that child´s indifferent behavior attracted the Austrian psychiatrist of Jewish origin, Leo Kanner.
Having similar symptoms to the schizophrenia, Donald Grey Tripplet´s behavior was difficult to classify by Doctor Leo Kanne, taking into account that child was already showing his capacities as a good memory sequence as well as the skill to sing songs he´d listened to them, once only.
Some time later in 1943, Leo Kanner seemed to have found a scientific denomination through a research entitled´Autistic-affectionate contact disorders´ that psychiatrist described Tripplet and other children´s behavior.
Known as the first case diagnosed with the abovementioned disorder in the world, Donald Grey Tripplet , aged 86 years old at present time, achieved to surpass some of his autism´s limitations.
In 1958, Leo Kanner obtained a degree in French Philology at the Millsaps College in Jackson, Missisipi.
When Donald Grey´s behavior was regarded as weird in halfway through the 21ST century, thousands of children get a current diagnose in the world in which the related causes are often unknown.
It is from that date thus far is celebrated the World Awareness on Autism Day on each April 2nd.
In Cuba, there are some educational institutions in Cuba aimed at helping boys and girls who suffer from the autistic spectrum disorder described by the U.S. specialist Donald Grey Triplett. It is in Guanabacoa municipality where the Enrique Galarraga Rodríguez Special Needs School is located and it has teachers and specialists who are focused on one mission only: connecting each of its students with the society.
Made up of six classrooms, a speech therapy department and another psychotherapy one, the educational center tries to provide related tools to each of the autistic boys and girls to be able to express their desires and sensations in any situation of their daily life.
Along with the particularity about being a transit educational center, the Enrique Galarraga Rodríguez Special Needs school works for autistic children from ages ranges from 7 to 18 years of age, who come from seven municipalities of Havana city.
Along with a registration number of 25 students, the school institution uses the local TEACH learning method (Treatment and Education Autistic Children with Associated Communication Disorders) as the core of the educational process.
Having a mirror in each classroom to help the self-recognition action in each of the students, the abovementioned school includes the autistic spectrum disorder.
The difficult or the absence of the oral language, the indifference to eye contact, the wandering behavior, the apparently deafness and walking on the tips of their feet, the words repetition, the incapacity to identify other people´s feelings and their inconvenience before the slightest change around them are some of the related symptoms in autistic children of that Cuban educational center.
Understood as a neurological and biological disorder of the human growing stage, the autism appears in the first years of life. Its diagnosis causes suffering to the family of children; hence, the related specialists of the Cuban school offer advice and talks for the students´ parents so that they can understand their children´s behavior.
When the autism´s shade is part of the entire life of those ones who suffer it, the teachers and specialists of the abovementioned centers work each single day to give light to the very reserved world of the autistic boys and girls.
By Mirtha Guerra Moré
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