Activities to celebrate Autism Awareness Day

Published: 01 Apr 2022 Tagged: activitiesAutismautismawarenessmonthtipsworldautismawarenessday

The world will once again concentrate its attention on autism on April 2nd and the whole remaining month, with the goal of increasing awareness and advocating political reforms that improve the lives of those afflicted by autism or Asperger’s Syndrome across the world. You may also help in this struggle as a teacher, parent, carer or allied health professional by participating in many possible Autism Awareness Day activities.

Here are some great ideas to celebrate and support autism:

• Telling all of the students in the class to wear blue in April is a symbolic way of recognising Autism Awareness Month. The goal is to draw everyone's attention to the blue colour, which is the Autism Speaks organization's theme colour. They've been running a "Light it Up Blue" campaign, in which everyone is encouraged to wear blue to raise awareness of Autism.
• Sensory stimuli may cause more sensitiveness and receptiveness in children with autism. This is why they frequently become agitated or aroused by noises, fragrances, colours, movements, or other cues in the surroundings that other children ignore. With this in mind, specialists have created particular toys that stimulate the five senses of children with autism. Sensory mats, chewing toys, slimes or other fidget toys, vibrating cushions, and other sensory toys for autism are among the most popular.
• Autism may be introduced to young children for the first time. Not only that, but they may be unfamiliar with fundamental medical terms such as healthy, typical, optimal, unhealthy, untypical, or just different development. Which is understandable given how many people still have difficulty distinguishing between all of these words. As a result, with the aid of some beautifully written children's books on autism is the greatest method to teach a new subject while avoiding misunderstandings.

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All of us from Speakable wish our clients a happy Autism Awareness Day on April 2nd!