The 3rd BMI international
autism conference got underway at the Hitex convention centre in the city from
today. The two day conference is
organised by the Behaviour Momentum India Foundation in association with the
Telangana Government and the National Institute for the empowerment of persons
with intellectual disabilities.
The
inaugural function was attended by Secretary government of India, department of
empowerment of persons with disabilities Ms Shakuntala Gamlin, Principal
Secretary Municipal Administration Arvind Kumar, Principal Secretary Women and
Child Welfare M Jagadeeshwar, Ms Anuradha Dalmia Director National Institute
for the empowerment of persons with intellectual disabilities and trustees of
BMI foundation Manoj Sharma, Dr Smitha Awasthi and Sridhar.
Speaking
on the occasion, Ms Shakuntla Gamlin felt that though autism is an extremely
complex neurological disorder, the treatment should be looked not in medical
model but in the social model with the family members being involved more in
the curative process. She said the
participation of renowned experts from the paediatricians, pediatric
neurologists, developmental paediatricians, psychiatrists, behaviour analysts,
speech pathologists and occupational therapists would help in creating a
platform for the dissemination of reliable evidence based information for all
parents and professionals. Mr Arvind
Kumar observed that very little is known to the parents about the early
symptoms relating to Autism spectrum disorder in the children. He hoped that the conference would help the
governments come up with a strategy to
firm up policies both at the state as well as national level.
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