My oldest nephew Jaheim is 11 years old, he was diagnosed with autism when he was 3 years old. His mom , my sister did not want to believe it at all. It took her years to finally accept it and so did the rest of our family. But watching Jaheim grow up was pretty hard and fun at the same time. He cannot talk , he will make noises similar to words but they are not clear words that you and I would say. He says little things here and there but its kind of hard sometimes to know what he wants because he will have a rough time trying to explain what he wants. But of course in today’s world technology is growing more and more so the school he attends got him an iPad that is specialized to speak for him. All he has to do is tap on each picture in the word bank and it’ll say sentences for him, which i think is pretty amazing. that’s why i feel as though communications is a very important field to be in , we relay messages to everyone in the world even people with special needs and or disabilities. Music and radio is something my nephew enjoys he will listen to every genre of music and he will know who sings the song and what the album is called. For someone who cannot talk he is such a great speller, he knows how to spell a lot of things being as his brain is still at a baby stage. His brain does not match up with his age at all but the things he is capable of doing is beyond amazing. I plan to take him to music therapy where he can play the drums, which is his favorite and let out built up anger he has from not being able to communicate with others how he wants to.
So if you know someone with Autism or special needs you can reach out to them (communicate) and show them things that you like and or do things with them that they like. That’s all they want people to communicate with them because sometimes they don’t know how to do it.
Here’s a picture of my nephew and I (:
