Raise Awareness of Autism Disorder
The "Autism We Unite" activities, organized by the Association of Autism Families in the Eastern Province in cooperation with the Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Center for Technical Sciences "Scitech", were concluded yesterday, with the participation of King Fahd Specialist Hospital in Dammam, with the aim of raising health, social and educational awareness of autism spectrum disorder, at the headquarters of "Scitech" in Al-Khobar. .
Dr. Yasser Al-Dabbagh, a mental health and adolescent consultant at King Fahd Specialist Hospital in Dammam, Executive Director of the Research Center at King Khalid Medical City, Dr. Yasser Al-Dabbagh, said that the first two years of a child’s life are as important as all years of life in terms of forming the brain infrastructure necessary for the emergence of skills, learning abilities, communication, and the formation of bonds and social relationships. Therefore, it was of paramount importance to educate parents about the need for a child diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder to receive therapeutic interventions at this early age. Where studies have proven that early therapeutic interventions have been able to raise the percentage of autistic people who are able to communicate with language, who received treatment, to nearly 90%, after it rarely reached 50% before those treatments.
Dr. Al-Dabbagh added that the hospital’s participation in the “Autism We Unite” event reinforced the importance of early intervention to detect early autism disorders in children with autism, by introducing them to the most important factors of potential injury and changes associated with autism disorders, ways to meet the needs of this category, guidance and family support, and ways Their support and available services, in order to overcome the difficulties and challenges that result from having it, in addition to helping the family to be more positive, to build interactive relationships with the autistic child.
