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World Autism Awareness Day: 12 April 2022 - Department of Psychology, Postgraduate Centre
To commemorate World Autism Awareness Day, Department of Psychology, Postgraduate Centre
conducted an awareness session on Autism for the postgraduate students of the department on
12th April 2022. International Day of Autism is celebrated worldwide on 2 April every year to spread
awareness and reduce stigma towards people diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The
activity began with a discussion on Autism to understand the already imparted knowledge among
the student group regarding the concept. A quiz on AUTISM was prepared on Google forms and was
shared among the students as an icebreaker of the session. After the quiz, Prof. Dakshina enquired
on how well the students could work with it and most of the students explained that they had only
partly sufficient knowledge as far as the topic is concerned, which was the motive of the activity
conducted.
Prof. Dakshina took over a very detailed session making use of a PowerPoint presentation which
included introductory explanation about autism and its characteristics. This was followed by a
discussion where students were asked about the symptoms of Autism to be noticed. The speaker
then went on to speak about the symptomatology in detail which was followed by the treatment
methods in Autism. Prof. Dakshina also spoke about the various screening and diagnostic tools
available for screening autism. The students were observed to be keenly listening and actively
involving in discussions throughout. The session ended with a video portraying the concept of
Autism through animation.
The session was conducted with the aim of imparting knowledge and awareness among students
about Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders. People all over the world still holds a lot of stigmas
towards people who are differentially abled. The session was an eye opener for the newly joined
postgraduate students to understand more about ASD. s
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