MANIFESTO APRIL 2 TEAD A voice purporting to be unique, seems to scream as if for the first time: More cognitive-behavioral treatments for our children! Some associations of parents of children with autism in Spain have come together to identify the problems of their children and have been silenced, after your claim, the inevitable anxiety that accompanies the parental role.
Call on all Coast to educate their children in regular school - like the other - school reinforcement behavior training, treatment reeducation in non-school hours, and comprehensive exercises at home for the child to learn to look, laugh, feel pain and say no head. And while we ask, expect a lot more scientific evidence that serious science can offer today.
But are not all they have to be. Other voices, much quieter so far, today to open up a debate that asks faithful to its complexity. Many parents, each from their individuality, often resistant to the identification of the group have taken over from the beginning of the difficulties of their children, because they stopped looking too soon, because I did not laugh or react to stimuli in adults, it seemed he would not talk or because never to speak only mechanically repeat the phrases heard. Many parents, faced with the reality of a child that was not what they imagined, we passed the test protocol, try to find a suitable school for them, we find centers where we blamed our son's treatment ... and we had to hear promises of imminent discovery of an organic cause. Some even stop working to comply with this.
Parents of TEAD not want to add to our distress that causes us to have to become teachers or coaches demanding our children. We do not want to feel guilty of little progress that our children can make eyes external evaluators who see their subjectivity a mark on a test box.
We have learned that our children have some particular behaviors that respond to their suffering and their fragile beings in the world. We do not think that this could be removed as he removes a tumor evil, because they think these behaviors belong to an organism but a guy who only found this out the pain to exist. To change, should it agree to change them, we consented, though the road to get to have more curves. We believe in it, he TEAD has something to say.
Today, April 2, 2010, International Day of Autism, we became associations to defend what we found in this way: the encounter with psychoanalysis as a possible treatment of autism in our children and, eventually, of our anguish and guilt inherent in our position as parents.
The so-called Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), the autism and Asperger syndrome, it is investigated and treated in psychoanalytic decades in our country. No stretch to our children on the couch in public schools where they attend oriented psychologists in psychoanalysis or in special schools or day centers where often they attend school. Nor do any of the various professionals who work there never has autism blaming our children; On the contrary, we welcome and treat them from their uniqueness. Because, we must bear in mind that their fragility is based on the strength of their defense and protection radicals before the world around them. Should not also address the protection of children from this other protection?
In our country, parents of normal children have the constitutional right that allows them to choose the school guidance and teaching they want for their children. Parents of children with ASD do not want to lose this right guaranteed by our constitution. We want to respect the plurality of clinical treatment and teaching currently exist and that we know are effective, we want to design the overall care from outpatient treatment, from day care centers that include specific education in its different stages, from opportunities for free time in vacation periods, and from the possibility of stay in residential and hospital admissions for severe cases, and we also want to implement these services can also be done from the clinical psychoanalytic training of various professionals involved there.
We went to the civil society, we turn to politicians to call for respect our rights as parents and the rights of our children, who feel threatened at this time on behalf of an alleged scientific evidence that too often hides strong economic interests. We want politicians and leaders lead a complex debate, various voices, to be considered in the approaches plurality of autism within the fundamental right of every citizen to compare and choose the treatment they deem most appropriate for your child. Trust, respect and admire the wise and humble science has improved our living conditions, but do not want our children to be the subject of marketing. We know that having a child with ASD is a source of anguish and parents understand and trust associated in other orientations than those we choose, we do not want is that we are denying us our democratic and constitutional right to do so.
TEAD
peer Association, seas of people i familiars amb l'Autism Spectrum Disorder (Autism Syndrome d'Asperger i)
associacioteadir@gmail.com
