Older autistic patients get no attention. If parents are old, where are they going?
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some self Patients with closed disease can not take care of themselves and need people to take care of them. Reporter Guo Yao photo
22, Wang Peng (a pseudonym) was moved by his parents again. Wearing a pair of trousers and leather shoes, he looks like an adult at 23, but he can only learn to babble. His IQ is less than 3 years old. Parents who are over 50 years old also shoulder the responsibility of guardians. In Ji'nan, there are many adults with autism like Wang Peng, and adults with autism often don't get enough attention to.Amp compared to children with autism; hellip.amp; hellip
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though Wang Peng is 23 years old, but the father's flying (the pseudonym) is still used to calling his name. . Standing at the head of a big boy weighing nearly 1.8 meters and weighing 220 Jin, Wang Fei, 51 years old, appeared to be very thin. My son is getting bigger and bigger. When he was young, he lost his temper and could get him.
when Wang Peng was 5 years old, his family found that he did not talk to others, so he took him to Beijing to see a doctor and was diagnosed with autism. Since then, Wang Fei and his wife have carried out rehabilitation training with their sons in Beijing and Ji'nan. When he recovered to the age of 11, Wang Fei found it hard to find his son's institution for autism rehabilitation training. Most institutions target autistic people under 6 years of age. Later, I wanted to send my son to a special education school, but he could not afford it because he was hyperactive and violent. Wang Fei said. So, from the teens, Wang Peng stayed at home and was fully cared for by Wang Fei and his wife. In the past few years, Wang Peng's behavior has been regressing. Wang Fei said that when he was a child, Wang Peng felt that he had to do what he did before he did things, and he did not let him do what he did now. He lost his temper without reason and broke his home. Because of his neighbor's complaints, Wang Fei has moved his family many times so far.
when he was little, we still had a glimmer of hope, but now it's a feeling of hope. Over the years, my mother and I have been sick. He was angry and might have slapped us in the face. But he is a child and sick, what can we say? Now we do not want to let children return to society, as long as we can spend a day safely. Wang Fei said.
the recovery of adult autism fell into an accidental opportunity for
, and Wang Fei came into contact with the Ji'nan Yitai mentally retarded service center, the only institution in the city to accommodate adults with autism. Zhan Yuzhi is the director of the center. Since the establishment of the institution in 2007, she can not remember how many friends persuaded her to give up the job.
Zhan Yuzhi told reporters that over 18 years of age is considered adult autism. Different from the early intervention of children, adult autistic patients have come to this age, but they have begun to have their own needs, including physiological needs, survival needs, social needs and so on. Their inner desire is accepted and longed to be treated like ordinary people. But because there is no special rehabilitation institution, family members do not understand their needs, so they are often not satisfied, so their behavior becomes more and more extreme.
according to Zhan Yuzhi, parents and even the whole society are now paying much attention to the early intervention of children with autism, but the rehabilitation intervention of adult patients is basically in blank. At present, there are about dozens of autistic and mentally retarded training institutions in the province, but few institutions are engaged in rehabilitation training for adults with autism. Zhan Yuzhi said adult autistic patients are prone to hyperactivity and violence, so they can not enter special education schools. This makes many adult autistic patients fall into rehabilitation.
is not valued because many parents have hope in children, but as the children are getting older and less effective, many parents break the jar, which reduces the market demand for the recovery of adult autistic patients to some extent.
parents mistaken ideas to delay children's treatment
to fight Yu Zhi, the biggest problem in adult autism rehabilitation is parents.
Zhan Yuzhi told reporters that in the early stage of intervention, parents often take their children all over the country, waiting for teenagers and adults, both financially and mentally, almost to the state of overdraft, unable to endure long-term mental suffering, gradually losing hope and training for children. There are less and less attention to practice. Like our center of autism, 7 children are single parent families, parents have died early, the family has such children, parents are hard labor. The parents of 3 children were suffering from melancholia. Many parents can not accept the reality of children's mental retardation or autism for a long time. Therefore, much of our work can be said to be a parent's work. Zhan Yuzhi said.
in addition, some parents' misconceptions also delayed the treatment of their children. The parents of the autistic patient often take two extremes: one is extremely doting, and the child is so unfortunate that he can't make him suffer any more. Zhan Yuzhi told reporters that the bigger the child, the more parents would shut them up at home. This will hurt the children.
these children are also eager to communicate with the world, eager to be understood and accepted. Zhan Yuzhi said that with the growth of their age, these children are gradually moving towards the society, but many times, social feedback is biased and discriminated against them.
can the related links build a life-long public service system?
it is understood that related folk organizations have begun to explore adult life life-long service models for adults with autism. At present, in Hongkong, the government provides free support and life-long support for the elderly with autism.
what support policies and safeguards should be given to autistic patients? A researcher who does not want to be named suggests that it is recommended to use foreign experience to make demographic statistics on people with autism in Ji'nan and to establish a system of government public service covering the end of autistic patients from the institutional level. The government should provide effective guarantee for the survival and pension of the parents who have been born, to meet the different needs of each stage from birth to the end of the old age, including early diagnosis and intervention, rehabilitation training, educational placement, and old age maintenance.