A workshop on Autism Spectrum Disorder and ABA intervention was organised at the KIMS here on Wednesday in the presence of more than 100 schoolchildren, parents, doctors and rehabilitation professionals.
Early diagnosis of autism plays an important step in rehabilitation process of child. Evidence based therapies such as Applied Behaviour Analysis(ABA) have shown excellent results in children. However, in India, ABA therapy is expensive.
Focusing on child development as a holistic goal, affordable remote ABA services executed by non-experts will revolutionise therapy for autism children, said the speakers. Dr Joshua K Pritchand, Manu Kohli, Founder cogniAble and Dr Debasish Panigrahi, MD Paediatrics, spoke on different aspects of autism.
