Hello, I'm Shelley
Quinn welcome again to Issues
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and Answers. I'm very
excited because we have
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two special guests that
are returning to us today
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and that is Esther Castillo,
welcome back, thank you.
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And Pedro Acevedo
and Pedro, I'm so excited
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that you are back, I
promised you that this time
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we girls are gonna give
you an opportunity to speak.
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Now, I would like to share
with you a scripture that is
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Pedro's favorite, and
that is II Timothy 1:7,
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For God did not give us
a spirit of fear but he has
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given us a spirit of
power and love and sound mind,
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or as my translation
says of self discipline
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is what it says. So we
are going to be talking today
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about Autism and this is
our second program on Autism.
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If you are not familiar with
it, you learn little bit more
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today but you'll also
learn that I don't know
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if we want to say there
is a way out. But there is a
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way up, Amen. A way
that is a better way
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to deal with children
and adults who have Autism,
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and there is hope.
God always fills us hope,
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doesn't He? Amen,
Amen. Esther let's once again
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let's just establish as
we did in our last program.
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What is Autism? Autism is
a developmental disability
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that impacts three
areas of a person's body.
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There is a delay in language,
delayed, yes that's one of
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the behaviors
that they demonstrated.
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There is a delay in
language, there is a deficiency
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in social interaction and
also they will see a repetitive
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and odd behavior,
okay. I would add to that,
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that not only you see
that the child stop talking
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like in Pedro's case
voice was gone, but also when
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they speak, it kind of
doesn't make any sense what
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they are saying, they do
know what they're saying,
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but for you just need to
get used to know that they
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speak in key languages.
Also it does affect the
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way, all of the five
senses, alright. In some,
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some of them when they
are looking at your eyes,
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they could see
their blood vessels,
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so they just turn
their eyes some place else
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and they won't give
you that eye contact,
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because they are
seeing more than what a normal
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people see. They hear
more and when I say they
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hear more, they feel
like a nail is stabbing inside
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of their ears and it's
really painful when they hear
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they pitch of your voice,
even if you are whistling,
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the sound of a 18
wheeler, a vacuum cleaner and
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an blender, an airplane that
is sounding so. It's really,
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really painful what
comes through their ears,
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what comes through
their eyes, what comes through
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their skin. There are
some materials that could
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just make them feel
like taking them away because
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they feel like electric, like
shocks, so until you address
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every piece of that body
that used to be so beautiful,
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but now is reacting completely
weird, they won't feel
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at ease and quiet and
get to the stage that Pedro
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is at today. But there
was, you did take Pedro,
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Pedro was diagnosed,
while he first began at the age
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of 18 months after
having a very high fever,
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bad ear infection, he
lost his ability to communicate
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but he wasn't actually
diagnosed until 4-years-old,
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so but you did take
him through therapy that
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improved his
communication skills,
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because we are gonna
be discussing today how
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Pedro is in college
and doing very well.
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You've improved his
social interaction skills,
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because you been just
absolutely delightful Pedro.
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And you have these
various therapies have helped
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him so much, but let me
ask you as a mother what
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is the most painful aspect
of having a child with Autism?
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The ignorance of
people who may mean well,
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but still hurt them, every
door that is closed to them,
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to see when the siblings
like in my daughter's case
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is told, don't bring
your little brother to the
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neighborhood to play, because
he is cuckoo, he's weird,
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we don't want to play
with him, we can play with
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you but not with him.
When a teacher say like he
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was told, you know,
we were told he does not
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belong in here. When
you are like Mary and Joseph
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knocking doors, yes, and
everybody is telling you,
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your child does not
belong here, sorry but you need
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to take him some
place else, it really hurts,
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you know, every, of
course it does, every human
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that slam the door on
your face and forget that
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your child is a human
too; it hurts you more than
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if you are the one
who is being stabbed, you
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feel like a part of
you as well and because you
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don't have that ignorance
because you have educated
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on this you actually
after Pedro was diagnosed and
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then growing up and
you've gone back to school,
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got your bachelors and
your masters in behavior
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science and education.
You knew that children with
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Autism even though they
may not be able to communicate
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with you, their understanding
everything that's been
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said, so they understand
when people are making fun
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of them or making
derogatory remarks to them.
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So that had to be very
painful for you because
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you knew your
child was being hurt,
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being crushed in spirit
when they heard these things.
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Now tell us just a little
bit before we get into the
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resources that you
tapped into, give us a little
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fast-forward, just how as
he went through these various
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therapies and Pedro
when did he start talking
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again? Well, I would
say that I wish I could have
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written a diary and a
journal, yes, from those words,
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I remember that one of
the first time that Pedro say
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his first sentence
was when we took his daddy
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for the ozone treatment,
I told you before what was
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his condition. Now your
husband, four days before
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you learned the diagnosis
that Pedro was autistic
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your husband also
received a very heavy blow
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in a diagnosis of being
HIV positive. He'd been married
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eight years; he
actually learned he had been HIV
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positive three years
before your marriage.
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He had because of your
daughter's heart condition
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when she was born
become an alcoholic but when he
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learned of this diagnosis,
for, in fact he only had
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six months to live, there
was a major change in your
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husband and he came to
be a more loving man and
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being more
present in the family.
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He lived another seven
years, okay that's gone.
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My husband went to a
place for alternative medication
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and there they
practiced the ozone therapy
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they went injecting on
his blood ozone and Pedro
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and my daughter and we
all wanted to go through
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the same therapy just
to encourage my husband
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to keep himself alive
and let him know that we were
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all united as a
family to keep in our life.
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As a result of the first
treatment with ozone we took
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Pedro that was in my
country, that you are saying
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ozone, OZONE, ozone okay, yes.
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And we all went to the
capital of my country after
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the first treatment and
Pedro heard a boy crying
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and we are just
looking at Pedro and suddenly
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Pedro says the baby is
crying, so it was the first
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time since he was 18-months-old
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that he came up with
the four words sentence.
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How old was he
there? He was four, okay,
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four years old, okay so we
were really in shock looking
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at him coming up,
Pedro were you four,
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when we went to
there in 1993? 91, 91,
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okay and how old
were you Pedro? Four,
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four yes he was four. And
when he said that the baby
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is crying were, we
felt, there is no words to
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explain when a child
without voice for so many years
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finally came up
with his first sentence.
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Then after that we came
to the United States and we
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tried different type
therapies to get Pedro speaking
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in a way that could make
sense, so not only we were
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trying to pull those words
out with speech and language
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therapy but we
also use music therapy.
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Through music we were
trying to pull Pedro out
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of the world where he
was and what I did is,
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I didn't have any money
to pay a music therapy and
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an art therapy. I used
to go to closest university
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and as for people who
wanted to do their internship
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with my son. Praise God,
so I used to bring my students
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for them to practice and
then they were gonna go come to
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my house and through
music I remember I have
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those videos where the
girl is telling hello Pedro,
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hi, hi, hi playing with
the guitar and then Pedro was
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going to sing
hello Debby hi, hi, hi.
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And that was the way
through music, through pictures,
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through art that
Pedro started to communicate
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himself how was his day at
school and today many of his
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arts has been in
museums and in galleries,
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I have most of
the originals at home.
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Now he doesn't draw
too much, because the more
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they speak the least they
paints and draw but he used,
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he used art to kind of
to let us know his feelings
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what he was going through
and at his daddy's funeral
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we have beautiful
painting that he calling Daddy's
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wake. Since he couldn't
speak he spend the whole
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wake drawing picture
of his Daddy under coffin,
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drawing picture of
people with tears and his art
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therapist was telling
him Daddy is in heaven,
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so he draw a picture of
his daddy like in a cloud,
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with angel wings, big
mustache and then there ticked,
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Daddy is inside of a
cloud but then he also draw
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the picture of the coffin
like how can he be in heaven
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and I'm seeing
myself my Daddy here.
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So it was through art, so
we know it by the way I just
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want to insert this that
the art therapist was uninformed
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as to the fact that we
rest in our graves until
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Jesus returns, so she
was probably confusing,
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confusing him, yes, okay.
And it was through art therapy
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that helping a lot when
he came to communication
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because now he was able to
say not only yes which was,
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Pedro are you okay,
yes, do you want to die, yes,
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are you ugly, yes,
did you kill him, yes.
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He had no concept
what the word no meant.
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It took a whole process
from babbling to first word to
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second words and by the
time he was 13 in a middle
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school through an
inclusion program.
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He heard all the students
his age talking to him and
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he wanted to imitate
them and that was when really
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started increasing his
communication skill, wonderful
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13-years-old. Pedro,
how old were you when your
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father died? Nine,
9-years old, that must have been
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so difficult for you having
to see that what have made
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Dina your daughter
about what, 12, 12-years-old
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and he was 9, at what
point did you go back to school?
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I went back to
school, I would say,
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how old was Pedro? It
was in 1996 that I decided
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to go back to school,
how old were you Pedro,
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nine, he was, 1996 it like
one year before my, no, 1992.
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One year after we got
Pedro's diagnosis I convinced
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my husband to let
me go back to school,
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okay that's wonderful.
And my husband was translating
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for me most of my work
because English was his
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primary language so
I encourage him okay,
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1991 you were diagnosed
that you are going to die,
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but you could make
it up, you could do it.
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And you and I are
going to graduate together;
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we need to learn
more about Pedro, Amen.
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So my husband felt, saw
this functional as he grew up,
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he says do you believe
that I can go to school
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and make it? And we
went all the way up to the
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masters degree same
university, same school
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and he was helping me,
my thesis was edited by him,
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praise the Lord. So he
was you know if it wasn't
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because, I don't
know if I told you before
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he was kidnapped
after having a healthy body
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he was kidnapped by
the same person who gave
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in the ozone treatment
the person became so mentally
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ill and begged my husband
to come and help in my country
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and he didn't allow my
husband to eat for two months,
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oh mercy. So my
husband got cancer on his liver
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and when I brought him
back he was given four weeks
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to live. But he
lived those seven years,
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the social security
company told him you don't need
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our services
anymore, you are healed,
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praise God and he was
just singing with us and
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praising the Lord, attending
church there in my country.
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And it was really encouraging;
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because he was
gonna get the month,
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we were going to graduate
together but I went down
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without him. Yeah, he
died just a few days before,
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he died on January 1st
and I graduated in June,
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in June just a
few months before,
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now let's get back to
then the Autism because
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there are different
levels of Autism as far as the
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functions, there is
some that are more highlight
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functional than others
but it appeared you had people
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telling you, your child
would never speak again and
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yet you trusted in
the Lord you were very
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proactive in treatment
and what are some of the
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resources I know that
you were telling me a most
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astounding statistic.
One out of every 150 families
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are hearing the diagnosis
today that your child is
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autistic. So this is
becoming a national epidemic
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I know in United
States, I am not sure I've heard
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it other countries it is
as well. And it's becoming
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as prevalent as
diabetes and anything else
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and yet it's not,
hasn't always got the attention
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that it needed before but
this year has been declared
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the year of Autism they
set aside what date for that?
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April 2nd, April the 2nd.
Tell us some of the resources
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that are available?
Well, the world is so blessed
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because when I was
given the diagnosis to my son
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there was almost
nothing there and I think I told
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you before how he used
to come. He used to come
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to my house with
scratches on his face and on his
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chest because teachers
do nothing about sensor
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integration
therapy. Today not only,
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so this happened while they
were trying to restrain him,
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yes because they
thought that all they could see
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it was behavior. In
the past twenty years ago
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any child who was throwing
the temper tantrum whole
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day so was behavior.
And still today many people
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believe in applied
behavior and analysis which
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is one of the resources
and programs that are there
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but to me the multi
sensory approach is the best
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one because it
addressed every need.
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But there are two big
entities in the United States
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and one of them is the
Autism Society of America
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in which I have
been a member since 1994
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and if anybody
wants to contact them,
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or they have to those
who go into the web page
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which is www.autism-society.org.
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Okay let me repeat that, that's
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www.autism-society.org,
www.autism-society.org
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and then the second
one is autismspeaks.org,
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okay so that's
www.autismspeaks.org,
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www.autismspeaks.org.
alright, now what kind
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some things will you
find at this? Because,
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I know you brought some
information, yes. Let's get
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into that because
you've brought some information
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and did you get these
tips, from this these web
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pages, yes. When you
become of the Autism society
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of America, they send
you like a survival kit okay
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and I found this awesome,
because this is a status
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for your card, yes
for the card, alright.
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And it says three things
you can do today to protect
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a person with
Autism and the message here
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it says in case of
emergency occupant with Autism
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may run away not
respond, resist help.
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Alright, so you are
putting this on the windshield
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of the car so that you
can alert police or ambulance
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or any personnel that
maybe kind of responding
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to an accident
or a tragic event,
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yes and letting them
know these are the behaviors
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that they might expect
from the occupant of this car.
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You said they might
run away, resist help,
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there are some other
things too, yes not respond,
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not respond, even if
they call them and the reason
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why we have this is
because many people have
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been killed out of
ignorance of the emergency
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responders. So in other
words a policeman is speaking
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did not realizing, this
is a person with Autism they
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are telling them to
halt, this person's running or
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they're acting you
know, acting now becoming
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aggressive just because
they are afraid and then they
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found the need of using
the electric shot or shooting
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them and we've
been losing teenagers,
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and we've been losing
adults because the emergency
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responders have no
clue how to restrained them,
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there was another
training that I took, I'm
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an international
instructor in non-violent crisis
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prevention intervention,
okay. This is also something
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that comes with the kit and
its says children and adults
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with Autism may not
understand what you say,
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appear deaf, be unable
to speak or to speak with
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difficulty like in Pedro's
case may appear insensitive
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to pain, may dart
away from you unexpectedly,
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may wonder anywhere
at any time and wanderers
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like it happened to
Pedro, they are often attracted
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to water sources such
as pools, ponds and lakes
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and drowning is the
leading cause of death
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for a person
with Autism, oh mercy.
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So it says they may become
upset for no apparent reason,
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so I will suggest that
anybody who has a person
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with Autism in the
family, don't ever, ever,
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ever argue with them.
With the girls there are
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extremely hyper, but
with the boys which have been
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probably one in four is a
boy. They are more subtle,
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but please do not get
them to a point that they may
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attack you. Because they
get kind of blind and it's
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an overpower that takes
their body and they may hurt
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you even though they
didn't mean to do that, okay.
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They, they, when you
frown your face they feel like
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you are howling to
them or screaming to them
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and when you scream they
feel like everything is falling
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under head. Especially if
they have the acuity those
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sensory acuities that
it's so much louder than what
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you and I would actually
incur or how it affects us.
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Now so we have these, we'll
repeat this in just a moment
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so that people can get
this and I would like to your
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email address is,
ecastillo@hotmail.com right,
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e for Esther
castillo at hotmail.com,
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in case somebody
wants to get touch with you,
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oh ecastillo1816
let me repeat that.
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Ecastillo1816@hotmail.com
if you want to get in touch
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with Esther because
she's been down this road.
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Tell us, we're sitting
here with his fascinating
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trophy here, the statue
and what was this reward
00:21:14.62\00:21:19.73
given to Pedro, how he
started making grade advances;
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you've got him in school,
why was he given this award.
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Well it says that
because he was the resident
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of the year, the resident
of the year and that was
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one of every year Pedro
that one of this from his
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dean of the dorm,
praise God, the men's dorm,
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because of his behavior
he also received some others
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because he never ever miss
any activity the university,
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praise God and also I
would like to share with you
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a shirt that was
given, alright, to us, please.
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And if anybody any university
teacher any elementary
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teacher is handling
a student with Autism,
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could you please read it
for, okay you said this was a
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Chinese proverb it
says tell me I'll forget,
00:22:07.36\00:22:10.37
show me I may remember,
but involve me and I'll
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understand. By the way
you've proven that to be true,
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haven't you? So
now let me ask this,
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first of all I do want,
we are running out of time
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and I want to give
Pedro a chance to speak here.
00:22:26.82\00:22:31.99
Pedro what are you
studying in college,
00:22:32.02\00:22:34.93
computer
technology, computer technology
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now let me ask you, what
did you, when you are going
00:22:38.08\00:22:40.62
to the Christian University,
what did you like most
00:22:40.65\00:22:43.52
about being on
campus there? A quiet place,
00:22:43.55\00:22:49.03
spirituality and singing
the choirs like God fears,
00:22:51.14\00:22:56.88
one desire gospel
choir, and the understandable
00:22:56.91\00:23:00.59
teachers, wonderful. So
that was a good experience
00:23:00.62\00:23:05.25
for you. Now where you
are going to school now?
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Richland County
Community College,
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alright and when do you
want a graduate from college,
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May 2009, May 2009
that's a good go in computer
00:23:16.28\00:23:20.16
technology. We are excited
and you know that you were
00:23:20.19\00:23:24.01
very blessed to have such
a proactive and loving momma,
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you know that, don't you? Yeah.
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Well now, we know there is
one thing that occurs to me
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before we run out of
time here, you have another
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child and that's Dina,
how has Dina gone through
00:23:43.04\00:23:47.77
all of this, we got a
couple of minutes left,
00:23:47.80\00:23:49.85
tell me about Dina's
journey, yes. Dina was able,
00:23:49.88\00:23:54.27
this is her,
okay, here, pretty girl.
00:23:54.30\00:23:57.45
And she was able to
write down on her own words,
00:23:57.48\00:24:00.68
the title of this
book is in her own words.
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What does it mean to be a
sibling to child with Autism,
00:24:04.21\00:24:07.33
okay? And at the
beginning it was uneasy because
00:24:07.36\00:24:11.49
she was the princess
at home, before Pedro,
00:24:11.52\00:24:16.29
right and she could kill
him if she could, you know.
00:24:16.32\00:24:21.13
But eventually she
became his little teacher;
00:24:21.94\00:24:24.62
she taught him every
concept from colors for numbers,
00:24:25.27\00:24:28.36
she went through the
pain of knowing that neighbors
00:24:28.39\00:24:31.45
were going to tell her we
just want to play with you
00:24:31.48\00:24:33.70
and not with him,
knowing that she was always
00:24:33.73\00:24:35.88
invited to birthday
parties but not her brother.
00:24:35.91\00:24:38.32
She has gone through
the same pain looking
00:24:40.55\00:24:42.15
at me struggling and
telling her like I like here
00:24:42.18\00:24:44.75
on today's days I
am not strong anymore,
00:24:45.77\00:24:47.76
I don't feel life
having for his raise any more
00:24:47.79\00:24:50.03
and even though she is
in the Dominic Republic
00:24:50.06\00:24:52.14
she says you are our hero momma,
00:24:52.17\00:24:53.46
don't give up go
to the universities,
00:24:53.49\00:24:56.01
speak to the
President, that's not the momma
00:24:56.04\00:24:58.38
that raised us, I
know you could do it mommy.
00:24:58.41\00:25:00.80
And she has decided to
study clinical psychology,
00:25:01.48\00:25:04.32
to embrace and help other
children like her brother.
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That is a big praise the
Lord and I know she loves
00:25:08.33\00:25:10.66
Pedro very much and
you know I want to give
00:25:10.69\00:25:14.64
those three, let me
give these three addresses
00:25:14.67\00:25:18.04
again before
we've been out of time.
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And these are
web addresses here,
00:25:20.42\00:25:22.25
if you know someone
with Autism or perhaps
00:25:22.28\00:25:25.68
it's affected your
family you can go to
00:25:25.71\00:25:28.05
www.autismspeaks.org or
to www.autism-society.org
00:25:28.08\00:25:46.55
so that's www.autismsociety.org
00:25:46.58\00:25:51.44
or you can email
Esther Castillo at
00:25:51.47\00:25:55.09
ecastillo1816@hotmail.com
if you have questions or
00:25:55.12\00:26:06.07
need little encouragement
for what's going on in
00:26:06.10\00:26:09.84
your life. Esther if
you had one message that you
00:26:09.87\00:26:14.22
could leave with people
today about being sensitive
00:26:14.25\00:26:18.47
to the needs of
autistic children,
00:26:18.50\00:26:20.98
autistic adults what
would say? I would tell them
00:26:21.01\00:26:24.75
that there is
nothing impossible to God,
00:26:24.78\00:26:28.21
and that God will never
give a child who is so precious
00:26:28.24\00:26:33.96
who is so special and
exceptional to someone
00:26:34.71\00:26:36.06
that he knows that he
went to mistreat that child.
00:26:36.09\00:26:38.51
I would tell the families
of the parents with the child
00:26:39.12\00:26:41.71
with Autism to be
understanding and to be
00:26:41.74\00:26:46.13
a helping hand,
sometimes we need somebody
00:26:46.16\00:26:48.21
who can tell us leave
your child with me just go,
00:26:48.24\00:26:50.08
take a rest and take a
break but more than anything
00:26:50.11\00:26:52.89
I want to make a call
to the university teachers,
00:26:52.92\00:26:55.51
please open the door
to our children after many
00:26:55.54\00:26:58.92
years bringing the
child to a university level
00:26:58.95\00:27:01.67
we need an open door
and in heaven you will see
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the results, Amen, Amen.
Esther Castillo you are an
00:27:05.00\00:27:09.11
amazing woman and I
am so glad that you came
00:27:09.14\00:27:11.60
and shared from
your heart and some very
00:27:11.63\00:27:14.46
practical and
pragmatic advice, and thank you
00:27:14.49\00:27:18.00
so much for being
here today, thank you.
00:27:18.03\00:27:20.17
And Pedro you are a
cutie pie and you are also,
00:27:20.20\00:27:23.88
I'm excited for you
that you gonna be graduating
00:27:23.91\00:27:26.67
in May of 2009,
thanks for coming, thank you.
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Now for those of
you at home I hope that
00:27:30.62\00:27:32.84
you've been encouraged
by today's message to see
00:27:32.87\00:27:35.63
that really truly
nothing is impossible with God
00:27:35.66\00:27:39.64
and it's Pedro is always
God is not given me a spirit
00:27:39.67\00:27:43.05
of fear but a spirit of
power and love and sound
00:27:43.08\00:27:46.24
mind and he is proving
that. Now may the grace
00:27:46.27\00:27:50.06
of our Lord Jesus
Christ the love of the father
00:27:50.09\00:27:52.74
and the fellowship of
the Holy Spirit be with you
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