W\u00eareld-outisme-bewusmakingsmaand en spesifiek W\u00eareld-outisme-dag verlede Donderdag (2\u2009April) word jaarliks herdenk om meer insig oor die outismespektrum te bied. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Twee Weskus-ouers, Petra Fredericks en Gaynor Pieters van Vredenburg, het hul ervaring met Weslander gedeel.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Albei het op ‘n vroe\u00eb ouderdom kenmerke en tekens by hul kinders opgemerk, wat van hul maatjies verskil het. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
S\u00f3 is outisme op tweejarige ouderdom by Fredericks se seuntjie gediagnoseer en Pieters se seuntjie op drie jaar. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Fredericks was sy en haar man kalm n\u00e1 die nuus oor die diagnose.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Toe ons van outisme hoor, het ons dadelik gaan navorsing doen en gesien dat baie van sy karaktertrekke ooreenstem,” vertel sy. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Ons het na ‘n pediater se raad geluister en met terapie begin. Dit was egter nie van veel nut nie, al was ons desperaat om ons kind te help. Namate die tyd aangestap het, het ons elke dag geleer, want alles is moontlik met die hulp van die Here.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pieters meen Suid-Afrika bied nie genoeg ondersteuning vir kinders op die outisme-spektrum nie veral nie met hul spesiale behoeftes nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Ons het in hierdie reis alleen gevoel, veral toe ons seun gediagnoseer is. Niemand het ons gehelp om die situasie reg te hanteer nie. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Toe ons seun met arbeidsterapie by Janke van der Walt begin het, het ons dadelik haar liefde en omgee aangevoel. Sy het ons gehelp en ons so goed as moontlik gelei. Sy speel tot vandag toe ‘n groot rol in ons seun se vordering. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Ons voel sterk daaroor dat die \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Weskus, veral, baie beperk is in ondersteuning, begrip en empatie met kinders met spesiale behoeftes.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
‘Dis nie ‘n skande’<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fredericks deel dieselfde sentiment. “Baie van ons Weskusmense is oningelig oor outisme. Hulle beskou outistiese kinders as ‘mal’ of net stout. Outisme is in hul o\u00eb ‘n siekte. Baie ouers met outistiese kinders is ook huiwerig om met ander ouers met kinders op die spektrum in verbinding te tree. Ons wens is dat die publiek sal besef outisme is nie ‘n doodsvonnis nie en mense met outisme het ook die reg om hulself uit te leef en uit te druk.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pieters se siening oor W\u00eareld-outismedag en -maand is dat dit geweldig met bewusmaking help.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“As ons nog iemand in hierdie lewe kan help of opvoed om ‘n beter toekoms en ‘n vriendeliker lewe vir ons kinders te bou, sal ek bly wees. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Hoe meer mense verstaan, hoe meer kan hulle vriendeliker wees.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Ek glo dit sal ook daardie ouers help wat wegkruip of sukkel om sekere gedrag te verstaan, om hulself op te voed en hul kind so gou as moontlik te help om die regte ondersteuning te kry.”\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy voeg by dat outisme en om ‘n kind op die outisme-spektrum te h\u00ea, geen skande nie is nie.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Hulle is spesiaal, maar tog in staat om hierdie lewe te leef met net die regte hoeveelheid vriendelikheid, veiligheid, liefde, sorg, begrip en ondersteuning.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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