On April 2, International Autism Day, Himalaya and Shanghai Cao Peng Charity Foundation launched the autism care public welfare album "Love Classroom X Cao Er Attached Middle School Note Exchange Project" and "Love Coffee Reading Club", which conveys love with voice and also helps autistic groups to speak out. On the Himalayas, there are nearly 10,000 albums related to autism healing, from many public welfare organizations, volunteers, autistic parents, autism experts, these rich and professional content for autistic patients and families to provide faith support and companionship. Himalaya uses sound to help spread autism knowledge and light a light for the "children of the stars".
Cao Peng, a 97-year-old conductor, has a heart for an autistic child
The autism care public welfare album "Love Classroom x Cao Er Affiliated Middle School Note Exchange Project" launched by Shanghai Cao Peng Charity Foundation comes from its caring for autism public welfare classroom project "Love Classroom". In 2021, "Love Classroom" and Shanghai Caoyang No. 2 Middle School Jointly launched the Weekly Record Exchange Project between students and autistic children in the school, aiming to cultivate children's public welfare and let children make friends with autism students in Love Classroom in their spare time. Now that the children's exchanged weekly notes have been made into an audio program online in the Himalayas, during the epidemic, children can use their voices to convey love, and autistic children can also use the Himalayas to make their voices heard.
(Pictured: Conductor Cao Peng and autistic child)
Shanghai Cao Peng Charity Foundation was founded by the famous 97-year-old conductor Cao Peng and his family, aiming to popularize music education, care for autistic patients, and establish a series of services for autistic families. In another public welfare album launched by the foundation, "Love Coffee Reading Club", Cao Peng personally read selected clips for children. Over the years, Cao Peng has led hundreds of young volunteers to insist on using music to serve autistic children and their families, giving hope to many families on the verge of despair. At the same time, it also calls on more young volunteers to join the ranks of practicing public welfare, helping others, warming themselves, doing good deeds and spreading love, and virtue in the world.
Autistic families huddle together in the Himalayas for warmth
Data show that the number of autistic patients in the mainland currently exceeds 10 million, and the number of autistic children exceeds 2 million. Behind these more than 10 million autistic people are more than 10 million ordinary families. But in our daily lives, it is difficult to see them. Autistic families and families, it is also difficult to find each other in life.
On the Himalayas, a group of autistic parent anchors recorded audio programs to share their children's experiences from diagnosis to "hat removal" (removing the autism label after cure), as well as their own experience and mental journey as parents in the process of family intervention. There is also an autistic parent anchor who runs a column to interview other autistic parent stories he learned through the Himalayas.
Himalayan anchor "Nopa Says ASD" is a father of an autistic child who worked for an automotive consulting and training company in Shanghai. After the child Nono was diagnosed with autism, he quit his job to spend time at home with the child and learned in depth the intervention methods of autistic families. At the beginning of 2019, when the child was diagnosed for about half a year, Nono's father began to open a program "Nono's Father's Autism Recovery Diary" in the Himalayas to share his experience and experience in family intervention for his children.
A big fan of the Himalayas, Nopa initially wanted his shows in the Himalayas to be an outlet for his daily life. When the show continued to receive sympathetic praise from parents and private messages for help, he realized that his companionship experience and intervention experience might be useful to other autistic families.
"Now my child has taken off his hat and is about to enter elementary school this year. I have deeply felt the helplessness of these parents, so I hope that my program can help them. ”
Through the Himalayas, Noda's father met many other autistic parents, and in his album "Autistic Parents Exit Interview Record", he interviewed other parents to successfully "take off the hat" for their children, so as to provide more autistic parents with faith support and companionship.
(Pictured: Nopa and Nono)
"Sound can convey a lot of emotions and make people feel real companionship, which is why I chose to output through the Himalayas." Nopa said.
"Talking about Youyou and Ma Ma" is another Himalayan anchor, she is the mother of an autistic child Youyou. Youyou's mother, who was a partner at a company in Shanghai, was diagnosed with autism when she was more than two years old, and she quit her job to concentrate on spending time with her children.
"I didn't expect such a thing to happen in my own family, and the first feeling was that life collapsed."
After that, Youyou's mother taught herself the intervention method of autistic family on the one hand, and at the same time looked for a professional and effective intervention agency for her children to intervene, and after three years, Youyou has successfully "removed her hat" and entered the kindergarten, and she herself has returned to the workplace
In the early days of the child's diagnosis, when you look up autism-related information on the Internet, you have found experiences shared by other parents in the Himalayas.
"That time was too dark, I hope to help everyone take fewer detours through their own sharing, and also accumulate more merit for their son." (Shared in the Himalayas) Practical experience of autism intervention on the road, lessons of blood and tears, crossing others and crossing themselves. ”
(Photo: Youyou)
Youyou's mother recorded her own mental journey in the podcast album "Autism to Talk, Youyou's Recovery Experience", which has been played more than 30,000 times, and many parents have private messages or messages to ask her for help.
"At present, more than 500 parents have added me, all of them are autistic families, and seeing their collapse and despair, I hope to help them as much as I can." Yu yu mom said.
The child of the Himalayan anchor "Snow Mama Reading" was diagnosed with suspected autism when he was less than two years old.
"Zero language, even mom and dad can't bark, don't play with any children, go out and only look at the wheels and flashing neon lights." 」
Snow mother took her child to a number of autism intervention institutions, the effect is not ideal, she decided to resign to accompany the child to carry out family intervention. After four years of careful companionship by Xue Ma, the child has entered the kindergarten to study in the kindergarten and will successfully enter the primary school this year.
Looking back on the four years of family intervention, Xue Mama lamented that she, like most parents, was in the first six months of the child's diagnosis, "the whole person was completely in the dark and could not see any direction."
"The judgments given by hospitals and institutions, the information on the Internet, and the experiences of parents of other autistic children are complex and give completely different ideas, which need to be calmly sorted out by parents."
(Pictured: Snow Mother's Child)
When the child's condition improved, Xue Mama combed and shared her own mental journey with the Himalayan album "Autism is Not So Terrible: From Diagnosis to Kindergarten Experience Sharing".
"Himalayas have built bridges for different autistic families, and through the show I have met many parents with similar experiences. Parents in this group share common confusion and goals, and by helping each other to grow up, they can more effectively help their children out of the shadow of autism. Snow Mom said.
These autistic parent anchor programs have received many autistic parents to listen to the message consultation of friends, autistic parents through the sound in the Himalayas to connect to each other, hug the group to warm, answer questions, share their own experiences while encouraging and accompanying each other.
Autism healing experience and knowledge dissemination of new frontiers
Over the years, Himalayas has been leveraging multiple forces in various ways, accompanying "children from the stars" with love, and helping to spread the experience and knowledge of autism healing.
In 2019, Himalaya and the China Children's Fund jointly launched the public welfare album "Words to the Stars: Read to Autistic Children", inviting dozens of celebrities such as Li Qin, Zhang Tianai, Sun Jian, and the anchor "Purple Placket with Sound" to read aloud and speak out for love. In 2020, Himalaya and One Foundation jointly launched the "Blue Action" public welfare album "Our Diary", inviting stars such as Sun Yizhou, Dapeng, Huang Yali, Lu Rover and Himalaya anchors to read the stories and diaries of autistic children. In 2021, Himalaya Children's Channel designed a picture book public welfare course for 70 autistic families who will soon graduate from the Beijing Xingxingyu Education Research Institute. Himalayan anchor "Dr. Old Cat" presented the wonderful picture stories of the "Forest Inn" picture book for the children, leading parents to learn the picture book reading method together.
In the Himalayas, in addition to public welfare organizations and autistic parents, there are also many autism treatment professionals who share professional knowledge and intervention methods, such as autism experts at the University of Colorado and Shi Jianli, MD of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The professionalism, depth and companionship of Himalayan audio content contribute to the sharing and dissemination of autism-related experience and expertise, and the audio medium also protects the privacy of autistic families and children. As audio content increasingly permeates people's lives, himalayas are becoming a new frontier for spreading the experience and knowledge of autism.