A Study About Autistic Children’s Social Support Activities Practice And Assessment

Since Leo Kanner’s "emotional communication from shut sexual failure" publishedin1943, the governments and scholars in the world began to recover and increase theattention in the social support of autism. Compared with the developed countries’long-term history in the researching the cause of autism and constructing the socialsupport system, no matter the autistic welfare safeguard system and the social supportsystem is still in a blueprint. For the present, most autisms and their family is still in selfbear and isolated difficulties. The property of Rehabilitation institutions, which is theprivate or the nature, decide that It could not meet the autistic children and families’demand in family support, social support, future settlement, etc.Based on the situation, it is an opportunity in the practice of the Social Work. Ichoose the group social work and the case social work as the main intervention techniques.Through unstructured interview collecting information about the autism children and theirfamilies, try to find why they get into trouble and assess needs assessment. Finally exploresocial work in right model. In the planning of the concrete social support activities, wedevelop a series of social support activities based on the resources what we strive for.Such as: the East lake sea world parent-child activities, the welfare propaganda activitiescaring for autism and Charity and public welfare party caring for autism. Through theconstant feedback from the participants in the activities, to evaluate and analysis theresults of the social support activities, finally draw the conclusion and feasible suggestion.In the process of developing the social supporting activities, according to thephilosophy helping others to help oneself, we change the confusion and dredgepsychological of the autisms’ parents, turn negative to positive to accept the social support.At the same time, the mutual between participants provide a platform and support netbetween the families. Now the families have made a rational understanding to the autism.There is been a huge social response after the successful of the Supporting activities,especially the social promotions activities and autism charity party successfully completed.It has played a important role to construct a acceptance and tolerance of socialatmosphere.