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Air Pollution & Autism
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Autism spectrum disorder is a serious development disorder that impairs the ability to communicate and interact.
A. Background of the Study
- In India, about 1 in every 100 children under the age of 10 suffers from autism and 1 in 8 children has at least one neurodevelopment condition.
- In several studies an association between prenatal exposure to air pollution and risk of developing autism has been found.
- It is also significant that air pollution along with lungs and heart has an effect on brain and can have serious effects on neural functioning in a human being.
B. Aim
To spread awareness about the effect of air pollution in causing autism in children.
C. Objective
- To reach out to special schools and talk to them about the link between air pollution and autism.
- To collaborate with those schools and provide group education and support programs to parents of autistics children about the ill effects of air pollution on the neural functioning of the brain.
- To collaborate with various schools and NGOs associated with autism and inform them about the effect of air pollution on autism.
- To create a parenting group manual which can be utilised by parents especially future parents to make sure they do their best to reduce the chances of giving birth to an autistic child by reducing air pollution.
- To further reach out to normal schools and spread awareness amongst them also, so that they also know the extreme ill effects of air pollution and become more alert towards the same.
D. Target Audience
Special schools, schools, parents in Delhi NCR region.
E. Significance of the Project:
- With the help of this project, awareness will be spread about the effects of air pollution not only on lungs but also on the most crucial part of our body, that is, the brain.
- This will help in reaching out to parents and schools dealing with autistic
- This project may help in a reduction of number of autistics children in future with the reduction of air pollution
- This study may help in implementing some serious policies, especially for pregnant mothers regarding the air pollution around them.
