On this week’s edition, Mackenzie Riley & Dylan Hackett present two new segments: first, living and learning with autism, and can we do a better job of dealing with students with mental disorders; and second: is chivalry still alive — and does it matter?
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Please, Use names. Prof Molchanov needs too feel the full weight of that frustration and anxious feelings about what he did/said. This kind of flat out discrimination is unacceptable in any environment but especially in the setting of Post Secondary Education.
Autism is a very broad spectrum of disorders that includes many different syndromes including Asperger’s, and PDD-NOS. The most common of the symptoms of all of the ASD disorders is a delay in ability to socially interact. People with autism don’t read facial expression, or body language. They are easily overwhelmed by sensory input, such as loud classrooms with many students. Smells, sounds, flashing lights can all set someone with autism into a state of anxiousness. It is important that we talk about all this. That we get it out in the open so that we understand the needs and are ready to help those with any kind of social disorders.
Thanks very much for bringing this up on your program.
John