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The UCAM Astrada and have organized a conference on autism and behavior for the dissemination and exchange of experiences between the experts as among college students, with the aim of developing the training of future professionals and improve their intervention with children suffer from these disorders.

"Autism is still open, with many research possibilities disorder" stressed Maria del Mar Pintado, associate dean of the degrees in Early Childhood and Primary Catholic University of Murcia.

The conference met this morning at the Jeronimos Monastery pedagogues, psychologists, educators and early education professionals, as well as families and half thousand students UCAM to address issues such as intervention in the educational field of children with autism, the use of new information technologies, the positive behavioral support or alternative systems in communication.

In this sense, Soledad Guerrero, president of Astrada, said that the main challenge is to improve the quality of life of people with autism and their families, and that this "must promote psychological educational intervention. If got that throughout the educational stage, training and treatments are appropriate, we will have a better future perspective for them. "

Obtaining the social and labor integration of people with autism is one of the issues raised during the course of the conference, something for which Soledad Guerrero is a must start in childhood "with educational treatments. If we only insertion labor, and in adulthood, it will not be a full social integration. "

This evening will be two new papers.

At 16:00 h, Laura Escribano, director of the association ALANDA, will give a lecture on positive behavioral support, while at 18:30 h, specialists Sandra and Jose Alberto Monseco Diarruyo lecture on applied behavior analysis.

For its part, the journey continues tomorrow with a presentation on alternative communication systems by Lucia Diaz, Director of Special Education Center Christ of Mercy, as well as a round table with the participation Francisco Tortosa, special education school The Boqueras; Nagui Takaoka of Astrada, and M ª Dolores Prison, CIF Director Gabriel Pérez Jail.

Source: UCAM