{"id":5062,"date":"2014-04-28T06:32:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T06:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=5062"},"modified":"2015-04-30T06:35:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T06:35:36","slug":"all-families-must-have-access-to-autism-treatment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/tahun-2014\/april-2014\/all-families-must-have-access-to-autism-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"All Families Must Have Access To Autism Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Ftahun-2014%2Fapril-2014%2Fall-families-must-have-access-to-autism-treatment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=5062&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"newsitem_tools\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_info\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"createdate\">MONDAY, 28 APRIL 2014 08:37<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsitem_text\">\n<div class=\"news_item_article\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2014\/AutismaRosma1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin<br \/>\nPix Ikhwan Hashim<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PUTRAJAYA, 22 Apr 2014 \u2013 \u00a0All families with autistic children must be given access to quality, affordable health care and services to deal with the mental disorder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The prime minister&#8217;s wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor said such a strategy must include input from researchers, policymakers, educators and caregivers to cover a wide range of issues, including training of skilled personnel such as psychiatrists, psychologists, paediatricians, therapists and early interventionists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the International Seminar On Autism Malaysia 2014 organised by The National University of Malaysia (UKM) and <em>Autism Speaks<\/em> here today, Rosmah said educators and doctors need to learn, understand, practise and share intervention approaches that will enable individuals with autism to best cope with their condition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rosmah is the patron of the seminar which was opened by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said parents of children with autism must be empowered to encourage their afflicted children to achieve their fullest potential.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rates of prevalence of autism reported in developing countries could be due to ignorance or lack of awareness while such rate in Europe and the United States is currently just 1% of the population.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Researchers found that more than one in three adults having Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have no opportunity to further their education or being employed for the first six years after high school.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin who is also the Education Minister and wife Datin Seri Noorainee Abdul Rahman were present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rosmah said the seminar was designed to include topics ranging from the epidemiology of autism, service provision, early detection and diagnosis, state-of-the-art intervention as well as best practices in public health for ASD.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two-day seminar themed &#8216;Autism is not a Tragedy, Ignorance is&#8217; comes under the ambit of the \u00a0Permata Programme of which Datin Seri Rosmah is a patron.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She expressed her gratitude to the First Ladies of Sudan, Sri Lanka, Kyrgyz Republic, Albania and Morocco for taking time to attend the seminar and share their experiences on autism in a special slot called \u201cVoices of First Ladies\u201d.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONDAY, 28 APRIL 2014 08:37 By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin Pix Ikhwan Hashim PUTRAJAYA, 22 Apr 2014 \u2013 \u00a0All families with<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/tahun-2014\/april-2014\/all-families-must-have-access-to-autism-treatment\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5065,"parent":1110,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5062","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5067,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5062\/revisions\/5067"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}