Autism To Artism: These Face Masks Are Expanding The Horizons For Autistic Children
by The Daily Eye Team July 2 2016, 10:58 am Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 24 secsWhen Parasuram Ramamoorthy, a theatre specialist, heard the word autism for the first time, he misheard it as ‘artism’. That was happenstance with a purpose, because from then on art has been changing the lives of many children with autism. Neurologists across the world are trying to solve the three biggest challenges of autism – the inability of autistic children to make eye contact, their short attention span and their lack of empathy.