ODESSA, Texas (KOSA) -It is Autism awareness month, and the Texas Tech Health Science center hosted the Autism Education conference for the first time.
Community members and healthcare professionals participated in this event to learn more about autism spectrum disorder and how it can be treated.
The organizers want to bring awareness of autism spectrum disorder to the community.
This event has been in the works for about a year.
“We need awareness in the community because autistic people live in our community and they have the right to healthcare, they have the rights to go to our store and they have the rights to go to the movie theater, so they have evolving needs in every aspect of their life.” said assistant professor pediatrics Stephanie Villarreal.
The education conference discussed the emerging research and the diagnostic approaches and treatment.
“We want physicians to come here to be able to get a refresher on the best practices for ASD as well as learn about emerging research so that way they can apply it to their patients.” said Event Coordinator Ariel Garcia.
The emerging research about skills and resources needed to provide comprehensive care to people with autism was the biggest topic.
“There is a lot of money being dedicated to Autism and I do think we will see in the future easier ways to diagnose, more accessible healthcare, and potentially better therapies and treatments,” said Stephanie Villarreal.
This was a good opportunity for parents and professional healthcare workers to collaborate and learn more about how to help people with autism.
“Community members that are affected by it come into a room full of physicians with nurses that are dealing with this disorder and create those relationships and dynamics between the community and physicians and hopefully bridge that gap,” said Ariel Garcia.
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