Hanoi to Launch Program to Help Autistic Children

The Hanoi Club for Parents of Autistic Children will join hands with O2TV television channel to organize a meeting and run on April 11 to help autistic children, the Quan Doi Nhan Dan newspaper reported April 2. The program is aimed at improving people’s awareness of ways to help the autistic children, supported them to integrate into the community. Vietnam has warned of increasing numbers of autistic children patients recent years, the An Ninh Thu Do newspaper reported, adding that the Vietnam National Hospital of Pediatrics received 450 children patients in 2007, 963 patients in 2008 and 1,752 patients in 2009. Autism is a developmental disorder that some people are born with, affecting the brain and makes them difficult in communicating and interacting with other people.