Lecture #3

On Tuesday the 25th of September we were visited by Denis Sexton of the Irish Society for Autism. Denis' lecture was based mainly on the characteristics of autism and autistic people. He got involved in autism because his son, John, who is 27 years old, has autism. Denis went through the different levels of autism, from where they do not speak at all to where they have only narrow speech. He also listed a couple of obsessions that autistic people may have, like closing doors and gates for example. I really found it interesting to learn about autism. It is something I have heard a lot about in my life but never really knew what it was about until yesterday. He really had an in depth knowledge of autism and really got that across.