ranchi to educate children parents and locals about autism a developmental disability the state disability commissioners office in collaboration with the women child development and the social security department conducted an awareness programme on wednesday to mark the autism awareness day april 2 experts state that people with autism spectrum disorder asd struggle with social communication and engagement as well as confined or repetitive behaviours or hobbies they may have unique learning movement and attention stylesthe assistant director social welfare women and child development department kanchan singh said autism has a prevalence incidence of about 06 awareness might help the child develop socially and interact with othershead of the department of psychiatric social work at ranchi institute of neuro psychiatry and allied sciences rinpas dr manisha spoke about the symptoms of autism and topics of life skills and skill training for children suffering from autism to live a comfortable life she said people are reluctant to discuss autism due to a lack of understanding autism sufferers should not be subjected to any form of discrimination nor should the general public be ignorant of neuropsychiatric conditionshomoeopathic physician dr rajeev kumar said autismafflicted children should be encouraged to interact with others as they are socially isolated and hesitant to discuss their problems to assist them we should give them affection with emotional support