SchaferAutismReport: Putting Faith Into Practice For Autistic Kids

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Putting Faith Into Practice For Autistic Kids

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Sometimes, when the choir sings, Aubree

Canonizado throws her head back, closes her eyes and lifts her hands to the

heavens.

At those moments, her father believes,

she's sharing a moment with Jesus.

" Jesus didn't shun anybody. He migrated

toward people who needed him, " said Canonizado, a resident of Mechanicsburg,

a few miles west of burg across the Susquehanna River. His daughter

Aubree is autistic. " Everybody needs to know Jesus loves them. "

Jesus loves them, but the person in the next

pew might struggle. Children with autism sometimes exhibit behaviors people

don't normally see in church. They yell, flap their hands, talk nonstop about

one topic, have inappropriate contact with strangers, throw tantrums and

behave unpredictably. Some are sensitive to light, noise, crowds and change.

With autism dramatically on the rise, the

religious community is seizing an opportunity to reach out to families with

autism, said Christensen, author of " The Jewish Community Guide

to Inclusion of People with Disabilities. "

" This isn't about them and us. This is

us. This is all of us, " said Christensen, program manager of the Jewish

Community Inclusion Program for People with Disabilities in Minneapolis.

Christensen tells of adults who longed to take

part in religious life for decades, but never felt welcome. " It's their

birthright, " she said.

" A faith community should be the first

place people turn to. You look at the tenets of Judeo-Christian, Muslim

religions. " Christensen said. " Abraham and welcomed the

strangers. He washed their feet, feeding them, serving them, not patronizing

them. "

Autism can isolate a family.

Anne Platt doesn't even try to take her son

, 10, to church anymore. She and her husband, , attend Good

Shepherd Church in nearby Camp Hill with their other children, one parent

staying home with while the other worships.

" I can't think of my son first. As

Catholics first, that's our worship and that's a very sacred thing, "

said Platt, of Mechanicsburg. " My son is not going to benefit

spiritually from being there, so I feel it's not fair to me to put that on

someone else, to detract from their experience so my son can be physically

present in the church. "

would spend the entire service singing,

talking, running through scripts and getting into other people's personal

space, she said. Taking him to the church cry room just sent into

sensory overload, she said.

She would love to go to church as a family,

especially at the holidays, but Easter and Christmas, with their packed pews,

are especially bad times for .

It's all about juggling the needs of one group

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