Calles said, show there “are so many different types of people on the spectrum, and they’re all different.” “They don’t get the recognition they deserve.” “It’s very special to me because, so many times, kids on the spectrum don’t have a voice and we, as parents, end up being their voice,” she said.
Morgan called it “super duper duper duper duper exciting.” Be safe and happy Autism Awareness Month.” is letting me share an important announcement: If you see someone at risk of falling onto the tracks, please get help immediately. “My name is Morgan Calles, and I am 6 years old. “Hello, passengers,” Morgan says in his announcement. That phenomenon, he said, gave him the idea to pitch the children’s announcements to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York, which was the first agency to broadcast them last April. Trichter said, reciting the familiar warning that plays throughout the city’s subway system. “As a result, it is not unusual for a child in New York City who is on the spectrum to have, as his or her first full sentence, something like ‘Stand clear of the closing doors, please,’” Mr. Many children with autism focus intensely on the technical aspects of trains and buses, subway maps and train schedules, said Jonathan Trichter, a co-founder of the Foundry Learning Center - a school for children with developmental disabilities in Manhattan - and the driving force behind the public service announcements.Ĭhildren with autism also latch onto phrases they hear in spaces where they are intensely focused and use them as some of their first means of communication, Mr. “Bye! Have a good day!”īenjamin and Ellison were two of the approximately 100 boys and girls with autism who recorded public service announcements for the transit systems in New York, New Jersey, the San Francisco Bay Area, Atlanta and Washington, D.C., for April, Autism Awareness Month.Īlthough not every child’s recording made the final cut, the project has aimed to broaden acceptance of children with autism and to give them a chance to have their voices broadcast at train stations, which many of them adore. “Remember to be kind and have a happy New York City day,” Benjamin says. The final version, which he recorded a couple of hours after his bedtime on his mother’s phone, included a cheery sign-off. But he rewrote the script to make it his own. The reason for the poultry-themed salutation? “That past week, we may or may not have had chicken wings,” he explained in an interview.īenjamin Ruiz, 6, was given a template for his public service announcement urging New York commuters to, please, not litter and to keep their hands and feet inside the train at all times. When Ellison Chang, 7, recently recorded a public service message asking New York City subway riders not to hold the train doors open, he added his own personal greeting at the beginning: “What’s up, chicken wing!”
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