4.3 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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What is the pandemic like for people with autism? We hear from three parents in Chile, Spain and India who discuss the impact lockdown has had on their children with autism. They explain how their children seem happier away from the social environment of school, but that they are also concerned about the impact on their social skills. Plus, three American editors who work on newspaper pages writing obituaries of people who have died with coronavirus.
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0:00.0 | Hello I'm Nulam McGovern and we're bringing you coronavirus global conversations here on the BBC World Service. |
0:07.0 | As different countries grapple with the devastating effects of COVID-19, we share some of the unexpected |
0:15.8 | outcomes of a pandemic. |
0:17.7 | From Brazilian doctors treating patients who don't believe it's a serious disease, to the |
0:21.8 | parents of autistic children across three continents |
0:24.4 | who have been discovering some of the surprising effects of lockdown on their |
0:28.5 | children's behavior. She seems happier, more relaxed. |
0:33.6 | She's trying new food and new textures. |
0:37.6 | She's happy. |
0:38.6 | Commemmerating the deaths of loved ones has been difficult for many people |
0:46.8 | across the world due to lockdown or restrictions on travel during the pandemic. |
0:51.6 | The sheer volume of numbers, especially in places like Lombardy in Italy |
0:55.8 | which was one of the hardest hit areas of the pandemic. It has made it difficult for journalists |
1:00.4 | to adequately pay tribute to everyone. But here's how one journalist decided to make an impact. |
1:06.5 | My name is Daniel Tayoki and I am working for Laco de Bergamo. When the pandemic overwhelmed us, |
1:15.0 | started following the death notices that arrived on the page of the obituaries |
1:22.0 | and the stories of the obituaries and the stories of the deceded collected from families. |
1:28.0 | We inserted them in a memorial that flows on the site of Leco de Bergamo and on a screen mounted outside the newspaper |
1:39.3 | office. Everyone leaves a photo or a souvenir of written next to the name. |
1:46.0 | In the evenings of March we counted 13 pages of that announcement when there are normally two and half pages. |
1:59.0 | That's journalist Daniela Taiocchi and Daniela mentioned the increasing number of pages there at |
2:05.1 | her newspaper in Bergamo Italy that are dedicated to the death |
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