Interactive center for the development of learning for autistic children and youth in Atlixco, Puebla

Abstract

This work aims to publicize the project of Interactive Center for the development of learning for autistic youth and children in Atlixco, Puebla. Developed in the degree of architecture by student and directed by teachers of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. The research methods used are of a qualitative social nature and multidisciplinary research, since concepts and theories of importance are involved in subjects such as architecture, psychology, pedagogy, psychiatry and sociology. The research began with exploration, with field research within the educational centers, with interviews and life stories of autistic children and adolescents, school administrators, teachers and relatives. In addition, the phenomenological method was used to understand the way of seeing the world of autistic children and adolescents is through subjective knowledge. We proceeded to the explanation of the subject through documentary research, bibliographic, identify the analogous cases, the analysis of the regulations and the development of the project. The first part defines autistic disorder; in the second stage the educational spaces that are responsible for supporting the autistic child or adolescent are described and in the third stage the project is described.