{"id":20407,"date":"2020-12-21T16:46:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T16:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=20407"},"modified":"2020-12-21T16:46:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T16:46:31","slug":"awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician","title":{"rendered":"Awareness of autism in children increasing, assures pediatrician"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – Tanzania<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>AWARENESS about autism in children has been increasing year by year among members of the public, a move that helps in addressing the problem, a Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (Muhas) paediatrician, Dr Edward Kija has said.<\/p>\n

He said parents and members of the public at large had been getting to the bottom of the problem year after year and it had been easier for doctors and other health professionals to offer services to victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember in the past years when you asked parents whether they knew about autism, most of them knew nothing, but thanks to the government and stakeholders who have helped in the provision of education,\u201d Dr Kija said. He said this in Dar es Salaam at the weekend.<\/p>\n

The event brought together children suffering from autism and their parents.<\/p>\n

The gathering at Mlimani City Mall, where the children and parents later went for watching movie together, was coordinated by Lukiza Autism Foundation.<\/p>\n

Dr Kija said children with autism tended to play separately from other children, therefore, bringing them together helped them to build competency and relationship with others.<\/p>\n

Lukiza Autism Foundation Executive Director Hilda Nkabe said they had organised the gathering of children with autism and their parents as part of celebrating this year\u2019s Christmas season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Tanzania. AWARENESS about autism in children has been increasing year by year among members of the public, a move that helps in addressing the problem, a Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (Muhas) paediatrician, Dr Edward Kija has said. He said parents and members of the public at large had been getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,16],"tags":[6990,711],"class_list":["post-20407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press-2","tag-tanzania"],"yoast_head":"\nAwareness of autism in children increasing, assures pediatrician - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Awareness of autism in children increasing, assures pediatrician\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press – Tanzania. AWARENESS about autism in children has been increasing year by year among members of the public, a move that helps in addressing the problem, a Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (Muhas) paediatrician, Dr Edward Kija has said. He said parents and members of the public at large had been getting […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-12-21T16:46:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img-5fe0ba266f095.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"701\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Awareness of autism in children increasing, assures pediatrician\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-21T16:46:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician\"},\"wordCount\":225,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img-5fe0ba266f095.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"tanzania\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\",\"homepage-english\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician\",\"name\":\"Awareness of autism in children increasing, assures pediatrician - Tanzania\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img-5fe0ba266f095.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-12-21T16:46:31+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img-5fe0ba266f095.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img-5fe0ba266f095.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":701,\"caption\":\"Awareness of autism in children increasing, assures pediatrician\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Awareness of autism in children increasing, assures pediatrician\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/\",\"name\":\"Tanzania\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Awareness of autism in children increasing, assures pediatrician - Tanzania","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Awareness of autism in children increasing, assures pediatrician","og_description":"Africa-Press – Tanzania. AWARENESS about autism in children has been increasing year by year among members of the public, a move that helps in addressing the problem, a Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (Muhas) paediatrician, Dr Edward Kija has said. He said parents and members of the public at large had been getting […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician","og_site_name":"Tanzania","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2020-12-21T16:46:31+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":701,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img-5fe0ba266f095.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Awareness of autism in children increasing, assures pediatrician","datePublished":"2020-12-21T16:46:31+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician"},"wordCount":225,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img-5fe0ba266f095.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","tanzania"],"articleSection":["all news","community","homepage-english","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician","name":"Awareness of autism in children increasing, assures pediatrician - Tanzania","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img-5fe0ba266f095.jpg","datePublished":"2020-12-21T16:46:31+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img-5fe0ba266f095.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/12\/img-5fe0ba266f095.jpg","width":1024,"height":701,"caption":"Awareness of autism in children increasing, assures pediatrician"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/awareness-of-autism-in-children-increasing-assures-pediatrician#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Awareness of autism in children increasing, assures pediatrician"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/","name":"Tanzania","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}