Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The Autistic Karate Kid Doubted

This, to me, is one of the major reason to be involved in the martial arts. I take my hat off to these two teachers, Javier Carvajal and Frank Pugarita.

Story:
Maryland -- Both 7-year-old Aydn and his mother had doubts about the Gaithersburg karate program, according to gazette.net "I don't want to; it's too dangerous," the autistic boy had said.

Now, Aydn Juarez doesn't want to go home, his mother Sandra says while watching him go through drills with the five other autistic children at the martial arts studio.

His enthusiasm and engagement in the first lessons had surprised them both.

If she could, she would bring her son to class several times a week, another mother said about his son. "It's a function of how much he smiles. Because for a while, he wasn't smiling. Now he smiles all the time," she said as she watched her son with a wide smile of her own. "He just loves it."

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