The Tías City Council joins the need to achieve real inclusion by making an "extensive and correct use of pictograms" to facilitate communication for people with Asperger's Syndrome (AS) or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
From the Consistory they explain that this initiative is included in the project "Let's Break Barriers, Accessible Tías" of the Asperger-TEA Islas Canarias association (AsperCan), which aims to "improve access and understanding of the environment for people with AS/ASD based on universal accessibility."
Pictograms and sequences have already been placed in different areas of the municipality, such as the main building of the Town Hall, the Municipal Theater, the Tías Library, the sports facilities and the Social Services building. The placement of these first pictograms has been supervised by the second deputy mayor and councilor of Social Services, Nicolás Saavedra, the councilor of Urbanism, Ulpiano Calero, and the president of AsperCan, Israel Betancort Martínez.
The Tías City Council is "the first public institution to adapt spaces in Lanzarote." "With these actions, Tías is promoted as a benchmark for social inclusion, thus including all people with or without acquired language in communication and, therefore, in social relations," they point out from the Consistory.
The objective, according to the Tías City Council, is to "have an inclusive environment in which processes, services and goods are understandable by and for all people in the most autonomous and natural way possible; thus improving the quality of life of people with Asperger's Syndrome or Autism Spectrum Disorder, being extensible to any person with functional or cognitive disability."
