A Boston College professor is developing a virtual program to help Black youth with autism talk about their mental health.
"The goal of this is, first off, direct exposure to conversations about depression, we lower stigma, the more you talk about it, the less stigmatizing it is," Professor Ed-Dee Williams told WBZ-TV.
"Nothing. Not a single article that specifically examined depression among Black autistic youth," he said. "When you take the experience of being autistic, being disabled, and then you compound that with being Black and discrimination and racism and these different things that we know impact Black youth, there has to be something here," he told WBZ. He took on the research himself and found that there was something there and decided something should be done about it.
The way it works is you choose the symptom you're feeling and practice telling an actor, who's playing a special education teacher with pre-recorded responses, about them. There are different responses. Some are better than others. The program works with you in real-time on finding the best ones until you feel confident telling someone in real life.
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