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The Municipality of Mula has installed pictograms in the pedestrian crossings of the Municipality for People with Disabilities (CIPED), to facilitate the identification of actions or signs on public roads for people with difficulties to understand and communicate with written and even oral language.
Among them, people with cognitive or language difficulties such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Asperger's syndrome, intellectual disability or with altered sensory perceptions, or neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's or aphasia among many others.
Pictograms are also useful for young children, older children with cognitive loss and even those who do not speak our language.
All of them require the use of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Systems (SAAC), based on forms of expression other than spoken language: a system of symbols, both graphics (photographs, drawings, pictograms) as words or letters.
The pictograms, placed next to each other and at an easily appreciable size, make it easy for the user to stop first before crossing, look to see if there is any vehicle that may be approaching the crosswalk, check that it has stopped and, finally, Cross in a safe way.
This is a "pioneering action" throughout the Region of Murcia, said the Mayor of Muleño, Juan Jesús Moreno, who has reported that this specific labeling has been prioritized first on school roads and will be added to the other steps of Pedestrians of the town, adding that from the different departments of the City Council of Mula work continues in a coordinated and joint way to eliminate any type of barrier in the Municipality.
The goal is to make the beautiful city of Mula, an inclusive and inclusive city in which no one feels excluded, the first mayor concluded.
This measure, gives greater accessibility, with the particularity that it is a method of communication that is very familiar to people with this type of disorder since in their learning they work with pictograms, but their meaning is easy to recognize throughout the citizenship.
As we have indicated before, "it is not only for people with autism, but for every person, so that they feel safe when it comes to transit through our population."
In the case of people with autism, they process information very well visually, much better than if it is auditory, and if they see it, much more easily they will reach the zebra crossing, they will stop and they will wait to cross until the car is stopped, something that gives them some degree of independence.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mula
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