Autism Club Ernakulam’s desktop calendar for 2026 celebrates creativity of individuals on the spectrum

The pages of the Autism Club, Ernakulam, calendar for 2026, are the benignant that would marque 1 smile. January has a rhinoceros, whose dots person been connected by Liera Correya, 12, who is connected the autism spectrum. The connect-the-dots rhino has a bluish rhino-shaped outline. While March’s squirrel has each the dots neatly connected by Abhishek Ramakrishnan, 25. Twenty-three-year-old Vaishnav Kuttikat’s crab for July is neat arsenic good — the dots link and are shaded with greenish and pinkish lines. The calendar is the enactment of 19 children and young radical who are connected the spectrum. 

“Autism is simply a spectrum, each kid is different. Every twelvemonth we bring retired a calendar showcasing the creation enactment of the much talented among the children. This year, however, Albert Nishal Correya, Leira’s father, enactment distant a proposition that wherefore not fto each the children create, according to their abilities. Rather than prime the much talented ones, fto america admit the endowment successful each children and see each kinds of ‘dot joining’,” says Deepthi Mathews, who is besides a subordinate of the Autism Club. 

The thought took basal determination and grew with Albert providing the dotted pages for the children. “Albert told america to fto the children beryllium led by their creativity. We were not to usher them successful immoderate way, it was to beryllium each the enactment for the children,” Deepthi says. While 12 children and individuals ‘drew’ the pictures, 7 others contributed with the penning — dates, days and months.

Several sheets were handed to them to ‘create the artwork’ that would go the calendar. Deepthi says however the parents loved the idea, it was validation of the creativity of the children. Some of it was messy initially but implicit a fewer tries the children recovered their mode astir it. Deepthi’s son, Sam Varghese rewrote the numbers of the dots due to the fact that helium recovered the font size was excessively small. “It was not astir the cleanable oregon the champion oregon the astir talented, it was acknowledgement that each kid is antithetic and uniquely talented,” she adds.  

Another initiative, supported by the Autism Club is, Ausome Bites, a bakery task which aims to empower and supply vocational skills to radical with autism. The caller calendar is besides aimed astatine acknowledging and encouraging the individuals irrespective of the ‘level’ of their endowment and skills. 

For details about, and to order, the calendar, interaction 9447028367