During April, 100 kids’ voices have been heard by public transit riders in the Bay Area, New York City, New Jersey, Atlanta, and Washington D.C., through a project aimed to promote acceptance of au…
On Sunday night, Goyo Alvarez stood on a BART platform with his mom, Julie. They were inches away from the rushing trains — but the Alvarezes weren’t there to board one. Instead, they were listening for Goyo’s voice, which has been echoing across the Millbrae station every half hour of every day for Autism Awareness Month this April.
“Kids on the spectrum can become intensely focused on feats of mechanical engineering that we encounter everyday, like subway systems and trains,” said Jonathan Trichter, who began the project after a pilot with the New York City’s subway system last year. “Transit workers around the world — including at BART — are familiar with seeing these kids dragging their families on joy rides to nowhere, or asking transit workers complex questions that will completely stump them.
He began the project by going on Facebook, and posting in forums for children on the spectrum in major cities across the United States. Within four or five hours, he said, he had a few dozen respondents — including Julie Alvarez in Redwood City.
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