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believe it was diagnosed with autism while still a child. now she's an adapted swimming champion with just like, i don't know if we look back 30 years, someone like julio, being a champion swimmer would have been unthinkable. one of her greatest achievements is to make autism visible. these are people who are capable of achieving whatever the aim for, provided we give them the tools. ah, ah 8th. oh i live in taught molinas and i work at an occupational therapy center. yeah, thats my fate. i really like music and sports either. i'm a swimmer, i swim in the pool and in the c edge, i've done a lot of sports athletic skating horseback riding, paddling bloodying. but i love sports. he may downtown,

love that. but this where they're at the la jolla has spent her whole life doing sports, both adapted and inclusive. and they're both very positive for her adapted sport provides her was learning tools and inclusive role models that big lucille mother who his sister christina has supported her since our kids. a college psychology thesis was on autism. she's currently helping, julio. prepare for her next big goal at the national swimming championships. going 50 meters backstroke one. 0, that's right. it was meant to 50 meters freestyle, one leg was relays, are 2 back stroke. those that are to lancaster back stroke either one, the whole empathy greg, when, when he started competing, there were a lot of things. she didn't understand why i knew about why did things have to be done one way and not another but why wait so long? but i will pick 2 grams really help a lot. so there her way of understanding the world window. piano lessons with one

who are another big help on that front. ah, but little he one law we have it in the when julio learns a new passage, she's very methodical and precise. i don't think sometimes she can concentrate more than other people. yeah. and sometimes when improvising, she has a remarkable sense of rhythm with it. let's do an improvisation example, and how about a song with a black keys? skim glass, glinetta? yes. how about this? 30. 0, you're choosing diagnosis was a tough duluth lawyer, stanley. when that, that he think at dewey hall, when you're told that your child has a disability and that she won't be like the others, you dream that she will be like the others. and inclusion is really happening

through sports in a more autism has many levels. no 2 cases are the same company. at 1st it was complicated because many of the routines were very hard for her, which is why we included it in the therapy. and she's one metals at regional and national championships. but what we really appreciate are the sports benefits for julio lee. it means friends, autonomy and new experiences. and amelia sport helps were to be happy that they bought a family. i knew this has been fully a, gets up at 6 am to attend her training sessions. following routines is very important for her, such as keeping the calendars up to date and organizing all the activities on her agenda. ah ah,

in the morning and in the afternoon, the swimming ah, what the body want me good my goal. oh, oh no, no. we do 50 meters back as to whether abil, francesco medina is julio swimming coach. he used to train spanish olympic medalists that the him, hugging houllier is a completely new challenge. when are you any of the vehicle? i have been at the top of the swimming world for this. and after that, i didn't see myself as qualified to work with someone like hulu, hulu, or ian. but she's now a source of pride and motivation for me, but he more young. what get? well yeah, me the, i'll really gives me something that no other swimmer can give you. it's really special to see someone with all her problems sort of gives you a feeling that it oh, i just can't describe it if it makes my heart to me and don't hear from me like i

so i had don't lack of it. i don't julio. lack of a factor here. no ocoee, not there. yeah, laughlin debrief here. let's do it. think our little wavy here now and i say movie n v n b o n, the county that i want internet modem. i'm considered a very tough coach, but with hulu, it's a different story on, but i have to understand julio, with julio, i need to be blue link comes on her that she loves swimming a few more than the only drawback julia sometimes has. who is that you can't change her routine level when she doesn't swim. one that tells me she's too excited to have. you know, we need to do a lot more work with autism and the water will keep, but with professionals won't allow one at all. on professionally. did i do? well? yes. solomon, you're more than half a bottle. no, no, glad. oh,

yes. now you're already half a bottle. okay, so that's it. yeah, mm hm. you know. swim now that know you're done with swimming, sweetie for you. i know i'm william. yes, i'm wiggling swimming is not the only thing helping. julio. get along in life is also, ah, i o t o o o o, o o therapists, oboski is preparing her for the next championship. will never get the julio has a neuro developmental disorder of the cognitive area affecting communication and social skills. but she learns like you and me, but in different ways. better gonna be on the think i was on when bushel supports are very important, as is working on them beforehand. i mean, if we provide her with the right tools,

she'll be able to cope on if there's no background work done since she is in a permanent state of frustration and alarm billing for food performing a lot of miracle. yeah. hey, here's the preparation that we're going to do before competing is before going to swim, hasn't been, or a few important things. i got from my casa, we bought valdez. i dealt set up a, we can't sit in those chairs, we go directly to the pool for lima. i like the theme. and when we go out to the pool, they don't say hi to the public, but don't say hello, we just go, i'm, i'm in the office and i don't know dealing with normally people with autism or of difficulty with language to operate with expression communication or tonality. they need a speech therapist to work on tonality. they can have more fluid conversation and not gone in the yellow. i was really need oh may i oh go

stairs. i villa. no man guest. well he left both. okay. yeah, i guess dime deed of both. okay. oh yeah, tara, via her is the host of the spanish national championships for adapted sports where julio is participating in a range of races. alberto is the coach of her regional team. will ya, when it out i thought of yes o poses a radical change for julio. another pool, another environments, another locker room, living with a man. plus she's living in a hotel with her colleagues. that's the one that's quite a big change in her routine life. a little bit further, but say i've worked on another model that, that change is something that affects all of us with mom for someone with autism. and the changes in routines mean a very big challenge. yes, by for i don't know so but i went over some day unless fully as daily diary of everything she eats and does is a big help as he's her sister when it comes to choosing from the buffet.

can buy that? i mean, what can i eat without gluten or milk? with sal, lad, ma'am. let's check the desert energy tank honey in the 1st day of competition is always hard for julio. she has difficulty controlling her excitement as easy. now. that the, with the plan that i mean on the availability already on the way from the hotel to the bus only she could think about was a pen dr. one a little bit. and those cases, they have an obsession with an object or situation at that mcclellan bundle, velez julio begins her warm up. and as soon as she touches the water, she's 100 percent focused on the race even opened up in

a fit. think about the movement of your arms and flip very fast. okay. come on. got lots. i'm off and lawyer. yes. let's go with just minutes to go. it's time for julio to visualize the routines and pictograms. she's trained with how about us? ready? renella seated more. yeah, good, let's go home off a warm up. we slowly miserable. mm hm. but i've already called elbows down your head. i dive strongly. ah, he lied. ah, that feed into arms. yes. look up with the impulse and we have to,

i touch the wall. ah, i greet my teammates. we wait for the referee, where we come out on the steps, the championships and with great results, the julio 1st placed in the 200 meters freestar in a 2nd and 3rd place in other disciplines. ah, dang anthony. well, i mean, i've already on this level of qualifying 1st, and 3rd we're talking about the best spanish swim is in her category. a lot of them are through the train is working with julio, the amos to prepare for the next championships, which will be in berlin. and i damn law that live near, i'd like to take her to the olympics and i want her to enjoy it until then. julio will just enjoy the pool and the joyce swimming brings his phony. she's happy and passes that on to others more. oh no, no i. e o both. okay.

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