Creating masterpieces during pandemic

Creating masterpieces during pandemic

Impacted by the coronavirus pandemic who may be getting a little overlooked right now...are those with autism....both children and adults....and their families.

Today, news channel two's gary liberatore spoke with a family from oriskany who is..."drawing up a new way of life"...during this crisis.

"gary& yeah thats gary&& thats brian right& hey brian how are you&.

How are you brian g& good good& are you missing getting out of the house& he is&& brian tanner of oriskany is like most 28-year-olds...in that family means everything!

But unlike ((most(( 28-year-olds...he gets to deal with something called autism....every minute of every day.... tc : 17:01 "so bryan, what have you been up to all this time while youre sitting in the house besides yawning& say drawing pictures& drawing picture&" his family says brian ((greatly(( misses attending the fine art program at the arc oneida-lewis chapter in utica...during this pandemic.

He'd normally go monday therough friday.

But now art class is at home...at least temporarily.

He's actually come up with brian's zoo....a collection of his artwork he's been working on this past month.... t: 17:36."bear...a be8 "what el is ibrian zoo tc: 18:0: 19:16 "seeing the things that all the people were posting on their windows and i just came up with the idea of brian loves to draw, hes an excellent artist so we decided to start putting pictures of his animals in the window and brian just took off with it."

And now...the family may have to ask the village of oriskany for a zoning variance...because this 'art gallery' is sure getting a lot of attention.

Tc : 27:42 "finally, any tips for any other families out there who are going through what youre doing, anything youve learned.

I guess establish a routine.

We get up in the morning, he knows what his retainers, he likes to write down what hes going to do every day, it helps him to visualize it, change is ok but at least he has an idea, you know the roine is veimportant."n starts his morning making a list of what to expect for the day starting with number one and big things that are expected throughout the day so weather ll be srting with breakfasand moving ontowalk ando expect for out the day that way if adjustments need to be made he can look at his list and we can add in more numbers&" tc : 30:32 "thank you& thank you for doing this& thank you very much thank you guys ...thanks for reaching out have a good day bye-bye."

Gary liberatore, news channel 2.....'all right...you too...bye bye....">