develop child's strengths, reduce developmental delays and prevent functional deterioration
creates opportunities for strengthening social and self-help skills
designed for active leisure time with parents and peers
educational and support groups to empower parents and offer them support and understanding
a year-long postgraduate functional training for professionals who work in the field of healthcare, education and social services
organised as 4 hours long seminars about key aspects of autism and its interventions
Institute of Autism Spectrum Disorders was established as a private, non-profit institution. Our mission is a comprehensive care for people with autism and their families. We strive to develop diagnostic processes, therapeutic approaches and specific educational and social programs to fulfill the needs of people with autism and their families.
During this period of time we worked on education of diagnostic-therapeutic team, experts of different professional profiles and parents of children with autism. We organized eight international seminars and were included in three major EU funded projects.
Project ZORA - More health for children and adolescents with autism and their families, funded by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism, has begun. The main purpose of our project is to develop therapeutic and educational programs that reduce mental health inequality of children and adolescents with autism and offer much-needed help to their families. We strive to provide a variety of free of charge activities for children and adolescents from all over Slovenia and to best assist parents and professionals who work with them.
We believe the project represents a turning point of the social care of children and adolescents with autism and their parents. We therefore wish and hope the health, education and social policy in Slovenia will support our efforts to continue the program even after the official end of the project.
Doctor of Medicine
Professor of Special and Rehabilitation pedagogy
Psychologist
Psychologist
Nurse
Professor of Pedagogy and Sociology
Institute of Autism Spectrum Disorders
Savska cesta 3
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Institute of Autism Spectrum Disorders
Cankarjeva ulica 33
2000 Maribor
Slovenia