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ORANGE FOUNDATION CONTINUES SUPPORTING CHILDREN WITH AUTISM
Today is World Autism Day. The Orange Foundation and "Arabkir" United
Children's Charity Foundation summed up the results of the project
"Let's Help Autistic Children" in "ArBeS" Health and Day Care Center.
The project aims to improve early detection of autism in Armenia,
to support autistic children and their parents in all related issues
and to implement autism diagnostic and treatment modern tools.
In the scope of this annual large-scale project, launched since 2010,
special courses were organized for the medical specialists directly
involved treatment processes, for the autistic children and their
parents, in order to raise awareness on autism, as well as to implement
the autism early detection modern method - the CHAT test.
These courses aimed to provide a better understanding of autism
to teachers and nurses, to present the symptoms of autism, reasons
for its occurrence, spread, and in particular, to provide general
understanding of psychological characteristics of autistic children,
of the interests typical of these children, as well as of their
concentration, perception and thinking peculiarities. 170 medical
specialists, 340 teachers, 60 parents and 166 children from Yerevan
and Kotayk participated in these courses. In the scope of the project
the rehabilitation centers of "Arabkir" United Children's Charity
Foundation were furnished with special methodical games.
"For already 20 years France Telecom has been supporting the
autistic children in many countries of the world. In Armenia,
the Orange Foundation has been cooperating with "Arabkir" United
Children's Charity Foundation for already 3 years. We are happy for
this partnership, as we are working with real professionals, who have
many years of experience and do their best to ensure that the autistic
children have good childhood and adolescence," said Francis Gelibter,
CEO of Orange Armenia.
Due to lack and load of the special rehabilitation centers, a new
pilot project on community health and education was launched in 2012.
N 9 polyclinic in Yerevan Malatia-Sebastia community was furnished
and equipped with rehabilitation tools, and the whole staff of the
polyclinic participated in special courses organized by the specialists
of "ArBeS" Health and Day Care Center.
In the scope of this project, already for the 3rd time in June-August
months 16 autistic children accompanied by their parents/nurses and
special teachers were hosted by summer recreation camp located on
the bank of Lake Aparan.
In order to better integrate into the society and gain certain
independence, the education of children cannot be limited to
school only. That's why part of the program was dedicated to a
difficult process: vocational education of children with autism. The
French-Armenian educational center was selected as partner. For
the good implementation of this project two Armenian specialists
visited France, in order to get acquainted with the experience of
Rhone professional educations school (SEPR) and to study the model
implemented there. Ms. Marlene Parod, responsible for education
of disabled at SEPR, was invited to Armenia. Two teachers from the
French-Armenian educational center worked at the summer camp during
two weeks, in order to get to know and communicate with children.
On the invitation of the Orange Foundation one specialist of
rehabilitative care and one children psychiatrist participated in
the first international conference "Modern technologies for people
with autism disorders", held in Valencia, Spain. The main objective
of participating in the conference was to get acquainted with the
future technologies, discover new modern tools and analyze the
best tools that can be used in Armenia. The ADOS (Autism Diagnostic
Observation Schedule) method was earlier implemented in Armenia by
Swiss specialists. For its best implementation and accessibility it
was translated into Armenian in 2012.
For the realization of the whole project in 2012 the Orange Foundation
has allotted total 25.869,000 AMD. The project will be continued
in 2013.
16:45 02/04/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/society/view/29488
Today is World Autism Day. The Orange Foundation and "Arabkir" United
Children's Charity Foundation summed up the results of the project
"Let's Help Autistic Children" in "ArBeS" Health and Day Care Center.
The project aims to improve early detection of autism in Armenia,
to support autistic children and their parents in all related issues
and to implement autism diagnostic and treatment modern tools.
In the scope of this annual large-scale project, launched since 2010,
special courses were organized for the medical specialists directly
involved treatment processes, for the autistic children and their
parents, in order to raise awareness on autism, as well as to implement
the autism early detection modern method - the CHAT test.
These courses aimed to provide a better understanding of autism
to teachers and nurses, to present the symptoms of autism, reasons
for its occurrence, spread, and in particular, to provide general
understanding of psychological characteristics of autistic children,
of the interests typical of these children, as well as of their
concentration, perception and thinking peculiarities. 170 medical
specialists, 340 teachers, 60 parents and 166 children from Yerevan
and Kotayk participated in these courses. In the scope of the project
the rehabilitation centers of "Arabkir" United Children's Charity
Foundation were furnished with special methodical games.
"For already 20 years France Telecom has been supporting the
autistic children in many countries of the world. In Armenia,
the Orange Foundation has been cooperating with "Arabkir" United
Children's Charity Foundation for already 3 years. We are happy for
this partnership, as we are working with real professionals, who have
many years of experience and do their best to ensure that the autistic
children have good childhood and adolescence," said Francis Gelibter,
CEO of Orange Armenia.
Due to lack and load of the special rehabilitation centers, a new
pilot project on community health and education was launched in 2012.
N 9 polyclinic in Yerevan Malatia-Sebastia community was furnished
and equipped with rehabilitation tools, and the whole staff of the
polyclinic participated in special courses organized by the specialists
of "ArBeS" Health and Day Care Center.
In the scope of this project, already for the 3rd time in June-August
months 16 autistic children accompanied by their parents/nurses and
special teachers were hosted by summer recreation camp located on
the bank of Lake Aparan.
In order to better integrate into the society and gain certain
independence, the education of children cannot be limited to
school only. That's why part of the program was dedicated to a
difficult process: vocational education of children with autism. The
French-Armenian educational center was selected as partner. For
the good implementation of this project two Armenian specialists
visited France, in order to get acquainted with the experience of
Rhone professional educations school (SEPR) and to study the model
implemented there. Ms. Marlene Parod, responsible for education
of disabled at SEPR, was invited to Armenia. Two teachers from the
French-Armenian educational center worked at the summer camp during
two weeks, in order to get to know and communicate with children.
On the invitation of the Orange Foundation one specialist of
rehabilitative care and one children psychiatrist participated in
the first international conference "Modern technologies for people
with autism disorders", held in Valencia, Spain. The main objective
of participating in the conference was to get acquainted with the
future technologies, discover new modern tools and analyze the
best tools that can be used in Armenia. The ADOS (Autism Diagnostic
Observation Schedule) method was earlier implemented in Armenia by
Swiss specialists. For its best implementation and accessibility it
was translated into Armenian in 2012.
For the realization of the whole project in 2012 the Orange Foundation
has allotted total 25.869,000 AMD. The project will be continued
in 2013.
16:45 02/04/2013 Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/index.php/eng/0/society/view/29488