The Autistic Centre

Can people with Autism be helped?
Specialist education and structured support can really make a difference to a person with autism's life, helping to maximise skills and achieve full potential in adulthood. A new knowledge centre for children with different kinds of learning disability including Autism was set up (under the auspices of DSI in Denmark) at New Horizon Special School in 2002.

The Autistic Centre:

The Autistic Centre opened in 2002 through the help of the DSI-Denmark (The Danish Council of Organizations of Disabled People ). The class has one teacher and two assistants to teach the children.

Methods:

- Individual programmes are worked out for each child, taking their attention spans and ability into consideration.
- Pictogrammes (see photo on the right) are used to show each childs' daily progress.
- Some pupils have improved to such an extent that they can now move on to the next programme when they are told it is time for a lesson change!
- Others can cut and paste, do simple physical exercises, rote count a few numbers, and use the computer in games an painting. In fact, the improvements have been remarkable!

We invite volunteers to assist us provide further special care for these particular children. More information on volunteering here..

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