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The center was opened on 10/10/2016 according to Ministerial Resolution No. 1340 issued by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security in the Kurdistan Regional Government - Iraq.
Our Vision
To be a distinguished center that includes the best specialists in implementing specialized educational programs to support children with autism and their families, and for the center to gain the trust of parents and relevant authorities as a consulting center specializing in autism in the region.
Our Message
That children with autism be successfully integrated into society by providing effective treatment programs in a holistic manner and focusing our efforts to create community awareness of autism disorder.
Services
Services provided by the Zakho Autism Center
Evaluation Service
The center provides an evaluation service for children who are suspected of having an autism spectrum disorder by conducting a comprehensive assessment of the behavioral, psychological and educational aspects through the application of special standards and tests.
Software Setup Service
The appropriate program is prepared for each case separately, and the different educational training needs are identified. This service is provided for children enrolled in and outside the center.
Rehabilitation and Training Service
Children enrolled in the center are rehabilitated in the social, cognitive and academic fields by qualified trainers.
Speech rehabilitation and Training
Work is being done to develop children's communication skills, both verbal and non-verbal
Individual Session Service
Provides training and rehabilitation sessions (behavior modification, cognitive, academic and speech rehabilitation) for children whose condition is simple or whose circumstances do not allow them to include their child in the center.
Programs
The program on which the center relies in training autistic children Enrolled in the center
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Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) ?
Which is also known as behavior modification. Applied behavior analysis aims to bring about a positive and radical change in all areas of behavior in the child, whether from the social, linguistic, cognitive or academic fields, as well as reducing unwanted behaviors through the use of scientific strategies such as (reinforcement, indoctrination, formation and sequencing).
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The Montessori Program (MP) ?
It is an Italian program that aims to reduce and eliminate the problems of poor visual perception in entering information, realizing the difficulty in perceiving the shape of things in the child, as well as developing manual skills, in addition to teaching the child many cognitive concepts such as perceiving sizes, lengths, colors, and other skills.
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Teach Program (TEACCH) ?
It is a treatment and education program for children with autism and similar communication disabilities. It is one of the therapeutic programs used with children with autism. The most important pillar of the program is educating autistic people through their strengths, which lie in their visual perception, and compensating them for their weaknesses, which is understanding language and the environment. This is done through organizing the environment and using visual aids such as pictures and written words.
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Photo Exchange Communication Program (PECS) ?
It is a program used with children who do not have, as well as cases whose condition does not allow them to be taught to pronounce, and this program helps the child to express his needs, desires, and emotions through the image system, where the child forms a word or sentence through specific images in which he asks for his needs or expresses his feelings and feelings.
Objectives
Goals
Managing a training and educational institution for children with autism.
Increasing community awareness about autism.
Conducting research and studies about autism.
Providing diagnostic services and evaluating cases with autism.
Organizing awareness sessions for parents of children with autism and training them.
Providing educational, psychological, rehabilitative services.
Establishing a library that includes various literature and research on autism.
Work to participate in the development of global information networks dealing with autism.
Supporting local authorities in developing the specialized services needed by people with autism.
Operating a hotline for parents and caregivers of people with autism.
Organizing conferences, training programs and holding seminars related to defining the symptoms of the autism and ways to deal with them.
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