Respiro Project
By Project RESPIRO, ANCAAR propose a multipurpose daycare center. The center provides educational services, occupational activities and advice for children and youth with ASD. Also, the center offers counseling services for adults with autism spectrum disorders and their families to maintain a high standard of operating in society.
The main goal of this project is to support people with ASD in improving communication with community members, accumulation of specific skills for everyday life, in preparation for independent living, to identify talents and innate abilities and learning their exploitation. RESPIRO offers the possibility of accessing a higher education degree through innovative pedagogical approach, use therapeutic methods adapted to each individual (I am especially, Denver, PRT, etc) and intensively trained specialists.
By Project RESPIRO, ANCAAR ensure future specialists, the possibility of accessing intrernship and voluntary programs such as family members of persons with ASD, training specialists and students. The center provides training “in situ” or personelor families caring for young people with ASD currently. Also, it provides counseling professionals who come into contact with people with ASD (support group and individual counseling).
Project RESPIRO targeting children and young people with ASD to children aged 3 and 25 years and their families and training of young people specialized in interaction with TSA. The project will involve beneficiaries in the process both theoretical background as well as a range of practical activities, concrete, leading to the accumulation of experience from professionals and families of persons with ASD, and to raise the level of work skills training and life skills to young people with ASD. Adjacent, caregivers will enjoy a piece of free time, While the person with autism is supervised and coached in his condition beneficial activities.
This project is funded by Velux Foundations. More about this foundation, please visit page dedicated funder.
Workshops Program ANCAAR and occupational therapy programs have been shown to have a beneficial development of autism and his family quality of life. Also, all beneficiaries of these programs have progressed at all levels of development and existential problems were solved for them.
More, by Project RESPIRO is proposed and a group of professionalization of youth with ASD. As yet there is no such initiative, autistic in Romania can not engage in any profession ( there is currently no special courses for people with autism).
All these initiatives have one target: creation of an independent person with autism, from autonomy, to financial independence.
The project is the first of its kind in Romania and in addition to experience and information to accumulate and disseminate, is configured as a pilot project that could be replicated in the future by ANCAAR affiliates and other NGOs and other institutions active in the social sector, offering training sessions for future professionals TSA or volunteers involved in this sector.
