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Hi, I'm working at a school for children with special needs in Eastern Europe. Education for special education professionals in this region on how to work with autistic children is lacking to say the best. Do you know of training resources that might be available in this area? Specifically - people or organizations that might be able to provide training in how to work with kids who have autism, how to cooperate with their parents, and how to incorporate Applied Behavioral Analysis methods into the cirriculum.

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Hi,

I'm not sure if I can help you with this because I don't speak any slavonic language so I may not be able to do a very thorough search for you as I can only use english language sources.

Would this site be helpful for you ?:
http://www.ceebd.co.uk/ceeed/

(It's some sort of a directory)

on this site

http://www.ditt-online.org/Contacts-2.htm

if you scroll down you'll find the contact adress for Autism Europe who may be able to give you useful information too.

This website could also be of interest:
http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/projects/tacis/case_russia_child_en.htm

(probably not so much its contents as this is about a temporary project it seems) but in the bottom left corner there is an adress of some center "for Curative Pedagogics" in Russia)

I hope I could help,
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Please note I am not a healthcare professional or a doctor.
I cannot provide a diagnosis or give any medical advice.
Therefore I cannot answer questions like "is my child autistic ?" other than by telling you to go and see a specialist
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Please be aware that if you are in the US it will usually take at least 24 hours until I can answer your question, as I'm in Europe and don't have access to my email during the day. I also cannot answer questions concerning the US educational or law system (other than by looking up things on google, but that's probably not the expertise you need), as I'm not in the US.
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Please also be aware that I'm a person with autism. My answers may sometimes be very blunt and direct and I may tell you things you won't like to hear. Diplomacy is certainly not among my talents. I'm never being rude on purpose, and I always try not to hurt or offend people, but it has happened before and may happen again. It's NEVER on purpose. I just want to help.
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What I *can* do for you is gather information on any aspect of autism and therapy of autism you're interested in and give you my personal oppinion about it (if you want to hear it) or, if it applies, tell you about my personal experience. I can answer all questions about what life is like for an autistic person.

I can also answer questions asked in German or French (but will have to answer in English to questions asked in French as my French is a bit rusty).

Ich beantworte gerne auch Fragen auf Deutsch.

Vous pouvez poser des questions en Francais, si cela ne vous dérange pas que je responds en anglais.

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As I'm not doing well right now and am not in the shape of answering questions well - I recieved a few low ratings lately - I'll take a break from AllExperts for the next few weeks/until I'm doing better

I am an adult diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome/High Functioning Autism and ADD.

In the past years I have also read a lot about autism and its comorbid conditions and related subjects (as I am experiencing symptoms of most of these or know others who do) , so I have accumulated a lot of layman knowledge in this area (AD(H)D, Tourette's Syndrome, OCD, sleep disorders, allergies, sensory integration dysfunction, learning difficulties, left/right-brain, giftedness, Irlen Syndrome, prism glasses, executive dysfunction (aka. "inertia"), "special" diets).

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None in the field of autism, apart from being autistic myself !

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