Due to a growing and desperate need for services and resources in Kwa-Zulu Natal for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (as the majority of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are not catered for in the formal educational setting), TRIAD Behaviour Consultants was launched at the end of 2004. Through intensive therapy, TRIAD seeks to teach and assist children with ASD, facilitating learning in all areas, as well as addressing learning and behavioural difficulties specific to ASD. TRIAD also enhances and facilitates learning and language in children already accommodated in a school setting. TRIAD further offers training for parents; carers; facilitators; and mainstream educators in ASD as well as in behaviour management.
The Therapy Centre caters for 23 children and teens with ASD. At present, the full day therapy centre runs in Pinetown, Durban, providing 1:2 staff to child ratio therapy to children with ASD, ranging from 18 months to 12 years. There is also a Teenage/Young Adult Vocational programme (ages 11 years to 22 years plus) for teens and young adults with ASD from the same premises, as well as a high support behaviour management group for multi-challenged children, most of whom live in a Residential Acre setting.
For more information, contact
[email protected] or call 031 701 7044.